11-09-2020, 05:40 PM
(11-09-2020, 11:29 AM)David Horn Wrote:(11-09-2020, 12:06 AM)gabrielle Wrote:(11-08-2020, 10:38 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN is reporting on one red violence advocate. The police chief of Marshall Arkansas apparently posted on social media a picture of many Democratic mainstays and advocated that they find their way to the gallows. It is a rare exception to the call for unity, not violence and division.
Result? He soon resigned.
I have a vague feeling of unease, underneath the relief. Someone on social media likened it to being in a horror movie where the monster has been killed, but there's still 15 minutes left in the picture.
The Senate is still in play. Maybe the scene switches there. Maybe (just maybe) it all turns out well.
This sort of rhetoric explains why a Supreme Court that Donald Trump has so mangled in its purpose can be the 'gift' that keeps giving, especially should states enact increasingly-draconian legal codes or establish their own equivalents of the infamous Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a nasty secret police on the same page with such entities as BOSS (enforcers of Apartheid in South Africa), Gestapo, Kempeitai, KGB, Mukhabarat, Stasi, and Tontons Macoutes.
What most matters is that Republican pols abandon the ideology that Donald Trump has introduced into the GOP.
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.