My friend said, "The dems don’t know how to fight. Always bringing a knife to a drone war."
I thought you might find my reply interesting...
Sort of. But that's like saying a chef is no good at auto repair. If you are a D, you are a person who is focused on evidence and policy, ideas for improving society and collaborating to support the public good. For us, the political wrangling, antagonism and conflict are not the point. Demonizing your opponent does not get more healthcare to at-risk communities.
Of course, there is the other side of the "sort of" where you hit the nail on the head. The R's have won. While the D's are busy trying to make the country better, the R's are trying to dominate and enslave. Our very nature is to figure out a system to make that impossible, not engage in combat to destroy our fellow citizens' political project.
How many times have you said, or listened to people say how astonished that people vote against their self interest. For us, for me, it continues to be literally inconceivable but the reality is that some people are artists and some are gang members. Some people think violence and domination are good, necessary, valuable aspects of life. Their self interest is satisfied when others are diminished.
Of course, Democrats do not know how to fight. Only assholes know how to fight and they are not, generally speaking, assholes. There will eventually be a cohort of young, violent people who try to resist the new Amerikan hegemony to inhibit the abuse of women and immigrants and gender fluid folk. They might succeed to some extent in those goals but they will also contribute to the Republican project of making domination and brutality the norm.
I thought you might find my reply interesting...
Sort of. But that's like saying a chef is no good at auto repair. If you are a D, you are a person who is focused on evidence and policy, ideas for improving society and collaborating to support the public good. For us, the political wrangling, antagonism and conflict are not the point. Demonizing your opponent does not get more healthcare to at-risk communities.
Of course, there is the other side of the "sort of" where you hit the nail on the head. The R's have won. While the D's are busy trying to make the country better, the R's are trying to dominate and enslave. Our very nature is to figure out a system to make that impossible, not engage in combat to destroy our fellow citizens' political project.
How many times have you said, or listened to people say how astonished that people vote against their self interest. For us, for me, it continues to be literally inconceivable but the reality is that some people are artists and some are gang members. Some people think violence and domination are good, necessary, valuable aspects of life. Their self interest is satisfied when others are diminished.
Of course, Democrats do not know how to fight. Only assholes know how to fight and they are not, generally speaking, assholes. There will eventually be a cohort of young, violent people who try to resist the new Amerikan hegemony to inhibit the abuse of women and immigrants and gender fluid folk. They might succeed to some extent in those goals but they will also contribute to the Republican project of making domination and brutality the norm.
Ghandi would have said that you cannot defeat your enemy by becoming him. Today that sounds like weak tea but, he's the only person who ever forced a global empire to its knees. Personally, I long for violence but I doubt that I am wise.