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Oh, there's plenty of room for anger currently. Sure. And I'd prefer we direct it to the corporate news media myself, but the point is that it's only going to go so far before it has to change to not-angry. And be what it really is.
If you're saying you've got a movement whose entire purpose is to kill nazis, I'm onboard, right - but after we kill most of the big nazis and the rest have scurried off under their rocks, then what? Kill nazi sympathizers? Okay - I might peace out at that moment, but once that's done then what? Start a record company?
I'm just saying - anger is a useful device but it's no be-all and end-all as the few remaining halfway-human members of the republiQan party are surely considering now that they've won everything with lies and nazis again.
At some point you have to run the boring meetings and pass the cost-cutting measures and deny someone their dream pony because it won't fit in this year's omnibus bill.
I would not advise threatening your opponents lives, but certainly calling them what they are and threatening them with jail time for their out and about treason is warranted in this environment. People rightfully have internalized the reality that powerful people are above the law and liberals especially yearn for exceptions to that as just more evidence that people on the left are ripe for a tone change.
To the point of actually getting things done after, I believe it's possible to walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. Rhetoric and policy should be connected in a serious government leadership.
Yeah but unserious just won everything. Is serious angry?
There's an argument to be made that we're just seeing the vestiges of our unfinished 1865 civil war resurfacing.
In other words, the reason the US has not had the tremendous social strides that such a wealthy nation could be expected to have, is because we never fully resolved the core ideological divide. And, like cancer, the remnant losers' beliefs have metastisized from their concentrations across the South to infect pockets of the nation as a whole.
As an example, about 100 years ago Michigan was inundated with migrants from the South, who moved to take advantage of the manufacturing boom, when Detroit was an auto powerhouse. That influx of people also came with their leftover confederate loser's ideology. And naturally people then settle and spew out progeny that they inculcate into their hateful ideas too, poisoning generations down the line, which eventually brings us to today. But if we look back over the last 160 years of American struggle, the echoes of the civil war have remained, because the victors allowed them to persist. And in many cases, returned former Confederates to their seats of power.
In other words, the line drawn in the sand was eroded by a mistaken hope for unity, with those who will never embrace the Union's requirements of what makes us all Americans. To still hold confederate views is to BE as unAmerican as possible. They are traitors.