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True, but what's frightening now is that the mob/SJWs are aligned (mostly) with the new administration, whose party has swept up all power in the government.
by eplanit 6y ago
True, but what's frightening now is that the mob/SJWs are aligned (mostly) with the new administration, whose party has swept up all power in the government.
- akhilcacharya 6y ago"Frightening?" No, what's frightening is the armed insurrection that happened last Wednesday.
- agora_rising 6y agoYou are a conspiracy theorist. You are making things worse. I'm pleading with people like you to stop doing this before you make things worse. Flagging this doesn't change the truth of what I've posted. Please stop what you're doing
- heyoni 6y agoNo one swept up all of the power. It’s insane to say that just because democrats are in control. There’s an entire spectrum of opinions and differences within the party that is being set aside in order to fight for some common beliefs...like ending the war on drugs, the war on the female reproductive system, and the war on education. There’s a baseline among progressives which, once reached, will create entirely new divisions, trust me.
- j8hn 6y ago"The war on the female reproductive system". I realize you are referring to pro-choice. I'm curious why you chose to phrase it in this way. What is the war on education?
- heyoni 6y agoI'm not sure why I chose to phrase it that way. Probably because it's ongoing, multifaceted and victim to some very very dirty tactics. Also, we like "waging war" on things here rather than solve them. Briefly, our education system in the US is one of the least well performing systems amongst modern states. It is also the least well funded systems with conservatives trying to practically hand it over to private schools. Then you have public funding issues too numerous to list that contribute to the low quality of education including student loan debt being debt you cannot bankrupt your way out of, or cutting off funds to channels like PBS...
- j8hn 6y agoIs the GOP platform to privatize schools? If it was, how is that a war on education?
- dragonwriter 6y ago> whose party has swept up all power in the government. Did most of the federal judiciary die or resign? Was the Constitution amended to remove supermajority to requirements for certain actions?
- busterarm 6y agoThe federal judiciary has been taking criticism from both parties for decades now where both sides think that the courts have abdicated their responsibilities and let Executive authority run amok. Of course that criticism is never consistent temporally, and always depends on which party is in which office and doing the criticism. Either way, I'm not particularly excited about leaving things up to the courts.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoI'm not sure how one would come to that conclusion. Biden is regarded as a centrist, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/biden-cabinet.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/biden-cabinet... or https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-12/harris-biden-different-generation-similar-political-instinct https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-12/harris-bid... , so there's no love lost between his administration and the progressives. They might get a few things they want but Biden and the mainstream Democrats are probably going to keep their distance for the most part.
- remarkEon 6y agoJoe Biden is 78. He’s not firing on all cylinders anymore. He leads a party that has attempted, haphazardly, to deal with a growing and increasingly powerful left wing cultural phenomenon that seeks to use the infrastructure of government to change how society operates. You may be right, but it’s just a bet that the mainstream democrats manage to put a lid on these more extreme elements.