If the Democrats currently in charge of both legislatures and the executive branch don't immediately start treating the Republican Party as an enemy to national security instead of as trusted colleagues, I'm not sure what stops the installation of Dictator Trump in 2024.
It won't be Mitt Romney's narrowly parsed fits of dignity, or Ben Sasse's vapid disingenuous heavy sighs or Susan Collins' concern or Joe Manchin's disappointment that will prevent this grim fate from coming to pass, I assure you.
It's time to demolish the Republican Party.
I know this won’t happen but I think what’s warranted is an executive order purging every Republican from appointed or elected office, and making anyone registered as a Republican ineligible for office, effective immediately, with replacements ready at all levels of government.
They’ve delegitimized themselves. They are a very real and present danger to the constitution, national security, and democracy.
It’s extreme but warranted.
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Before redemption comes reparation.
Before reparation, repentance.
Before repentance, confession.
Before confession, acknowledgement.
Before acknowledgement, awareness.
People benefitting from a wrong will do anything to prevent this sequence. So they attack each step—as we see.
America is a country best understood using dynamics of abuse and enablement.
What abusers want are the gifts of redemption without the cost of reparation.
What enablers want is the refuge of comfortable lies, which insulate them from the inconvenience of caring.
As we see.
Knowledge of a wrong carries a moral imperative to acknowledge it.
Acknowledgement carries one to confess it.
Confession, to repent of it.
Repentance, to repair it.
And so, among people who presently benefit from wrong, there grows a powerful desire not to know.
Friedersdorf could use his platform to admonish these parents that it’s worth seeking out an accurate understanding of CRT rather than continue protesting in ignorance.
Tellingly, he instead uses it to admonish us to seek out a better understanding of their ignorant ideas.
It’s so weird how there’s never a burden on white conservatives to convince us of their sweaty-brained conspiracies, yet the burden on others to convince white conservatives to relinquish those conspiracies in favor of reality is enduring and everlasting and unquestioned.
Some believe that white conservatives are the main characters of America and that all others exist in context of them. This assumption comes out in a hundred different ways, including the unexamined assumption that all propositions are invalid without white conservative approval.
Some people seem to see the work of a public servant to involve making sure people’s lives are unbearably difficult, and I simply don’t think we ought to pay the salaries of such people.
We don't have to rewrite the 2A. We just have to interpret it correctly again. Correctly interpreted it would permit a total ban on the private sale of guns and ammunition, and we should pursue politicians who will appoint judges who will correctly rule to uphold such bans.
I cannot stress enough how this current state of affairs in which massacre has been normalized exists because people who wanted massacre normalized believed it could be and worked ruthlessly to make it happen.
We can change it back if we believe we can and work ruthlessly.
1) Princess Bride 2) Star Wars 3) Empire Strikes Back 4) Mary Poppins 5) Gods Must Be Crazy 6) The Sound of Music 7) Love & Death 8) The Jerk 9) Raising Arizona 10) Duck Soup 11) Spirited Away 12) The Music Man 13) Elf 14) My Fair Lady 15) Animal Crackers 16) A Night At The Opera