02-05-2021, 02:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-05-2021, 02:19 PM by Eric the Green.)
(02-04-2021, 04:18 PM)mamabug Wrote:(02-04-2021, 03:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I disagree with you a lot, but Bob Butler says we need some more red Republican views on the new facebook forum. Feel free to join. It is getting lots of new members.
How many times do I need to say I'm not a Republican? I was a card-carrying ACLU member who marched against US involvement in Nicaragua and was in the Peace and Justice club of my high school. I haven't changed any of those principles, the parties have changed around me. Just because I am objective enough about Team Blue to not buy everything they are selling doesn't make me 'Red'. I wasn't on these boards during the Trump era so you have no idea how I would or would not have railed against any of his policies.
It may come as a surprise given the media articles, but he isn't President anymore and has no power when it comes to setting policy. I am focusing on the people who do and the trends I am seeing. It's kind of like you asking me 'what about Hoover' when I'm decrying FDR putting American citizens into camps.
The Parties have not changed much. Trump has taken Republicans further to the right, and has only brought out the simmering bigotry that was there since the sixties, including from the Southern strategy and the Goldwater candidacy.
The Republicans have turned increasingly to the right. As Obama said, they have embraced all kinds of crazy for years. It goes way back. But they are extremists now. Meanwhile, their stonewalling and blocking of all needed legislation for 40 years, and increasingly so, has polarized Democrats on the other side. The result of this stagnation and repression imposed by Republicans is that real problems and concerns have increased. So the activism on the Left has increased too. The 4T is the time of decision. Which side are you on? It seems despite your claims, you have chosen the right-wing. If I am wrong about that, I'd be pleased, but I don't see it from you right now.
Why not support the current actions and proposals of Biden and the Democrats to restore sanity to our government and our country? Why not oppose Trump's attempted coup, and support his conviction over this solid breach of his oath of office?
Trump needs to be prevented from serving in office again, and he needs to be silenced as much as possible lest he stir up more violent mobs. Threatening or inciting assassination of public officials is a crime. Taylor-Greene belongs in jail, not in congress.