I don't see what purpose it serves, ultimately. But I am also not mad at the lady at the Red Hen or whatever restaurant that asked SHS to leave. Did they kick her out because she was terrible, or because she was such a 'controversial figure' that they just didn't want all that $hit in their restaurant PERIOD - also because she was terrible.
Some of these politicians are playing with people lives
I’m sure that can be said for all of them but if you want to take away peoples healthcare...
that’s different than Warren wanting folks to pay higher taxes to cover healthcare
Ionno. Just seems like the folks on the right who claim they are victims aren’t really suffering physically or mentally from Dems policies.
But I’m sure they have some bullshit reasons.
An egg or milkshake ain’t gonna kill you tho.
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9. "Screaming on a politician seems perfectly fair" In response to Reply # 0
they do so much to keep themselves insulated from any of the effects of their actual policies and it's so rare that they hear voices that aren't from people with paid agendas that i think it can be healthy for them to see real people w/real emotion. They shouldn't get safe spaces from the ramifications from their actions.
Physical confrontation seems like a bad idea, though. Not to say that Mitch McConnell doesn't deserve a whole ass whoopin, but the person who does that would pay such a high price for a gesture that wouldn't change anything and likely would make things worse. Doesn't seem a. worth it or b. productive.
If Sarah Huckabee Sanders has to leave a restaurant because people are calling her a revolting liar (which is a statement of fact), then i don't mind.
Still The Shoe Guy from the GW Bush era is still a hero to me.
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15. "Anybody read Red Harvest?" In response to Reply # 0
It's a deeply crafty move for political leaders to make the world into a place where power and will are the only real rules and then tell people who have to suffer that amoral reality that collective, spontaneous exercise of power by regular people isn't right.
If a politician capitulates to wealthy donors or the whims of the news cycle or the conventional political wisdom of the moment, we look at it and say to ourselves, "Of course - why would you expect this person to behave according to a set of principles?" It's sounds like a fair argument, but it smuggles an "ought" out of an "is" and insists that there is something good and right about accepting things the way they are.
And maybe that's prudent, but I think it makes at least as much sense to view violent political action the same way: as an inevitable force of nature that should be expected when a small, privileged group exercise their corrupt will to dominate. Or, to put it another way, we should do a better job of placing our own action in historical context. Outside of academics and a few weirdo reactionaries, most people understand that it's kind of missing the point to discuss the morality of reacting against corrupt leaders. It was military-trained partisans who killed Mussolini, but it was regular people who took turns spitting and pissing on his corpse.
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16. "Good Point. " In response to Reply # 15 Tue May-21-19 08:46 AM by Buddy_Gilapagos
It reminds me how I think its self defeating when Protestors are confined to designated protestor only areas. If the protestors agree to limit their protest to the space their opposition ascribes to them, haven't they already lost?
I also think that a democracy goes bad when politicians don't feel the consequences of their actions directly or from their constituents.
In small time local government (where I was raised), you pass a rule someone hates, it gets uncomfortable next time you see people at the grocery store.
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22. "Right, and that accountability is now almost completely absent" In response to Reply # 16
Particularly on the national level. You can get voted out of Congress and get right to work as a lobbyist without ever setting foot in your home district where you spend pretty much no time anyway.
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