It doesn't matter whether or not his spew has any relationship to reality. In this, at least, the former Republican Party's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, is correct. They don't have to persuade anyone, just terrorize all opposition into submission, starting at the local level. Turn out enough drooling armed thugs at the local school bo…
It doesn't matter whether or not his spew has any relationship to reality. In this, at least, the former Republican Party's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, is correct. They don't have to persuade anyone, just terrorize all opposition into submission, starting at the local level. Turn out enough drooling armed thugs at the local school board meeting and eventually you'll force out the sane people and replace them with your fellow thugs. Threaten enough health officials and they'll resign. Control the local police union and enough judges and you don't have to worry about breaking the law.
They don't have to get a majority of the votes in an election, either. Gerrymander enough House districts, suppress enough voters, and terrorize or, failing that, just kill enough election officials, replace them with loyal members of the cult, and you can simply nullify all the opposing votes.
These kinds of things tend to be self-correcting, but we still need to put our minds to it. The 1920s proved to be a pretty good example of social regression, but public opinion self-corrected in the 1930s. The Democratic reforms of the 1930s proved to be durable. We'll need another 20 years to see how well we pull put out of the current mess.
That would be my concern as well, yes. The brown shirts or black shirts or red hats don't need to convince anyone of anything. They've gone past that point. We need to decide how we're going to deal with that threat.
Speaking from some personal experience, I can affirm how right you are. They are counting on people remaining in denial, afraid, tired, confused, lazy and apathetic to do anything serious about it. We can just change the channel if we want, right?
Sadly, yes. The NRA will finally achieve its dearest wish: a national of angry, frightened people all armed to the teeth and ready to kill each other. Vast profits to be had.
It doesn't matter whether or not his spew has any relationship to reality. In this, at least, the former Republican Party's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, is correct. They don't have to persuade anyone, just terrorize all opposition into submission, starting at the local level. Turn out enough drooling armed thugs at the local school board meeting and eventually you'll force out the sane people and replace them with your fellow thugs. Threaten enough health officials and they'll resign. Control the local police union and enough judges and you don't have to worry about breaking the law.
They don't have to get a majority of the votes in an election, either. Gerrymander enough House districts, suppress enough voters, and terrorize or, failing that, just kill enough election officials, replace them with loyal members of the cult, and you can simply nullify all the opposing votes.
These kinds of things tend to be self-correcting, but we still need to put our minds to it. The 1920s proved to be a pretty good example of social regression, but public opinion self-corrected in the 1930s. The Democratic reforms of the 1930s proved to be durable. We'll need another 20 years to see how well we pull put out of the current mess.
And now that punk Rittenhouse has skated on all charges. Carte blanche for every punk with a gun in the country.
That would be my concern as well, yes. The brown shirts or black shirts or red hats don't need to convince anyone of anything. They've gone past that point. We need to decide how we're going to deal with that threat.
Speaking from some personal experience, I can affirm how right you are. They are counting on people remaining in denial, afraid, tired, confused, lazy and apathetic to do anything serious about it. We can just change the channel if we want, right?
and for every weapons seller.
Sadly, yes. The NRA will finally achieve its dearest wish: a national of angry, frightened people all armed to the teeth and ready to kill each other. Vast profits to be had.
In general, Democrats aren't "ready to kill" our fellow Americans. Plenty of Republicans will see us as inhuman zombies to be slaughtered.