How can we stop the madness taking over America's politics?

[Celerity]

A surge of violent threats against leaders should be a wakeup call for all Americans

https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/how-can-we-stop-the-madness-taking



Donald Trump is back at it again, saying in a post on his Truth Social online media venture that Senate Republican Mitch McConnell has a “DEATH WISH” for working with Democrats to pass legislation. In typical Trump fashion, the two words were in ALL CAPS for emphasis. He also threw in a racist jibe about McConnell’s Asian American wife, Elaine Chao, who served as Trump’s transportation secretary.

In typical GOP fashion, most top Republican Party officials refused to condemn the remarks, even when given the opportunity to do so, including Florida Senator Rick Scott, who runs the GOP Senate’s campaign organization. Mainstream commentators like the Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty and the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board condemned Trump’s latest outrage, but they don’t have to worry about getting the approval of Republican voters who are still in the thrall of Trumpism weeks before midterm elections.

Some might try to just brush off these latest Trump remarks, but it’s important to remember this is the guy who helped incite the biggest attack on U.S. Congress in centuries, an assault that came close to killing Trump’s own vice president. Plus, hints at threats of violence come at a sensitive juncture in America’s democracy. America has been sharply divided along partisan lines for years, with worrisome signs that these bitter splits could turn violent:

Violent threats against members of U.S. Congress increased more than tenfold since 2017 to 9,625 recorded cases in 2021, according to the Capitol Police, the federal law enforcement department in charge of protecting Congress.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Vote for Democrats.

The right wing is getting ginned up to start killing "other" Americans.

[walkingman]

2. ***** Like above says - This is the only way

[ret5hd]

3. My opinion (with no backing facts):

When Putin is dislodged/dies, you will see an almost instantaneous decline in the rhetoric, overt violence, and political “pure-fuckin’-destructiveness”.

Definitely NOT saying everything will be blue sky and roses, just…noticeably better.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Intelliegence gas

But that's available only in Web 4.0 (2030).

[2naSalit]

7. As long as it counteracts...

This stuff!

&t=4s

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. Oh boy......

I think this was 2nd gen Boris/Natasha/Rockie/Bullwinkle...

But I enjoyed this immensely.

60 years later, we're back to these cartoons.

[2naSalit]

9. They're still...

Relevant today!

[Sky Jewels]

5. We must find big money players to change the media landscape.

Right wing radio, Fox News, etc. have been poisoning the minds of tens of millions for decades. Why can’t the left figure out how to counter this?

[empedocles]

6. Vote appeal beyond the usual Dem confines would help.

[milestogo]

10. Relying on elections alone to stop Republicans is like

using a kayak paddle to stop the shark in Jaws.

[Celerity]

12. that is a fear of mine as well, and if the RW-stacked SCOTUS upholds the twin insanties of

the Independent State Legislature Theory (which could result in a Dem POTUS winning both the national popular vote (which is meaningless) AND the Electoral College via that popular vote in individual States, BUT a Rethug POTUS ends up selected by Rethug trifecta controlled States' Electoral College slates being flipped in numbers large enough to flip the result to the Rethug POTUS) and also Foetal Personhood (which outlaws almost all abortions nationwide, and could, in theory, even outlaw 'LIFE of the mother' exceptions) the wheels are off the cart, as there is NO appeal. At that point, we likely will have open Blue State defiance (of Foetal Personhood), which will likely lead to Red States tossing out SCOTUS decisions from the past THEY do not like, and then, perhaps, IF the Rethug trifecta-controlled swing States flip the outcome at POTUS level, massive kinetic violence and full blown secession movements.

Time will tell if the RW SCOTUS is ok with becoming a potential national suicide pact.

[Initech]

11. Cut off the echo chamber. Completely.

And I mean all of it. Fox, AM radio, Sinclair, social media. I know that it's policing speech and I don't want to touch that argument with a 10 foot pole. But fuck, something has to be done!