RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
January 8, 2021 at 12:59 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2021 at 1:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A greater percentage than would respond in the affirmative to a stranger over the telephone when asked that question - and an even greater percentage when it can be done out of sight and out of mind by someone else.
Did you miss the last four years?
I'm not contesting that this isn't how our system should work, or that there are still barriers to what they want in place - but those are exactly the things that you will be asked to compromise over - already are being told you must compromise over. Will...compromise over, if the past is any indicator. Otherwise, as the nutballs are pointing out, the calls for healing and compromise and the big tent are thoroughly disingenuous. They're not nuts in any sense other than my calling them that. They're the mainstream. They keep telling us, they keep showing us...we keep pretending otherwise. If it helps, my frustration isn't aimed at or caused by you or any position you hold or any disagreement between any principle we might be likely to discuss. It's that we are intentionally blinding ourselves to this reality as it's too uncomfortable to bear and we don't have easy answers for it.
We worry it might be impossible to bring americas two halves back together forgetting (or wishing to avoid the implications) that we have already consistently centered white supremacists for every bit of our history as a country. We're already as together with them as we ever were or even could be, imo. That's what makes their complaints so ridiculous. They already have what they want and could better keep it by keeping their mouths shut about it.
Did you miss the last four years?
I'm not contesting that this isn't how our system should work, or that there are still barriers to what they want in place - but those are exactly the things that you will be asked to compromise over - already are being told you must compromise over. Will...compromise over, if the past is any indicator. Otherwise, as the nutballs are pointing out, the calls for healing and compromise and the big tent are thoroughly disingenuous. They're not nuts in any sense other than my calling them that. They're the mainstream. They keep telling us, they keep showing us...we keep pretending otherwise. If it helps, my frustration isn't aimed at or caused by you or any position you hold or any disagreement between any principle we might be likely to discuss. It's that we are intentionally blinding ourselves to this reality as it's too uncomfortable to bear and we don't have easy answers for it.
We worry it might be impossible to bring americas two halves back together forgetting (or wishing to avoid the implications) that we have already consistently centered white supremacists for every bit of our history as a country. We're already as together with them as we ever were or even could be, imo. That's what makes their complaints so ridiculous. They already have what they want and could better keep it by keeping their mouths shut about it.
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