05-18-2024, 08:08 PM
(05-18-2024, 05:49 PM)FormerlyBengalRugby Wrote: Since you clearly know what parts I was referencing, tell me about them?
I am surprised you fell for the same thing you are accusing me of falling for. Until the full release of the videos, all you have seen has been selected by the committee, yet it is accepted without question. Now more video is released, and you're making that same accusation of what you have already fallen for.
It was a dark day, an a lot of people bad bad decisions, no doubt. But the public has not seen the full truth yet, only snippets that were hand picked. Kind of similar to the situation the left fear the right will do, and likely will do, if they get Joe Biden competency tapes. One side had control of the videos and was clipping and cutting to push a narrative.
What makes you think I know which parts? Anything you have seen has been selectively released to spin a narrative. That is what I am saying. If you base your opinions on the videos released by the House from any point then you are being fed a narrative. I don't see how I have fallen for anything given that I don't watch the videos or really read any news about them other than knowing bits and pieces have been released. I know from the reporting on that day what happened. I know people illegal entered the Capitol, assaulted LEOs, tried to break into the chambers, broke windows, stole property, etc.
January 6th aside, that wouldn't have even needed to occur for me to view the MAGA movement the way I do. Trump has repeatedly shown a preference for autocrats and autocratic tendencies. Unfortunately, he is not the cause of this movement in the GOP; they have been pushing for more power vested in the executive for quite some time and they openly admit that the more people that vote the less likely they are to win, so they look for policy options to suppress the vote.
The MAGA movement and the modern GOP are anti-democratic, and that is specifically with a lower-case d.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
