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In reply to the discussion: Eugene Robinson asks a scary question [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)passionate belief. You imagine you're a bit different because you remember injustices forever, but we all do that. Those stick.
But most of us see, or just suspect, a lot of varied factors and situations too complex to leap to outrage. Over 2/3 of the people who call him Al and work and socialize with him have asked him to resign. We suspect there must be various reasons among all these peopleand hold off leaping to outrage.
I know I wonder why you would to throw 32 Democratic colleagues under the bus out of passionate support of one, without even learning why each of them have acted as they did. What did they do to make you think so incredibly poorly of them and is that based on their actions or is it something born within you? Could there conceivably be injustice in what you are doing?
As for your voting, right now the Republicans are
* dismantling progressive democratic government systems it took 200 years to develop,
* have no plans to refund the Children's Health Insurance Programs,
* are dismantling the ACA and planning the same for the VA, Social Security, and Medicare,
* are leaving Puerto Rico to die,
* are kidnapping people from churches and schools and putting them in detention camps,
* are canceling net neutrality so the internet can be better used to control us,
* are taking many, many other evil actions they know 330 million people don't want, and
* are even making their dark-money investments in destroying democracy tax deductible.
You decide what you should do. If we're worse, vote Republican and study up on rules for surviving on limited means in an authoritarian state. (#1--shut your mouth.)
If we're just as bad, or so bad it just doesn't matter, maybe go dig a hole and fill it in over you because that means it could never have been, and never will be, good under such as us?
Can't figure it out? Maybe look right and get outraged at the enormous injustices committed daily by Republicans?