The white supremacy industry in America with a healthy fundraising and publishing arm stood right beside him giving him talking points and a twisted history to justify his rage...
It simply isn’t enough to say we have to “rid America of the scourge.” The individual has to end his complicity with the collective, withdraw from the context of patriarchal tribalism, and re-create himself as a founding member of collaborative holism.
Good luck accomplishing that. Please explain how you will, or I can, but not "they" or "them" or "congress", none of which exist in the real world we inhabit.
Morning in America! In a crimson red state. The restaurant is abuzz; the line is long; the unavoidable murmur of conversation both strangely cheery and happily delusional, as one would imagine in the cafeteria of the local looney bin. A curious study of subhuman behavior in the wild. Bite your tongue. Too early for this shit...
The average, indigestible Republican voter/hater/liar persisting in power, clogging the pipes of representative democracy despite repeated flushing, is wrong on: the fundamental purpose of government; true history and the proper education of children; religion and morality; crony capitalism and wealth disparity; crime and punishment; war and peace; science and climate destruction; health and happiness; just about everything from sunup to sundown... even what to order for breakfast. (Try the veggie omelet with egg whites and nondairy cheese instead of the "meat lover's platter" loaded with lard and cholesterol.)
Regardless of whether racism and all of the other exploitable bigotries were started by the morbidly rich, they have certainly learned to use them to manipulate the poorly educated. Thom has listed the accessories to these crimes (and countless others), and for the most part, they have aided and/or abetted because the morbidly rich told them to if they want to keep their jobs. Imagine that you learned to be a racist because you are the victim of a shitty education and that you crave membership in your cult. What would you think if there was irrefutable proof that racism or the other otherisms, are bullshit concepts grounded in greed and perpetually propagandized to frighten and enrage you? What if you’re a racist and viscerally believe that murdering black people at a grocery store is the right thing to do, could you ever acknowledge that you’ve been flimflammed by the very same morbidly rich sociopaths who make you vote for the same kakistocratic corporate whores every cycle? How do you teach someone who doesn’t want to learn that they are wrong? Especially those who willingly offered their unquestioning loyalty to the biggest asshole that has ever lived. Fix what we can and endeavor to teach kids to be passionate learners and not racists.
Pointing out objective truth -- available to all sentient beings nowadays at their fingertips if they choose to look -- is an effort largely wasted on wingers who instead choose ignorance and lies as a political strategy, clinging to power to force their unpopular, whacky belief systems onto everyone else.
Make no mistake, politics is all-out war by a different name (hopefully peaceful and lawful), and intractable enemies don't normally moderate their views much unless they absolutely have to: when outside forces utterly defeat them, or if they have a great epiphany and change of heart, remotely possible but highly doubtful. Fascists reserve their deepest hatred for liberals, whom they consider traitors to God and country and all that is decent and good... and (mainly) white.
For true progress to have a chance, the good citizens must wholeheartedly reject conservatives' dangerous, twisted nonsense at the ballot box in large enough numbers to overcome their longtime efforts to steal elections, of which they accuse Democrats -- a lame attempt at turning the tables to confuse voters. Recent polling has about 55% of mainstream Republicans believing in some version of the different evolving QAnon conspiracy theories and over 75% convinced Biden stole the election.
Whew! That's huge! If anyone is in need of replacing, it's these goofy mf'ers!
OK Scariest heard today. Miles Taylor, fmr Chief of Staff, Homeland Sec. on MSNBC "GOP on Defense over Replacement Theory" segment, maybe this is a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjiRrOFGmI "...Extremely hard to de-program..." millions...
turning to violence....We are past any tipping point where McConnell or McCarthy could re-leash the dogs if they tried. I don't know how what's her name moved on to next "guest." I'm sorry, but I am going back to my forest hideout and just hope it doesn't burn.
The weekend was gruesome coast-to-coast. What's with Thom's "dislikes?" Did I just never notice before? I've already registered my two cents that Kyle Rittenhouse will kill again. Wasn't a congressman offering him an internship? When his 15 minutes are up, he'll get itchy. I saw a good YouTube post: white 18-year-old with AR-15 is a "kid." Black 18-year-old with a bag of candy is a "thug." Yup. That's where we are.
just caught a clip of Tucker calling Buffalo shooter "mentally ill." That's the point of observing the frequency: the very ones most guilty of egging the slaughter on are still trying to brush it off as "lone-wolves."
After Bacon's rebellion in 1676 where European indentured servants joined forces with black slaves the elites have worked to insure that this would never happen again. The enacted the pass laws and slave patrols and enlisted dumb white settlers to provide free labor. President Lyndon Johnson put it best when he stated “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better off than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
White workers have had their standard of living erode over the past 40 years to the point where their life expectancy is declining. The response of many has been to buy more guns and support billionaires for public office. Critical thinking is largely absent from the American public.
If I was graduating from high school today I would be deciding to which country to emigrate and begin my adult life.
There's little discussion of the fact that the shooter survived because the cops talked this 18 year old white boy into surrendering instead of suicide. It's their job, but the rest of what I have to say about that is unseemly, and I won't go there. I suspect there were more people standing beside him from his home. If the reports are correct, his father bought him a rifle at age 16. This has been a factor in other cases.
It is never one thing, just as Thom has pointed out. It takes a dysfunctional village.
I've read your reply 4 times and while I love the humor, I really cannot find anything to argue with. You nailed it.
As my wife said yesterday, she knew humanity was doomed when she read the writings of John Muir, and the public response, which was "This fellow is interesting and probably correct but right now I need to go pave the back 40 to build a subdivision".
what i'm sitting with ... "In the end, white people all stand right beside the Buffalo Terrorist if those of us with that white privilege don’t push with everything we have to rid America of the scourge of racism and the big money and death-dealing industries that support it."
OK, I've heard all this stuff before. The bottom line is we can spend massive amounts of money to detect most white supremacist terrorists in the years while they are still carefully planning their terrorist attack. We can do a lot to protect citizens as well. However, if we simply get rid of all guns that are useless for self defense or hunting, we eliminate 90% of the problem.
Right, it would require a congress and voters. Actually, we do have a congress, it's just not been seen or heard from for about 50 years. I had this discussion yesterday with a family member. She kept saying people don't vote because congress ignores what voters want. I pointed out that the only way we can change it is voting. Not sure where to go next, we are both right.
I like a friend's idea, make it simple, vote against 100% of everyone we can vote for every time. Then they CAN'T get entrenched.
The geriatric squads running the asylum need to be "replaced" by younger, fresher minds. "Old [politicians] never die -- they just [wear out]." Apologies to General Douglas MacArthur.
I like my wife's idea. We replace all elected officials with civil servant. Anyone who wants takes a test, and the highest score gets the job. We'd get some bus drivers, welders, sex workers, who knows - certainly people more representative of society than corrupt millionaires.
Once APPOINTED as a member of congress for scoring highest, they get to work.
Members of congress do a simple job.
1. Manage a website that is a list of things Americans want done. They can suggest what they think are most important, but must include in the list the top 10 issues posted by citizens. Let's say 10 items they recommend, and 10 we recommend.
2. We the people rank the 20 items. We simply select from two choices "do this" and "erase this".
3. Congress posts the top 10 choices.
4. We rank them again.
5. Congress researches the top three issues and posts a least three solutions for each but no more than six ideas, including the cost and duration of each solution.
6. We the people vote on the proposals, "Yes", "No", or "Propose other solutions"
7. Congress pursues the ones we select.
8. When an issue is fixed, they post solutions for the next issue on the list.
For the executive branch, same thing. Swap out presidents annually, and give them virtually no power, so whoever won the seat can be honest. All we need the president to do is keep us informed.
The corrupt SCOTUS needs serious change. We remove all decision making. They are no longer allowed to create laws or pervert laws or destroy laws for a bribe. Instead, their role becomes commenting on laws to congress, explaining what they see as an issue and making recommendations for congress to re-write the law, which congress can do, but of course final approval would be via citizen votes.
To compliment this, since it's our money, we should be allowed to vote on line items, we pay whatever taxes we owe, but we get to direct where it's spend. For example, I might direct all of mine to non-war issues, while maybe you ONLY want to help schools, and another person might want to direct all of their taxes to pointless, endless wars. We deserve to control our own spending.
Certainly the process of legislation is as important as the intent if desired results are expected; that is, if the blue wave is huge enough to flood the zone with enough true-blue representatives who have their hearts in the right place and their heads screwed on straight.
Though it's nearly impossible to accomplish a damn thing when, for instance, consolidated and corporatized Big Media have convinced a lethargic public that it's -- OH MY GOD! Screaming chryons! -- shock-and-awe breaking news that only one percent of Democratic Senators (Manchin and Sinema) are thwarting progress. While it's so ho-hum, just more of the same, such a boring state of affairs to report that 100 percent of Republicans -- in both houses of Congress -- thwart meaningful change at every opportunity with every breath and have been doing so right out in the open for decades. Look over there, not here. Simply shocking, I tell you!
Well said. The underlying problem is the corrupt SCOTUS legalizing judges and other politicians selling decisions, votes, and influence to the highest bidding citizen in 1976, then when that brought in truckloads of bribes, the corrupt SCOTUS legalizing judges and other politicians selling decisions, votes, and influence to the highest bidding CORPORATION in 1978, then when that REALLY increased their bribes, the corrupt SCOTUS legalized SECRET purchasing of judges and other politicians in 2010, which allowed foreign governments to buy.
Just yesterday, yes yesterday, the corrupt SCOTUS legalized judges and other politicians OPENLY selling decisions, votes, and influence by allowing anyone who wants to own them to reimburse money they spent on themselves AFTER being elected. It's a wonderful new addition, you can purchase the winner AFTER THEY WIN, which is WAY more cost effective because the money goes right into the pocket of the judge or other politician you purchase. That's WAY more cost effective than betting on victory.
My investment company either created or pushed the creation of financial instruments that several a direction in market move.
I told my investment company to look into creating a financial instrument to purchase our entire government, then we voters could earn $2,500 per dollar invested like other investors.
Hopefully that will change in these next two election cycles, but it's doubtful. (Pardon the understatement.) Congress requires voters who are informed by their hearts as well as their heads.
I think it will change. I expect a blue tsunami this fall.
If we don't see a blue tsunami, we might as well give up.
I know plenty of people who have given up. Their point is after Nixon, ReaganBush, CheneyBush, and TrumPutin OPENLY committed felonies and slaughtered innocent people, congress did nothing, and voters didn't vote them all out of congress, the 5% of us who seem to be awake really are wasting our time. Might as well go straight to feudalism and let all these people be owned by whatever trillionaire buys the land they live on.
Our country, and the world, is already in the throes of the modern-day incarnation of feudalism, the never-ending story of a cage full of screeching, shit-flinging monkeys with loaded guns fighting over bananas. Sometimes, even Mother Nature gives up. It's called extinction.
Hey Thom. Your approach raises all kinds of questions, namely should vert complex moral matters be summed up in simple binary terms? This kind of rhetoric simply allows a good versus evil conclusion and a strict binary to our very complicated social problems. Take Chicago for example, the Democrat super majority in Chicago has been in total control for a century. Using your logic they therefore must be responsible for all the social decay of the City Chicago has been deemed the country’s most corrupt city. The fact is, the Democrat super majority Party stood right by the side of all those that have given the city this title. This fact is axiomatic, since the vast majority of the corruption has been done by Democrat politicians. For the facts, read the following report by University of Illinois at Chicago professor and former Ald. Dick Simpson. https://pols.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/273/2021/02/Corruption-Spikes-in-IL-Anti-Corruption-Rpt-13-final2.-1.pdf
Using your approach, can I conclude that the Democrat super majority in Chicago has stood right beside all those democrat politicians that have demoralized the city’s law enforcement? The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) shows a 45% increase in the retirement rate and a nearly 20% increase in resignations in 2020-21 compared to the previous years.
The same Democrat super majority stood right beside all those politicians that established a weaker criminal court system and watched an enormous flow of illegal guns into the city. Because democrats have controlled all the levers of power, they must certainly bear all responsibility for all the spikes in violent crime. Indeed, Chicago democrats oversee a crime rate of 3,926 per 100,000 people. That’s 67% higher than the national average.
The logic allows me to conclude that the Democrat super majority has stood right beside the criminals that have perpetrated 230 vehicle thefts, more than 75 burglaries, 55 aggravated batteries, 110 robberies, 76 criminal assault just in the 18th district just this year.
The Democrat super majority also stands right beside those that live in two adjoining Garfield Park neighborhoods and watch while the crime rate is 462% above national average. In East Garfield Park crime rate is 308% above national average. These are just two of dozens of neighborhoods with abhorrent crime rates.
The Democrat super majority stood right beside those that committed more than 800 homicides in 2021, a level not seen in 25 years. This same Democrat super majority stood right beside those 264 shooters on the Chicago-area highways last year. Out of those 264 only 22 resulted in an arrest.
The Democrat Party stood right beside all those corrupt political decisions that pushed the city’s liabilities to more than $48.billion. The City now only has $9.9 billion of assets available to pay bills. This means a Democrat supper majority stood right beside all those in the party allowing the city to be buried in the $38.7 billion financial hole. To erase this shortfall, each Chicago taxpayer would have to send $43,100 to the city.
These are just a handful of the problems that have made Chicago the most corrupt city in the country. And no doubt, the Democrat super majority has stood right beside all those that have mismanaged all the City’s financial responsibilities. They have raised taxes and dissuaded countless businesses to take any risks in any of the areas of the city. They stood right by all political regulators that have created massive bureaucratic agencies and stood right beside all democratic super majorities that have rigged the size and dimension of the cities wards. They’ve contributed to all the chaotic power of the aldermen and women , allowing them to retain control and wield power without little, if any accountability.
The dire list of issues could go on forever. But if we apply your rhetoric we can level all the blame on the Democrat super majority Party. That party simply stands right beside all the corruption and watches while the City plummets into a collective demoralized social reality. With your logic it’s a simple conclusion: we should level the entire guilt onto the entire Democrat super majority. They continue to stand right beside all this that have issued all this destruction.
I suppose leveling singular blame for all the problems of an entire city is easy, and acknowledging that the problems are overwhelmingly complex is just too demanding. But your approach does exactly the same. You’ve reduced an overwhelming complicated problems to the most simplest conclusions regarding race and privilege. Your words simply denote that one entire race and one political party are to blame for an insane terrorist that enacted terrible mayhem and premeditated mass murder.
Such a rhetorical approach dumbs down the complexities. Whether espoused by the right or the left, this kind of rhetoric encourages the sides to demonize their opponents. It does absolutely nothing except empower the sides to hate each other.
It simply isn’t enough to say we have to “rid America of the scourge.” The individual has to end his complicity with the collective, withdraw from the context of patriarchal tribalism, and re-create himself as a founding member of collaborative holism.
Good luck accomplishing that. Please explain how you will, or I can, but not "they" or "them" or "congress", none of which exist in the real world we inhabit.
We’re working on it. Website coming - Re-emergence.com. See my posts on FB. Please stay in touch.
I'll bookmark it. Best of luck. If you need help, not sure what I could do, but..........
Morning in America! In a crimson red state. The restaurant is abuzz; the line is long; the unavoidable murmur of conversation both strangely cheery and happily delusional, as one would imagine in the cafeteria of the local looney bin. A curious study of subhuman behavior in the wild. Bite your tongue. Too early for this shit...
The average, indigestible Republican voter/hater/liar persisting in power, clogging the pipes of representative democracy despite repeated flushing, is wrong on: the fundamental purpose of government; true history and the proper education of children; religion and morality; crony capitalism and wealth disparity; crime and punishment; war and peace; science and climate destruction; health and happiness; just about everything from sunup to sundown... even what to order for breakfast. (Try the veggie omelet with egg whites and nondairy cheese instead of the "meat lover's platter" loaded with lard and cholesterol.)
Regardless of whether racism and all of the other exploitable bigotries were started by the morbidly rich, they have certainly learned to use them to manipulate the poorly educated. Thom has listed the accessories to these crimes (and countless others), and for the most part, they have aided and/or abetted because the morbidly rich told them to if they want to keep their jobs. Imagine that you learned to be a racist because you are the victim of a shitty education and that you crave membership in your cult. What would you think if there was irrefutable proof that racism or the other otherisms, are bullshit concepts grounded in greed and perpetually propagandized to frighten and enrage you? What if you’re a racist and viscerally believe that murdering black people at a grocery store is the right thing to do, could you ever acknowledge that you’ve been flimflammed by the very same morbidly rich sociopaths who make you vote for the same kakistocratic corporate whores every cycle? How do you teach someone who doesn’t want to learn that they are wrong? Especially those who willingly offered their unquestioning loyalty to the biggest asshole that has ever lived. Fix what we can and endeavor to teach kids to be passionate learners and not racists.
Pointing out objective truth -- available to all sentient beings nowadays at their fingertips if they choose to look -- is an effort largely wasted on wingers who instead choose ignorance and lies as a political strategy, clinging to power to force their unpopular, whacky belief systems onto everyone else.
Make no mistake, politics is all-out war by a different name (hopefully peaceful and lawful), and intractable enemies don't normally moderate their views much unless they absolutely have to: when outside forces utterly defeat them, or if they have a great epiphany and change of heart, remotely possible but highly doubtful. Fascists reserve their deepest hatred for liberals, whom they consider traitors to God and country and all that is decent and good... and (mainly) white.
For true progress to have a chance, the good citizens must wholeheartedly reject conservatives' dangerous, twisted nonsense at the ballot box in large enough numbers to overcome their longtime efforts to steal elections, of which they accuse Democrats -- a lame attempt at turning the tables to confuse voters. Recent polling has about 55% of mainstream Republicans believing in some version of the different evolving QAnon conspiracy theories and over 75% convinced Biden stole the election.
Whew! That's huge! If anyone is in need of replacing, it's these goofy mf'ers!
OK Scariest heard today. Miles Taylor, fmr Chief of Staff, Homeland Sec. on MSNBC "GOP on Defense over Replacement Theory" segment, maybe this is a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjiRrOFGmI "...Extremely hard to de-program..." millions...
turning to violence....We are past any tipping point where McConnell or McCarthy could re-leash the dogs if they tried. I don't know how what's her name moved on to next "guest." I'm sorry, but I am going back to my forest hideout and just hope it doesn't burn.
The weekend was gruesome coast-to-coast. What's with Thom's "dislikes?" Did I just never notice before? I've already registered my two cents that Kyle Rittenhouse will kill again. Wasn't a congressman offering him an internship? When his 15 minutes are up, he'll get itchy. I saw a good YouTube post: white 18-year-old with AR-15 is a "kid." Black 18-year-old with a bag of candy is a "thug." Yup. That's where we are.
just caught a clip of Tucker calling Buffalo shooter "mentally ill." That's the point of observing the frequency: the very ones most guilty of egging the slaughter on are still trying to brush it off as "lone-wolves."
After Bacon's rebellion in 1676 where European indentured servants joined forces with black slaves the elites have worked to insure that this would never happen again. The enacted the pass laws and slave patrols and enlisted dumb white settlers to provide free labor. President Lyndon Johnson put it best when he stated “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better off than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
White workers have had their standard of living erode over the past 40 years to the point where their life expectancy is declining. The response of many has been to buy more guns and support billionaires for public office. Critical thinking is largely absent from the American public.
If I was graduating from high school today I would be deciding to which country to emigrate and begin my adult life.
There's little discussion of the fact that the shooter survived because the cops talked this 18 year old white boy into surrendering instead of suicide. It's their job, but the rest of what I have to say about that is unseemly, and I won't go there. I suspect there were more people standing beside him from his home. If the reports are correct, his father bought him a rifle at age 16. This has been a factor in other cases.
It is never one thing, just as Thom has pointed out. It takes a dysfunctional village.
I've read your reply 4 times and while I love the humor, I really cannot find anything to argue with. You nailed it.
As my wife said yesterday, she knew humanity was doomed when she read the writings of John Muir, and the public response, which was "This fellow is interesting and probably correct but right now I need to go pave the back 40 to build a subdivision".
Ha! Your wife is a wise woman! Enjoy the day.
what i'm sitting with ... "In the end, white people all stand right beside the Buffalo Terrorist if those of us with that white privilege don’t push with everything we have to rid America of the scourge of racism and the big money and death-dealing industries that support it."
OK, I've heard all this stuff before. The bottom line is we can spend massive amounts of money to detect most white supremacist terrorists in the years while they are still carefully planning their terrorist attack. We can do a lot to protect citizens as well. However, if we simply get rid of all guns that are useless for self defense or hunting, we eliminate 90% of the problem.
Good luck accomplishing that.
Right, it would require a congress and voters. Actually, we do have a congress, it's just not been seen or heard from for about 50 years. I had this discussion yesterday with a family member. She kept saying people don't vote because congress ignores what voters want. I pointed out that the only way we can change it is voting. Not sure where to go next, we are both right.
I like a friend's idea, make it simple, vote against 100% of everyone we can vote for every time. Then they CAN'T get entrenched.
He has a point, Pelosi was a Progressive in 1987.
The geriatric squads running the asylum need to be "replaced" by younger, fresher minds. "Old [politicians] never die -- they just [wear out]." Apologies to General Douglas MacArthur.
I like my wife's idea. We replace all elected officials with civil servant. Anyone who wants takes a test, and the highest score gets the job. We'd get some bus drivers, welders, sex workers, who knows - certainly people more representative of society than corrupt millionaires.
Once APPOINTED as a member of congress for scoring highest, they get to work.
Members of congress do a simple job.
1. Manage a website that is a list of things Americans want done. They can suggest what they think are most important, but must include in the list the top 10 issues posted by citizens. Let's say 10 items they recommend, and 10 we recommend.
2. We the people rank the 20 items. We simply select from two choices "do this" and "erase this".
3. Congress posts the top 10 choices.
4. We rank them again.
5. Congress researches the top three issues and posts a least three solutions for each but no more than six ideas, including the cost and duration of each solution.
6. We the people vote on the proposals, "Yes", "No", or "Propose other solutions"
7. Congress pursues the ones we select.
8. When an issue is fixed, they post solutions for the next issue on the list.
For the executive branch, same thing. Swap out presidents annually, and give them virtually no power, so whoever won the seat can be honest. All we need the president to do is keep us informed.
The corrupt SCOTUS needs serious change. We remove all decision making. They are no longer allowed to create laws or pervert laws or destroy laws for a bribe. Instead, their role becomes commenting on laws to congress, explaining what they see as an issue and making recommendations for congress to re-write the law, which congress can do, but of course final approval would be via citizen votes.
To compliment this, since it's our money, we should be allowed to vote on line items, we pay whatever taxes we owe, but we get to direct where it's spend. For example, I might direct all of mine to non-war issues, while maybe you ONLY want to help schools, and another person might want to direct all of their taxes to pointless, endless wars. We deserve to control our own spending.
Certainly the process of legislation is as important as the intent if desired results are expected; that is, if the blue wave is huge enough to flood the zone with enough true-blue representatives who have their hearts in the right place and their heads screwed on straight.
Though it's nearly impossible to accomplish a damn thing when, for instance, consolidated and corporatized Big Media have convinced a lethargic public that it's -- OH MY GOD! Screaming chryons! -- shock-and-awe breaking news that only one percent of Democratic Senators (Manchin and Sinema) are thwarting progress. While it's so ho-hum, just more of the same, such a boring state of affairs to report that 100 percent of Republicans -- in both houses of Congress -- thwart meaningful change at every opportunity with every breath and have been doing so right out in the open for decades. Look over there, not here. Simply shocking, I tell you!
Well said. The underlying problem is the corrupt SCOTUS legalizing judges and other politicians selling decisions, votes, and influence to the highest bidding citizen in 1976, then when that brought in truckloads of bribes, the corrupt SCOTUS legalizing judges and other politicians selling decisions, votes, and influence to the highest bidding CORPORATION in 1978, then when that REALLY increased their bribes, the corrupt SCOTUS legalized SECRET purchasing of judges and other politicians in 2010, which allowed foreign governments to buy.
Just yesterday, yes yesterday, the corrupt SCOTUS legalized judges and other politicians OPENLY selling decisions, votes, and influence by allowing anyone who wants to own them to reimburse money they spent on themselves AFTER being elected. It's a wonderful new addition, you can purchase the winner AFTER THEY WIN, which is WAY more cost effective because the money goes right into the pocket of the judge or other politician you purchase. That's WAY more cost effective than betting on victory.
My investment company either created or pushed the creation of financial instruments that several a direction in market move.
I told my investment company to look into creating a financial instrument to purchase our entire government, then we voters could earn $2,500 per dollar invested like other investors.
Hopefully that will change in these next two election cycles, but it's doubtful. (Pardon the understatement.) Congress requires voters who are informed by their hearts as well as their heads.
I think it will change. I expect a blue tsunami this fall.
If we don't see a blue tsunami, we might as well give up.
I know plenty of people who have given up. Their point is after Nixon, ReaganBush, CheneyBush, and TrumPutin OPENLY committed felonies and slaughtered innocent people, congress did nothing, and voters didn't vote them all out of congress, the 5% of us who seem to be awake really are wasting our time. Might as well go straight to feudalism and let all these people be owned by whatever trillionaire buys the land they live on.
Our country, and the world, is already in the throes of the modern-day incarnation of feudalism, the never-ending story of a cage full of screeching, shit-flinging monkeys with loaded guns fighting over bananas. Sometimes, even Mother Nature gives up. It's called extinction.
Hey Thom. Your approach raises all kinds of questions, namely should vert complex moral matters be summed up in simple binary terms? This kind of rhetoric simply allows a good versus evil conclusion and a strict binary to our very complicated social problems. Take Chicago for example, the Democrat super majority in Chicago has been in total control for a century. Using your logic they therefore must be responsible for all the social decay of the City Chicago has been deemed the country’s most corrupt city. The fact is, the Democrat super majority Party stood right by the side of all those that have given the city this title. This fact is axiomatic, since the vast majority of the corruption has been done by Democrat politicians. For the facts, read the following report by University of Illinois at Chicago professor and former Ald. Dick Simpson. https://pols.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/273/2021/02/Corruption-Spikes-in-IL-Anti-Corruption-Rpt-13-final2.-1.pdf
Using your approach, can I conclude that the Democrat super majority in Chicago has stood right beside all those democrat politicians that have demoralized the city’s law enforcement? The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) shows a 45% increase in the retirement rate and a nearly 20% increase in resignations in 2020-21 compared to the previous years.
The same Democrat super majority stood right beside all those politicians that established a weaker criminal court system and watched an enormous flow of illegal guns into the city. Because democrats have controlled all the levers of power, they must certainly bear all responsibility for all the spikes in violent crime. Indeed, Chicago democrats oversee a crime rate of 3,926 per 100,000 people. That’s 67% higher than the national average.
The logic allows me to conclude that the Democrat super majority has stood right beside the criminals that have perpetrated 230 vehicle thefts, more than 75 burglaries, 55 aggravated batteries, 110 robberies, 76 criminal assault just in the 18th district just this year.
The Democrat super majority also stands right beside those that live in two adjoining Garfield Park neighborhoods and watch while the crime rate is 462% above national average. In East Garfield Park crime rate is 308% above national average. These are just two of dozens of neighborhoods with abhorrent crime rates.
The Democrat super majority stood right beside those that committed more than 800 homicides in 2021, a level not seen in 25 years. This same Democrat super majority stood right beside those 264 shooters on the Chicago-area highways last year. Out of those 264 only 22 resulted in an arrest.
The Democrat Party stood right beside all those corrupt political decisions that pushed the city’s liabilities to more than $48.billion. The City now only has $9.9 billion of assets available to pay bills. This means a Democrat supper majority stood right beside all those in the party allowing the city to be buried in the $38.7 billion financial hole. To erase this shortfall, each Chicago taxpayer would have to send $43,100 to the city.
These are just a handful of the problems that have made Chicago the most corrupt city in the country. And no doubt, the Democrat super majority has stood right beside all those that have mismanaged all the City’s financial responsibilities. They have raised taxes and dissuaded countless businesses to take any risks in any of the areas of the city. They stood right by all political regulators that have created massive bureaucratic agencies and stood right beside all democratic super majorities that have rigged the size and dimension of the cities wards. They’ve contributed to all the chaotic power of the aldermen and women , allowing them to retain control and wield power without little, if any accountability.
The dire list of issues could go on forever. But if we apply your rhetoric we can level all the blame on the Democrat super majority Party. That party simply stands right beside all the corruption and watches while the City plummets into a collective demoralized social reality. With your logic it’s a simple conclusion: we should level the entire guilt onto the entire Democrat super majority. They continue to stand right beside all this that have issued all this destruction.
I suppose leveling singular blame for all the problems of an entire city is easy, and acknowledging that the problems are overwhelmingly complex is just too demanding. But your approach does exactly the same. You’ve reduced an overwhelming complicated problems to the most simplest conclusions regarding race and privilege. Your words simply denote that one entire race and one political party are to blame for an insane terrorist that enacted terrible mayhem and premeditated mass murder.
Such a rhetorical approach dumbs down the complexities. Whether espoused by the right or the left, this kind of rhetoric encourages the sides to demonize their opponents. It does absolutely nothing except empower the sides to hate each other.