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Its not about seeing pictures of dead people, its about empathy. Large parts of the USA cannot empathise with their own dead children in their own school shoot
by KaiserPro 3y ago
Its not about seeing pictures of dead people, its about empathy.
Large parts of the USA cannot empathise with their own dead children in their own school shootings. Not because they don't have empathy, because its been shaped to not allow any kind of dissent from "accepted"(accepted by which team you support) view points.
There are almost no uniting subjects for the USA anymore.
It is far to profitable to seek division than unity for almost anything, be that guns, health, education, the constitution, the supreme court, equality, civil rights.
the Democrats are incompetent, and the GOP has ceased to be a political organisation.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoAmerica has too much anomie and normalization of violence. Australia addressed the matter while America insists on putting intransigent philosophical utopian ideals ahead of solidarity and life.
- throwawa14223 3y agoI think you'll find solidarity isn't an American value, from unions to this issue.
- mandmandam 3y ago> the Democrats are incompetent They're reasonably competent when undermining progressives, feathering their nests, and holding on to power.
- smegger001 3y agoi thinks its more they are willing to make slow steady progress than try and push bills that wont make it through a split congress and only serve to make their opposition more intransigent. whats the point of failing to pass a bill that will alienate moderate swing voters loosing you seats in the next election. when you can pass bills that get you some of what you want now and more the next and after each election.
- mandmandam 3y agoWith respect, I don't think you're paying attention. Establishment Democrats would rather a Republican win than a progressive; they've shown this many times now.
- notfed 3y ago> Its not about seeing pictures of dead people, its about empathy. What's "it"?
- InSteady 3y agoThe issue. Context clearly dictates they are talking about the main point or issue at hand.
- notfed 3y agoOk so we're going with the interpretation, "showing dead bodies on TV is 'about empathy'"? I was charitably trying not to interpret the comment this way, because the rest of the comment rants about how there is too much division. It seems absurd to me to suggest that showing dead bodies will unite people. In practice it seems to do exactly the opposite.