President Donald Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil marks one of Trump’s most egregious assaults on democratic liberties since taking office. Yet too many Democrats, particularly in party leadership, are responding to Trump in the most mealymouthed way possible. But this is a problem of Democrats’ own making: Their trepidation stems from their own history of repressing speech critical of Israel — and now we’re all at risk of paying the price for it.
Any time you have a group of people who can’t be criticized because of their protected status, members of that group will abuse it.
If you’ve read American history books, there is absolutely nothing new about this.
But that’s also a reason to be optimistic. It’s happened before and it didn’t last.
Democrats are the greater evil in this case, Republicans are openly vocal in their intents so we know what to expect from them. Democrats vocally oppose Republican actions, but end up supporting them and throwing their hands up claiming they were defenseless. Theyve turbo changed their ratchet effect the last several years.
Really? Intent matters?? Bull.
If you ever opened your eyes and examined results, well…you might have something useful to say. Probably not, but maybe.
Greater evil? One is being evil and the other is overly pragmatic.
Greater evil. Democrats are not pragmatic. They are enablers of right wing fascism and their ratchet effect ensures that it never slips back to something more progressive.
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Democrats will get nothing but grief. leftists tried to warn Democrats for decades that this is who their party is, and now that they’re in a downward spiral, they want to keep punching left at the people that told them that their party is shit. This is truly a we told you so moment.
You desired this outcome. And I hope it affects you and people you love.
Democrats refusing to listen gave us this outcome, refusing to see biden’s deficiencies and demanding a primary gave us this outcome. Accepting genocide as the ‘lesser evil’ gave us this outcome. Their selective outrage and refusing to hold their own people to the same standards they hold Republicans gave us this outcome. Refuse to accept responsibility for their failures gave us this outcome.
You got what you asked for: Trump. And, you are pleased with ever one of his actions. Now, there will be even more genocide that before! Good job!!!
Liberals gave us Trump both times and still won’t learn from their mistakes in 2028. Liberal ‘lesser evil’ gave us incremental fascism
I mean you’re not wrong, but what options were we presented with? It was always democrats or republicans for decades. The third party was always going to lose. What we needed was Bernie to win a primary, but I think we all know that was never going to be allowed.
Now we are going down the authoritarian government road China and Russia has been on for decades. Sounds like a shitty life for everyone but the rich.
Aside: My guess is Amazon announcing that Alexa would be monitoring all audio is just the start of the always-on monitoring China has with cameras in homes. I bet Trump will demand that everyone buy one, lol.
Which is exactly how you wanted it to happen.
Was there another option?
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If it was good old trying to weed out the commies McCarthyism, I’d be all down for it. Now I ain’t because it ain’t communism that’s the enemy.
I can’t imagine you’ve read much about McCarthyism because it didn’t take long for it to be many things that aren’t communism. Labour unions and homosexuality were just a couple things that could get you on their radar, and merely being brought before a committee could get you fired. House Un-American Activities Committee sounds more like their job description and not what they were trying to stamp out.
