RE: An Open Letter to Congress
March 4, 2020 at 2:02 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2020 at 2:05 pm by Brian37.)
Maybe if we were objecting to Bush Jr or Mitt Romney, you'd have more of a case. But sorry, and once again, we are not at a point where I think politeness can work, as much as we want it to.
WW2 wouldn't have happened at all, if enough people had cared to be as blunt to Hitler back then. The destruction of a free society does not happen overnight. It is a slow chipping away, and the monster who seeks that power, sells it the same way, through hyper nationalism, scapegoating and vilification and falsely playing victim. All of that change is slow and incremental not sudden. So to most one can make an excuse "that's just politics" and that is boiling the lobster slowly.
If you get used to Trump's rhetoric, and falsely assume it can always be countered with politeness, that is a fools errand.
WW2 wouldn't have happened at all, if enough people had cared to be as blunt to Hitler back then. The destruction of a free society does not happen overnight. It is a slow chipping away, and the monster who seeks that power, sells it the same way, through hyper nationalism, scapegoating and vilification and falsely playing victim. All of that change is slow and incremental not sudden. So to most one can make an excuse "that's just politics" and that is boiling the lobster slowly.
If you get used to Trump's rhetoric, and falsely assume it can always be countered with politeness, that is a fools errand.
