"Legitimate political discourse?"

[Dill]

(02-08-2022, 01:56 PM)kalibengal Wrote: I dont like posting on political things especially in a Bengals Chat Room but how sad is our Country looking right now where this is "OK" to say about what happend last yr?
This is not a Politcal Party thing really, I see it more as a Country as a whole and who do we want to be ? ...and we are headed for a Nazi Germany /Castro-Cuba type of regime if Democrats dont start playing more hard ball.  The Orange Turd has yet to be held accountable FOR ANYTHING and thats really the crux of it all.  I wish we still had the old GOP in place, there are things I would agree on and sometimes not but it was a sane time that now seems so far away and forgoten.

The crux of the problem is that we are not a "we" anymore. 

That's why it is a matter of party, when one party can (without evidence beyond Trump/Giuliani/Powell claims) convince 50 million voters that that Biden stole the election, and the other can (with hard, court-admissible evidence) prove that Trump tried to steal it.  One party is now under control of a leader, disgraced and voted out office, who still determines party priorities and who can represent it. 

I agree with you about the wimpyness of Democrats. A few fight the rolling coup now underway, but too many still think the system will somehow just preserve itself, without decisive voter input. 

Could be that he is preparing something behind the scenes and just waiting for the appropriate moment, but right now it looks like Garland and his DOJ are keeping their distance from 6/1 committee findings. They may be happy to prosecute individual rioters, but so far seem paralyzed before the prospect of dealing with those who engineered the coup attempt, which went much further than the hundreds actually engaged in the break in. 

We are in a crisis of accountability, with a limited time window for fixing that before the perps are back in power--those who will define the break in and coup as "legitimate political discourse." Nothing to prosecute there.