Especially in a society where no one ever simply says “I was wrong.” “I didn’t know.” Or heaven forbid, “I’M SORRY” with sincerity. Now a days, we get, “I’m sorry if you felt that way” - the onus being on the injured party, not on the perpetrator of pretty much anything.
Maybe it’s our litigious society where every single thing becomes a …
Especially in a society where no one ever simply says “I was wrong.” “I didn’t know.” Or heaven forbid, “I’M SORRY” with sincerity. Now a days, we get, “I’m sorry if you felt that way” - the onus being on the injured party, not on the perpetrator of pretty much anything.
Maybe it’s our litigious society where every single thing becomes a lawsuit (both sides are actually guilty of that) so no one will simply admit a screw up or maybe we have been so disconnected from morals or truth, we rationalize every move. Either way, I don’t see any MAGA everyday person from backing off their team colors anytime soon.
I think the best we can hope for is MAGA will fracture itself and hopefully, the winners will be less crazy than the losers.
Right now, they have supported the fringe to punish any person who has a sane idea in the GOP. And now we have a government funded billionaire threatening to bankroll it. Which is actually a reflection on us, more than him. That we are so easily swayed away from truth and democracy for a one time payout of a hundred bucks….literally three trips to chipotle or Chick-FIL-A. That’s how moral we have become. Instead of simply reading up on a candidate, going to the polls and voting for all the freedoms we take for granted.
If we continue on this path in these special elections, we will strengthen either a resistance to autocracy or a rubber stamp for expanding it. And that means every single person in these places understand CLEARLY and crazily in a fun, entertaining way that they need to get their bitts off the couch and vote this down.
Sternghtneong people who wish to suppress our voices will lead to straightening them to suppress our ability at the ballot box to change course.
And it will not happen until boys hear from their fathers, instead of a stranger on a podcast, why they should switch course. Not until the protests voter starts admitting they screwed up and the y thing they single voted on is now worse and make amends. Not until womens realize some trans kid they’ll never meet isn’t a danger to their daughter, it’s the administration aiding and abetting the Tate brothers and taking their jobs from them to hand to a white guy whom isn’t nearly as qualified. What’s more important, a soccer game or feeding and keeping a roof over your family? How about the Latin and Black men who supposedly switched to Trump. Do they think things will go well for them when they are disappeared off the street by masked men and THEN have the same people either admit their mistake or “find “ charges against them. If anything really came to light in the last few decades. It was how Black and Brown people typically are not afforded the same “innocent til proven guilty” as white men.
And maybe good lawyers will think twice against offending some random ebpberyday black person if they feel they will be targeted by the local DA.
The only think that trickles down, proven, is crap. It certainly has not been the economy. PROVEN. But bad acts usually do. We saw men stand by silently while women’s rights were taken away. Now we see immigrants rights taken away. On the chopping block is voting rights and unions. Does the average American male think they will be immune to a richer, better connected white make to take their rights? Ask the head of Paul Weiss or the heads of all the government agencies and universities. All much more powerful than the men in my neighborhood who supported trumo and they have self shackled themselves in the face of this debacle. I doubt, Tim, the union electrician. Up the street will fair better standing up LATER.
And Democrats DID get the fact that Americans want to be part of the in crowd….its what they kept telling voters that their vote was private and they could tell their husband or buddy they voted one way and pulled the lever the other.
Marcus, excellent post. You had me at the very beginning. I know so many people who have very infrequently said those words. When they do, it is for something minor, never for anything truly hurtful, dangerous, or just plain awful. A lot of this is average America white male resentment with foolish women going along with them.
Especially in a society where no one ever simply says “I was wrong.” “I didn’t know.” Or heaven forbid, “I’M SORRY” with sincerity. Now a days, we get, “I’m sorry if you felt that way” - the onus being on the injured party, not on the perpetrator of pretty much anything.
Maybe it’s our litigious society where every single thing becomes a lawsuit (both sides are actually guilty of that) so no one will simply admit a screw up or maybe we have been so disconnected from morals or truth, we rationalize every move. Either way, I don’t see any MAGA everyday person from backing off their team colors anytime soon.
I think the best we can hope for is MAGA will fracture itself and hopefully, the winners will be less crazy than the losers.
Right now, they have supported the fringe to punish any person who has a sane idea in the GOP. And now we have a government funded billionaire threatening to bankroll it. Which is actually a reflection on us, more than him. That we are so easily swayed away from truth and democracy for a one time payout of a hundred bucks….literally three trips to chipotle or Chick-FIL-A. That’s how moral we have become. Instead of simply reading up on a candidate, going to the polls and voting for all the freedoms we take for granted.
If we continue on this path in these special elections, we will strengthen either a resistance to autocracy or a rubber stamp for expanding it. And that means every single person in these places understand CLEARLY and crazily in a fun, entertaining way that they need to get their bitts off the couch and vote this down.
Sternghtneong people who wish to suppress our voices will lead to straightening them to suppress our ability at the ballot box to change course.
And it will not happen until boys hear from their fathers, instead of a stranger on a podcast, why they should switch course. Not until the protests voter starts admitting they screwed up and the y thing they single voted on is now worse and make amends. Not until womens realize some trans kid they’ll never meet isn’t a danger to their daughter, it’s the administration aiding and abetting the Tate brothers and taking their jobs from them to hand to a white guy whom isn’t nearly as qualified. What’s more important, a soccer game or feeding and keeping a roof over your family? How about the Latin and Black men who supposedly switched to Trump. Do they think things will go well for them when they are disappeared off the street by masked men and THEN have the same people either admit their mistake or “find “ charges against them. If anything really came to light in the last few decades. It was how Black and Brown people typically are not afforded the same “innocent til proven guilty” as white men.
And maybe good lawyers will think twice against offending some random ebpberyday black person if they feel they will be targeted by the local DA.
The only think that trickles down, proven, is crap. It certainly has not been the economy. PROVEN. But bad acts usually do. We saw men stand by silently while women’s rights were taken away. Now we see immigrants rights taken away. On the chopping block is voting rights and unions. Does the average American male think they will be immune to a richer, better connected white make to take their rights? Ask the head of Paul Weiss or the heads of all the government agencies and universities. All much more powerful than the men in my neighborhood who supported trumo and they have self shackled themselves in the face of this debacle. I doubt, Tim, the union electrician. Up the street will fair better standing up LATER.
And Democrats DID get the fact that Americans want to be part of the in crowd….its what they kept telling voters that their vote was private and they could tell their husband or buddy they voted one way and pulled the lever the other.
Marcus, excellent post. You had me at the very beginning. I know so many people who have very infrequently said those words. When they do, it is for something minor, never for anything truly hurtful, dangerous, or just plain awful. A lot of this is average America white male resentment with foolish women going along with them.