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In reply to the discussion: Sanders: 'Trump is right' on Australian healthcare system [View all]BainsBane
(53,016 posts)Should politicians be tweeting about it? What purpose does it serve? I just saw the tweet in question now. https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9026048
I don't see what context I'm supposed to be missing. It was one sentence. Why on the very day that Trump celebrates depriving millions of Americans of healthcare is it necessary to send out a tweet saying he is right about something related to healthcare? Trump had an opportunity to put forward a plan for an Australian-type healthcare proposal. He chose mass murder instead. THAT is the issue. That is what the focus should be. Not that he happened to say something factual. Why should that even matter? What possible relevance does it have to the horror Trump just inflicted on the nation?
Bernie clearly had a reason for tweeting what he did. That reason is what should concern you, not that some citizens have the audacity to ask why he felt compelled to do it. Bernie doesn't habitually send out tweets pronouncing people right or wrong about public statements, does he?
But yes, I understand that as a subject--since citizenship is now passe-- I have no right to question those in power. My role is to acquiesce, to exist in a permanent state of obsequiousness. Bernie is right. Trump is right. Trump voters are even more right. My speech, my concerns about sanguinity in the face of a policy of mass murder, that is unacceptable.
So tell me what intellectual integrity you think you are upholding here?