The official line out of the white house over this whole
comey thing is basically “what’s the problem? I thought all you liberals hated
this guy” and strangely enough it’s making me think again about the democratic
primary. Because both represent a flagrant abuse of power? Yes, but for another
reason, both show those in power grossly oversimplifying the politics of the
people. So here’s the trump administration saying, ‘liberals hate comey because
of the election, so nobody’s gonna care if I get rid of him’ and meanwhile
liberals all over the country are saying ‘ya we had an issue with him but that
doesn’t mean you can do whatever your fascist ass wants.’ Turns out that details
matter, context matter, and that the public is capable of having complex
opinions. Perhaps this is a new phenomenon as people are paying more attention.
So the democratic primary, remember when all the old pundits and journalists
were confused about young people supporting Bernie Sanders, because young
people were supposed to be all about equality and stuff and why would they
favor an old white man over the first woman president. Aren’t young people
supposed to be all about upsetting the status quo? Gee these millenials just
don’t know what they want. Well it turns out the young people do know what they
want, free healthcare, free education, closing the income gap, a more just
society. What we didn’t want was more pretty words and ugly wars, even if those
words were from the first woman president. Basically, I’m sick of identity
politics and I’m sick of politicians thinking I’m stupid.
single issue voting
My dad is an episcopal priest, who does a lot of work in interfaith dialogue. He always tells me that he finds it much easier to talk to members of a different religion than to non-affiliated ‘spiritual’ people or agnostics. His point was that people of faith understand each other, even if their religions are different; it doesn’t matter what you believe just believe in something, that was his take away. This same philosophy applies to politics and social issues. I’ve been told that one issue of the left is single-issue activists and single-issue protesting, but I don’t think that’s true. The issue is the lack of dialogue and cooperation across these single issues. If you believe passionately in women’s right to choose than your energy should be focused there, because that is where your energy does the most good. You don’t need to struggle to twist and pull women’s rights into black rights or gay rights, although perhaps womens rights was a bad example due to the existence of black...
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