02-06-2021, 08:49 AM
(02-05-2021, 02:13 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: 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.
Let's take a second to look at the rightward drift of the GOP over decades and the Presidency of Donald Trump. Did Trump really move the puck down the ice, or he just apply a slapshot at the glass? I think it matters, because he seems to have a hold on the party that has little to do with their "core beliefs", at least as they have stated them in the past. There's more at play here than ideological fortification. We're seeing something akin to true derangement. Remember the howls about Trump Derangement Syndrome? It's typical for accusers to point at their adversaries (enemies?) and accuse them of the very conditions they exemplify themselves.
So we're now in very dangerous territory, because we have one serious major party (agree with their ideas or don't) and the other in a state resembling mental illness. This resembles the 1850s and even the 1950s, with conspiracy theories driving the politics of the time. The fever broke in the 1950s, not so much in the 1850s
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