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To me, these attitudes (and their general acceptance + support) are just as worrying as Donald's own attitudes and supporters. One of the strangest things abou
by adpoe 10y ago
To me, these attitudes (and their general acceptance + support) are just as worrying as Donald's own attitudes and supporters.
One of the strangest things about human nature--at least that I've seen--is that when we vehemently resist something we detest we often produce its mirror image.
It's honestly extremely frightening to think that making a political donation to a major-party candidate you support could cost you your livelihood in this country. Those are not the principles America was founded on. (It's not even like McCarthyism anymore where they were persecuting a small minority party. We want to blacklist people for being __Republican__? Really?)
This is exactly how Democracy becomes eroded and one party systems emerge. And the fact that more people don't see that is quite chilling.
What's that old American saying? Something like: "I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." That's the America I grew up in. What happened to it?
- leurfete 10y agoWe've been headed toward one party statehood for awhile. The American project has failed. "Democratic politicians are the ruling class’s prime legitimate representatives and that because Republican politicians are supported by only a fourth of their voters while the rest vote for them reluctantly, most are aspirants for a junior role in the ruling class. In short, the ruling class has a party, the Democrats. But some two-thirds of Americans — a few Democratic voters, most Republican voters, and all independents — lack a vehicle in electoral politics." http://spectator.org/39326_americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution/ http://spectator.org/39326_americas-ruling-class-and-perils-...
- kls 10y agoI was really hoping that Gödel was wrong when he said that he found a logical loophole in the constitution that would allow for a dictatorship. But I believe we are figuring out what that loophole was.