05-10-2022, 02:10 PM
(05-09-2022, 07:27 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I don’t think we will go down an authoritarian road. Both extremes like authoritarianism (don’t kid yourselves)that pushes their viewpoint, but whichever side it heads toward, all the rest of the people will oppose including the opposite extreme.
Mike, to me this is like saying "Don't kid yourselves: both sides deny climate change when it suits them."
Given the underlined qualifier, your statement could be accurate.
One would just have to add that the Dem viewpoint, whatever that is, does not seem to require trashing rule of law on the scale of Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Iraq War or the Green Bay Sweep.
Whatever Maxine Waters or Nancy Pelosi said that one time hardly balances the scale.
Finally, regarding the bolded, the central political issue in the U.S. right now is that one party is heading towards ever more explicit and direct authoritarianism, but "the rest of the people" (or at least not enough to keep control of Congress away from them in 2022) don't seem very interested in naming the problem and opposing it. That might happen though, AFTER the authoritarians take power and start bringing anti-gay, anti-Sharia and anti-CRT legislation to the national level.
Meantime "both sides" do it so "I'm voting 3rd party"--i.e., leaving them the field?
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