Joe Biden is taking flak for acting honorably - for having the strength to leave a foreign civil war where the US was never wanted- for following the science on covid to bring an end to the pandemic and he is being sabotaged by Republican perfidy. It's more than frustrating to watch these false narratives propagated by the Republicans ha…
Joe Biden is taking flak for acting honorably - for having the strength to leave a foreign civil war where the US was never wanted- for following the science on covid to bring an end to the pandemic and he is being sabotaged by Republican perfidy. It's more than frustrating to watch these false narratives propagated by the Republicans have so much impact. I rely on Heather's daily communications to keep the faith that sanity will prevail in the end. Thank you.
I was thinking the same as I read today’s letter—I wish it were also a newscast. I am sickened by the Republicans. I just read an article in The Atlantic by Peter Wehner comparing outrage to addiction—one keeps needing more to get high, and the repubs continue to supply.
In spite of my best efforts to understand and to counter the Republiqan talking points, I have arrived at the point where I believe that there is no talking to/ reasoning with/ providing accurate information to these people. There is no point in negotiating with terrorists because they do not operate in the same world as the rest of us. That is my conclusion with today's Republiqans. They have the same wants and desires as terrorists do, and must be treated as such.
"It was as if an abyss had opened. Amends can be made for almost anything, at some point in politics, but not for this.”-Hanah Arendt on the holocaust and Nazis.
”If politics is only a set of economic decisions, then the person is no more than the work they do and the infinite preciousness of every person’s potential cascades into a brutal homogeneity, one person indivisible from the next."
I feel the same towards the Republican's inaction and ineptitude towards the pandemic, the anti vax, the anti mask, it comes down to being "anti humanity". This is what has happened to them. The Republican leaders promote inhumanity further and further, until what or when?
I've been reading your process with former colleagues, the R folks in your life over the past several months, Ally. Deep sigh to read that you have come to this place, and relief that your precious energies will re-focus. I would be proud to march alongside you any day.
I wonder if on his deathbed DeSantis will ask himself, "Was standing up for personal freedoms worth the deaths of so many people, including children? Am I a murderer?" Doubtful. The man possesses the wisdom of a cockroach.
t-Rump knew more people would die because of his lies and inactions (no COVID protections needed), but he, lacking a conscious or a single moral bone in his body, believed those Iives were not as important as his economy. Someone has to have recorded him saying as much. I would sentence him to life without mercy.
Joe Biden is taking flak for acting honorably - for having the strength to leave a foreign civil war where the US was never wanted- for following the science on covid to bring an end to the pandemic and he is being sabotaged by Republican perfidy. It's more than frustrating to watch these false narratives propagated by the Republicans have so much impact. I rely on Heather's daily communications to keep the faith that sanity will prevail in the end. Thank you.
I was thinking the same as I read today’s letter—I wish it were also a newscast. I am sickened by the Republicans. I just read an article in The Atlantic by Peter Wehner comparing outrage to addiction—one keeps needing more to get high, and the repubs continue to supply.
Unfortunately, those who need to hear her won't listen.
Yup.
In spite of my best efforts to understand and to counter the Republiqan talking points, I have arrived at the point where I believe that there is no talking to/ reasoning with/ providing accurate information to these people. There is no point in negotiating with terrorists because they do not operate in the same world as the rest of us. That is my conclusion with today's Republiqans. They have the same wants and desires as terrorists do, and must be treated as such.
Ally, your are correct.They have been radicalized. They can not be reasoned with.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210224143455.htm
Thank you for this.
"It was as if an abyss had opened. Amends can be made for almost anything, at some point in politics, but not for this.”-Hanah Arendt on the holocaust and Nazis.
”If politics is only a set of economic decisions, then the person is no more than the work they do and the infinite preciousness of every person’s potential cascades into a brutal homogeneity, one person indivisible from the next."
I feel the same towards the Republican's inaction and ineptitude towards the pandemic, the anti vax, the anti mask, it comes down to being "anti humanity". This is what has happened to them. The Republican leaders promote inhumanity further and further, until what or when?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/01/totalitarianism-in-age-donald-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt-protests
I've been reading your process with former colleagues, the R folks in your life over the past several months, Ally. Deep sigh to read that you have come to this place, and relief that your precious energies will re-focus. I would be proud to march alongside you any day.
Thank you.
I wonder if on his deathbed DeSantis will ask himself, "Was standing up for personal freedoms worth the deaths of so many people, including children? Am I a murderer?" Doubtful. The man possesses the wisdom of a cockroach.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210224143455.htm
t-Rump knew more people would die because of his lies and inactions (no COVID protections needed), but he, lacking a conscious or a single moral bone in his body, believed those Iives were not as important as his economy. Someone has to have recorded him saying as much. I would sentence him to life without mercy.
In solitary confinement.