“Meet me in the middle,” says the unjust man.

You take a step toward him. He takes a step back.

“Meet me in the middle,” says the unjust man.
Again beyond the fact that compromise with fascists is philosophically undesirable and morally unsupportable, it’s also impossible as a simple practical matter.

They desire only domination. They believe only they are legitimate. By definition this leaves no room for compromise.
Since the Obama presidency represented an 8 year commitment to compromise proving definitively that compromise with Republicans is impossible, it’s simultaneously horrifying and frustrating to see Obama’s VP waste the first year of his presidency needlessly re-proving it.
It seems so bloody obvious it shouldn’t need to be said, much less attempted, but you can’t create solutions with people who want the problems.

you can’t create solutions with people who want the problems.
There seem to be people who take this as a call to give up.

I disagree. It’s a call to stop giving up.

Voting for people to represent us is important, but expecting results is just as important. Expecting them to stop pursuing failed strategy is a part of that.
Going into 2020, there was a sense Republican obstructionism and authoritarianism will require drastic unilateral action if we were to save our democracy and our planet.

Biden’s pitch was, no, I can convince them to work with us. I know them. They’ll change.

They didn’t change.
He thought they’d change. They didn’t. McConnell is 100% committed to his failure.

So, time for HIM to change.

Yes, Manchin and Sinema present obstacles. If they weren’t obstacles, there would still be others.

Job is to overcome the obstacles.

Failure isn’t an option.

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Everything Trump intended to do was clear long before July 2017.
Incidentally I could have sworn this was something we already knew he had done, but possibly it’s just so obviously something he would do that I’ve been taking it as given. Certainly he’s advocated similar violence in public context with cameras rolling.
During the protests last year, for example, he advocated retributive police murder — and not in the abstract, but giving his blessing to a specific example.

He pardoned a war criminal who murdered civilians. A sheriff who ran a desert concentration camp.
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And capitalism demands that all products grow.
Before allowing capitalism to be involved in anything, we should first decide if we want it to grow.

Even we do want growth, before allowing capitalism to be involved, we should place clear boundaries on how much growth we want, and what should take priority over growth.
Capitalism is a rough beast that desires slavery and will kill to get it. It should be handled as such.
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The fact that an organization is making a martyr of one of its own fallen, dead in a terrorist action, and using them as a recruiting tool, tells us that it is a terrorist organization, and the delicate dance being performed around this fact is frustrating and dangerous.
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Same same.
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If you’re a Republican and the sort of thing disturbs you, the way you stop it is by leaving the republican party forever.

if you’re a Republican and the sort of thing disturbs you, and you don’t leave the republican party forever, no it doesn’t actually disturb you.
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