Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:07 am
Seabass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:24 am
Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:12 am
That's a good breakdown of what look like questionable decisions.
Say what? Isn't it more or less what I've been saying?
Sure, while also refusing to engage with even the possibility you're overemphasizing Trump/Republicans role in this crisis. That's not really a big deal. It looks like a job to me though. You're obviously passionate about removing Republicans from power. I don't disagree with that. But I'm also interested in poking around to see if there's more.
--maybe Trump/Republicans is all there is too it, or they are the most significant factor, but again, I doubt it.
I spent my thirties trying to convince myself that Republicans aren't that bad. They're just old fashioned, I told myself. I convinced myself that the harm they cause isn't intentional, but rather a side effect of anachronistic views. They don't mean to hurt anyone, they're just misguided, right?
Then they elected Trump. This is a man who spent 8 years calling our first black president a non-citizen. This is a man who called Mexicans murderers and rapists. He called global warming a Chinese hoax. He said he would ban all Muslims. He mocked disabled people. He encouraged his supporters to physically attack protesters. On, and on, and on. Point is, he's despicable and they LOVE him. They love him not in spite of his ugliness, but BECAUSE of it. He's more popular than Reagan. He still has 90% support with Republicans. Even after three years of this madness. Even after the ethnic cleansing policies. Even after child separation. Even after Stephen Miller was outed as a nazi. Even after the Mueller report. Even after we found he'd violated campaign finance laws. Even after he tried to extort Ukraine into rigging our elections. Even after Charlottesville. Even after he went back to calling the press the enemy of the people not 24 hours after that shooting massacre at the newspaper in Maryland. Even after he said windmills cause cancer. Even after he spent two months trying to gaslight a global pandemic out of existence.
Electing leaders who are malevolent and sadistic has consequences. Electing leaders who do not accept science has consequences. We're seeing those consequences unfold right before our eyes. And all this is just a sideshow compared to what's coming when the oceans start gobbling up our major cities.
So yeah, you're right. I'm probably not going to entertain the possibility that I'm too harsh on Republicans because I've already wasted too much time and energy trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." —Voltaire
"They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved." —Sebastian Gorka