03-15-2018, 04:53 PM
(03-15-2018, 12:51 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-14-2018, 06:46 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It's a great day, with an extremist Republican being upset in PA, and the walkout by thousands and thousands of dedicated and aroused students demanding gun control so their lives are safe. I am so glad, and proud of them, and I will join them in the march here in San Jose on March 24, along with my UU church group.Do you think the Democrats favorable view of Trump's policies and his willingness to support them had something to do with the victory? We'll have to see if he sticks to his promises or he switches and sides with the liberal Democrats on issues like immigration and the wall. Me, I'd say the debt is going to be the crisis issue. My daughter told me that the walk out wasn't a big deal at her school. She said most kids opted to stay in school which sounds about right as far as the community goes. The majority aren't liberals in the community.
It strikes me though, why it has to come to this. After the shock and activism following Newtown, and sit ins even in congress, and attempts time after time after each disaster, America still does not budge. It seems apparent that guns are this saeculum's slavery issue. America is really, really sick, and its disease is ammosexuality. It may be incurable, in which case we become fully barbarian. The gun issue may well be the catalyst for a civil war of some kind at the end of this 4T; maybe on a smaller scale, if the right wing gun-nut rebels can be easily defeated by a moderate-liberal government that takes power in the 2020s. If that moderate-liberal takeover occurs, and gun controls and bans on military weapons are passed, as now proposed, it will be in large measure due to the young activist late-millennial students today who by the thousands and thousands will be voting out the slaves of the NRA, the most evil institution in the USA today-- the equivalent of slavery in the 1860s. And they may enlist in the forces, perhaps led by a boomer gray champion president, that long about 2025-2028 will take down and disarm the gun-nut rebels who cannot adjust to 21st century realities. We'll see. Go students! Yeah!
Trump has already backed down on guns and is as unreliable as he always is, except when it comes to supporting racist nonsense like the wall and anti-immigration; he's pretty consistent there.