(11-14-2020, 12:35 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(11-13-2020, 03:20 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Liberalism is the diametric opposite of fascism.
I am careful to avoid calling any elected official a word referring to feces. I will save that for...
What's your point? You're not careful to avoid calling elected officials that you don't like something bad and neither am I. Dude, I'd call her a piece of shit to her face and if she wants to call me a racist for doing it that's fine because there's plenty of proof that I'm not one. Dude, this country is becoming American minority enough to strip a piece of shit black woman of every special protection that she thinks/feels she has today. Times are changing and the American people are waking up. The Democratic people are still centered on themselves and their issues. The only shared issue is COVID right now.
If I am going to compare anyone to feces it is going to be someone incontrovertibly horrible. By saying such about Ilhan Omar you have insulted the majority of people in her district, a majority of her district voting for her.
I have no problem calling anyone out for investigation that may lead to prosecution, conviction, and imprisonment for threatening an elected official with any form of violence or plotting harm (including kidnapping). I live in Michigan and I have good cause to be touchy about terrorism. Were this about some elected arch-conservative Republican in let us say Wyoming I would be similarly troubled. We choose our politicians with ballots, and if we remove them for gross misconduct we do so with ballots -- not bullets.
Elected officials deserve special protection because elections matter. If they don't matter because some politicized militia can nullify an election with some violent act -- then any semblance of democracy is kaputt.
Yes, I called out an Arizona congressman for standing for violent protesters claiming that the 2020 Presidential election is a fraud. Claiming that the election is fraudulent is one thing (free speech),but bringing in armed militias? That is very wrong.
Were I a Congressman I would vote to censure Gosar for that. He made a mistake, and it is best that he never make the same mistake again. It would be wrong if someone on my side did that.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.