The Death Penalty

[Stewy]

(06-02-2023, 12:36 PM)Nately120 Wrote: That's another thing that might calm down if politics ever returns to a slightly more normal place.  Right now there are a lot of influential people talking about how this group is dangerous and needs to be incarcerated/eliminated and this group is being unfairly treated and needs to be pardoned/condoned.  Our inability as a society to agree upon what is criminal or dangerous might not warrant bi-partisan support for the death penalty. 

Every day we see how easy it is for the national narrative to convince people that specific groups are dangerous, or that specific groups are totally 100% A-OK.  

I would say that is the biggest risk for those only getting their news from singular sources.  People that only listen to what they want to hear, which is usually extremism on one side or the other.  Both sides want to radicalize and scare the people that listen to them.

This is only a speech from a movie, but the first three minutes of this speech at the end of "The American President" (great movie BTW) are just fantastic and it encapsulates what is wrong with politics today, but it is even worse today as it is both sides.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-__djIQgBJc&ab_channel=LeeHoedl

Quote:"No matter what your problem is, I can guarantee you Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it.  Bob Rumson is only interested in making you afraid of it and telling who's to blame for it.  That ladies and gentlemen is how you win elections."

And that is todays American politics especially for those who have been radicalized to one of the extreme's.