One thing I never want to hear again in my life is that we can’t do something because the American people “will never go along with it.” If we’ve learned anything it’s that a huge mass of American people will go along with pretty much fucking anything.
To be clear, I don't mean Trumpers. I mean the middle mass of Americans who simply don't want to be perceived as taking a stand, so as to avoid having to defend a position.
We know they'll shrug and go along with atrocity, but I suspect they'd also go along with good things.
We know they'll shrug and go along with atrocity, but I suspect they'd also go along with good things.
Anyway, we're going to have to enact necessary and much-needed solutions to pressing problems without the support of people who will never go along with it.
Either way we need to be done with using the idea of opposition—whether real or perceived—as a reason not to begin.
Either way we need to be done with using the idea of opposition—whether real or perceived—as a reason not to begin.
But I don't think we should underestimate that we've learned just how many people have no real principles beyond the desire to avoid taking a stand. Let's leverage their moral laziness for good.
They normalized a Muslim ban. I think they'd normalize a gun ban.
They normalized a Muslim ban. I think they'd normalize a gun ban.
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