Our current situation is: Republicans are actively doing harm to US citizens, partly for political advantage, partly for profit, partly because they want people harmed.
Many others would rather protect the rules and systems that allow this, than subvert those rules to fight it.
This is from my hometown, about the place where my wife works, and I encourage you to read it.
It describes a war zone.
The war is being waged by a political party acting to spread a virus and suppress all remedy.
They can do this because our system is designed to let them.
Our governor, a Democrat, took responsible & extraordinary precautions at the start of this pandemic, for which she was ritually attacked by the Republican president & her gerrymandered Rep. state legislature, & faced violent threat, plotting, & actions from Rep. voters.
But even if we didn’t have voters who plot to kidnap a governor or violently capture the state capitol, & sane state officials leading our state legislature, we’d remain helpless against a national Republican effort to spread the virus, & rules that let them.
They’re waging war.
Realizing the MI hospital in the thread isn’t named but what’s described maps so directly to our situation I just assumed.
The republican party is able to wage war against its own citizens in large part because our system allows it, and they are working diligently to demolish any remaining remedies that exist to check a political party that strategically harms, menaces, and kills its own citizens.
It’s an insurrectionist party. A confederacy. It’s waging war against U.S. citizens—against us—as its mainstream strategy, from its leadership down.
This isn’t a plan of action; this is an alarm. I just want to state, and have people recognize, that truth.
We are living in forced proximity to thousands or millions of people with a childish morality, and a psychopathic level of disregard for their fellow human beings; living in a system designed to give their selfish beliefs and preferences priority over the lives of the rest of us.
It's an intolerable situation, and intolerable that we are expected to go on tolerating it.
The republican party is waging war against the United States. Members should be barred from holding or seeking elected or appointed office. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/02…
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white conservatives think that what the 2nd amendment guarantees is not just the right for white people to bear arms, but the inviolable right for white people to be *presumed safe* while bearing arms, by both civilians and authorities, both before and after any killings
The suspect is a male, age 21 years, armed with several rifles and at least one handgun. Seven are dead, three others injured; authorities seek the gunman to find out if he is white, and, if so, what the dead did to deserve it, or perhaps how bad of a day he was having.
And yet so many 2nd amendment people are currently trying to overthrow the constitution, and shooting and threatening to shoot Black Lives Matter and other protesters who demand we followed it for the first time in the nation's history, it's weird.
If you'd do unethical shit to help out your brother if he's embroiled in scandal, you'd do unethical shit to help out your brother if he's not embroiled in scandal.
Not even knowing that a completely situational morality isn't something to proudly proclaim? That's our MattY!
"Before you go judging Andrew Cuomo for unethically using his media role to spread misinformation about the abusive practices of his brother, the Governor of New York, keep in mind he had a SERIOUS conflict of interests."
The downtown hospital in my MI city is getting National Guard medical to help deal with a massive surge of ~95% unvaxxed Covid patients—and all I can think is next time we have a Republican governor that won't happen b/c fighting deadly diseases is a partisan issue now.
The great idea of the Republican Party is that government is always bad, and therefore government will always fail ... which led them to strategically try to make government always fail ... which led, eventually, inevitably, to this.
It's a civic murder/suicide pact.
The idea of government preventing a million deaths is, apparently, a more terrible outcome to conservative politicians and the majority of their voters than is a million preventable deaths.
You know, reading back through this, it almost seems like some people are willing to spend more money to have a class of unhoused people than it would cost to simply house everyone, specifically to have a pretext for opposing public works projects that would benefit all, weird.