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We shouldn't engage with their rhetoric at face level. What the congressman is really saying is "I'm a member of a party/system so obviously corrupt and entrenc
by alphonsegaston 10y ago
We shouldn't engage with their rhetoric at face level. What the congressman is really saying is "I'm a member of a party/system so obviously corrupt and entrenched that this question isn't worthy of a dignified response."
The sooner Americans start engaging with the actions of their politicians, rather than their stated rhetoric, the better off we'd all be.
- monk_e_boy 10y agoWhat's the darkest path America could take? Gazing across the Atlantic from Europe, the USA is walking a dark path. I have to remind myself that as well as Trump, they created Seinfeld, for every bomb dropped the civil rights movement has saved another person... it's a crazy country. I hope it swings left next time.
- alphonsegaston 10y agoI'd say something like Russia, although probably more overtly brutal and violent. We don't have anyone nearly as capable as Surkov to "manage" our democracy, and would probably devolve into another civil war if the same level of authoritarianism took hold. But fundamentally, you're right, America is a crazy country. That the citizens of the world's military super power are this irrational is a frightening turn in history.