(November 7, 2018 at 8:48 am)Khemikal Wrote:(November 7, 2018 at 8:43 am)Brian37 Wrote: It is either that, or let the authoritarian bully destroy our institutions.
A critical reading of history or society might suggest that you can't stop that, so long as there are willing collaborators. It only takes a couple assholes for the social contract to become a suicide pact.
WOW, so true. I agree, which is why I keep pointing out that we are literally at a critical point in our history, and it is fight or flight time, and if Trump's rhetoric isn't stopped bad things will follow even worse than what we have seen in the past couple years.
We have seen human cruelty creep up slowly like a lobster boiling slowly. I do get angry at my fellow Americans, even independents/libertarians and even some liberals whom assume that cant happen here. A open and civil society is work, and a lifetime duty. It isn't anything to be taken for granted.
We had slavery, we had oppression of women, we had denial of LGBT rights, and those cruel attitudes only got defeated through participation.
