Serowbot wrote on 02/16/22 at 08:42:01:If anyone wants a deeper, more thoughtful forum,... post deeper, more thoughtful threads.
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Hi Serow, well that is sorta my point. The biggest political issue in the United States and one that will affect the entire world eventually if it keeps going in its current direction is the very serious threat to America's admittedly flawed, — but not without some redeeming features — democracy.
However the problem is that because the threat is clearly coming from the extreme Right wing of the GOP, that means by default that it cannot be discussed. Because that is having a go at the core values of those who love to disrupt everyone's thread.
I'm not expecting that I post this and suddenly everyone magically wakes up, it's just that I would personally find it interesting to find out what Americans who automatically and rabidly attack the Left, think of what is happening to democracy in your country right now, or if you guys even see it.
It's as if the genuine autocratic machinations that have exploded with the advent of Trump, is equal to another Benghazi and just another nothing burger, as they say, because it sure seems that way.
OK McConnell won and got his Supreme Ct Judges, I get it that the Right side of politics is happy but what I don't get is that why do your Right leaning judges, have to be rabid political toadies. Look at how measured Merrick Garland is at the moment, and while it's frustrating, that way better than having the DoJ serve as a personal lawyer to the President.
It's very possible that the GOP gains the House in 22 and if not Trump then someone equally weird. Look at Hawley for example he'd look good in a German SS uniform and Jackboots, same with Cawthorn.
There's plenty of Lefties that are flirting with looniness but I don't see any of them as being an existential threat.
And the fcuking gaslighting by the Supreme Ct pushing their extreme Right wing and unpopular agenda through midnight shadow docket single sentence pronouncements, all the while pretending that the Supreme Ct is non political.
It is really a good political dream to ensure your party governs forever? It is clear that this was the real point of Trump's three Supreme Court picks, not Roe v Wade.
The current GOP, has been created by Facebook, Bolsanaro was a Brazilian nobody nut job, Facebook and it's hate driven algorithms got him elected and now he is destroying the Amazon. His supporters after he was elected chanted Facebook! Facebook! Facebook! they knew. How the fcuk do you think a genuine idiot like Taylor-Green got elected, it beggars belief.