(July 14, 2024 at 8:04 am)arewethereyet Wrote: To be very clear...I don't want anyone shot and killed that isn't in danger of being killed by a serial killer or intruder or just a nut and in the moment.
There have been few people in my life when I have thought about how much better the world would be with them dead.
This one hurts my heart...I am against gun violence and mourn the people who have died at schools, churches, concerts, movies...with this one I am really torn.
I am having an internal battle with my own basic morals.
Other than the shitstorm that would surely follow....a dead Trump doesn't seem all that bad.
Given all his urgings to his followers to use violence against his enemies, it's unsurprising that violence should be wielded against him. And for that, he can find sympathy in the dictionary, between shit and syphilis.
There's also the fact that demagogues have a habit of dying violently.
I deplore the injection of violence into our politics. That it should be visited upon the man who introduced it seems as predictable as a beheading at a guillotine party.