Even if it didn't happen, the fact that it easily could is what should've been scary to the Cathy Young's of the world. This is the kind of complacency that gives the MAGA insurgency room to breath. Until Cathy and others understand that the *only* platform the GOP has right now is *keeping dems out of power and punishing them when in po…
Even if it didn't happen, the fact that it easily could is what should've been scary to the Cathy Young's of the world. This is the kind of complacency that gives the MAGA insurgency room to breath. Until Cathy and others understand that the *only* platform the GOP has right now is *keeping dems out of power and punishing them when in power*, they will keep giving the MAGA insurgency the room it needs to breath via the selling of doubt. This is a lot like the people who defended the tobacco companies because they were so complacent about greed. "The free market could do no wrong" these people thought--until proven horribly wrong. This is the same kind of complacency and wishful thinking about the MAGA insurgency. MAGAs want to end democracy and either displace or kill liberals so that they can have their own little white conservative jesus country that they've wanted since Reagan. They're just not hiding it anymore.
I think this is the problem. People presume that these awful things cannot happen because they lack sufficient imagination. They do. Every day they do.
Our laws should work to support the victims of those things maximally.
Back when I was a progressive, the one thing I respected about conservatives was that they generally understood just how fucked up man is. The irony is that they wanted the least amount of government to control the men they understood to be fallen. It's like making sure the leopards eating people's faces had the longest leash humanly possible while understanding that leopards eat people's faces. Our laws should keep the leopards on a short leash--especially the most powerful ones. Instead we worship the leopards and try hard as shit to be just like them because we think we have a chance at becoming leopards some day too. We never will. Not at this rate. Our kids will just lose their faces too.
Even if it didn't happen, the fact that it easily could is what should've been scary to the Cathy Young's of the world. This is the kind of complacency that gives the MAGA insurgency room to breath. Until Cathy and others understand that the *only* platform the GOP has right now is *keeping dems out of power and punishing them when in power*, they will keep giving the MAGA insurgency the room it needs to breath via the selling of doubt. This is a lot like the people who defended the tobacco companies because they were so complacent about greed. "The free market could do no wrong" these people thought--until proven horribly wrong. This is the same kind of complacency and wishful thinking about the MAGA insurgency. MAGAs want to end democracy and either displace or kill liberals so that they can have their own little white conservative jesus country that they've wanted since Reagan. They're just not hiding it anymore.
I think this is the problem. People presume that these awful things cannot happen because they lack sufficient imagination. They do. Every day they do.
Our laws should work to support the victims of those things maximally.
Back when I was a progressive, the one thing I respected about conservatives was that they generally understood just how fucked up man is. The irony is that they wanted the least amount of government to control the men they understood to be fallen. It's like making sure the leopards eating people's faces had the longest leash humanly possible while understanding that leopards eat people's faces. Our laws should keep the leopards on a short leash--especially the most powerful ones. Instead we worship the leopards and try hard as shit to be just like them because we think we have a chance at becoming leopards some day too. We never will. Not at this rate. Our kids will just lose their faces too.