Today, we stand on the precipice of a new relationship between government and governed. Republicans and Democrats will win, as election dollars flow. ALICE - and our community - will suffer.
Because if that was all you had to go by, you would presume these horrible actions are the fault of both those who identify as Republicans and those who identify as Democrats.
While a reading of the actual article, of the effects on the community and the quotes from those leading efforts which will be most effected - leave nothing to support such a conclusion.
Yes, the results are horrible, cruel, devastating. No doubt.
But I would love to know what the writer of the lead in thinks Democrats could do differently to change it.
Bend the knee in obedience and then beg for mercy, ala UVA, CBS, and various law forms, boards, and companies?
Vote differently? Every Democrat in both the House and Senate voted against it. Every one.
A couple of Republicans joined them, for now. But even they, especially in the House, were voting no because they didn't feel the bill was draconian enough, not that it was too devastating.
Democrats have fought in the courts, in the media, in protests - both large and small.
To me, they've done everything they can do, short of violence. What else would you see them do?
Whereas the other party, as a monolithic group which brooks little dissent, has not only crossed that line of violence, and then pardoned and rewarded those who did violence on their behalf. And they continue to do so in new and novel ways.
I hope Democrats, or anyone who refuses to bow to this tyrannical personality cult never feels the need to go to such an extreme. Though I will note it has happened in the past. That emblem got on Virginia's flag for a reason.
Still, while these good folk are using any legal and non-violent means they can think of to resist, certain members of the media, ahem, seem to take no stand other than to say it's horrible, and they all do it.
That ain't right. There's a difference, even if you can't/won't see it.
Now if you're talking the Chuck Schumers who angrily pushes his glasses down his nose while reading a bedtime story of how upset he is about the gutting of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and then mainly using it as a fund raising meme, can't say you're wrong.
But even for that - there are others taking stronger stands. And, as milquetoast as he, and the Warners and Kaines are - they are still easily discernible from those who are creating this crisis.
They are not the same as a Murkowski who gives a performative art lesson before caving in as she always does.
I guess I get it.
I have trouble with color blindness as I age into the abyss. In that I have a harder time picking out red from green than other folks. And, I also notice trouble with higher pitched sounds. Or lower amplitude ones.
I know Led Zeppelin at the end of the song is saying she's "barring the stairway to Heaven", but without my hearing aids, I know longer hear it.
Still, doesn't mean the words or colors aren't there. Just that I've lost the capability of seeing or hearing them.
I'm just glad to know that limited capacity has been limited to my physical senses, and not to my ability to reason. Wish I could say the same for others. Especially those with so much influence.
Out of curiosity, who writes the lead-in?
Because if that was all you had to go by, you would presume these horrible actions are the fault of both those who identify as Republicans and those who identify as Democrats.
While a reading of the actual article, of the effects on the community and the quotes from those leading efforts which will be most effected - leave nothing to support such a conclusion.
Yes, the results are horrible, cruel, devastating. No doubt.
But I would love to know what the writer of the lead in thinks Democrats could do differently to change it.
Bend the knee in obedience and then beg for mercy, ala UVA, CBS, and various law forms, boards, and companies?
Vote differently? Every Democrat in both the House and Senate voted against it. Every one.
A couple of Republicans joined them, for now. But even they, especially in the House, were voting no because they didn't feel the bill was draconian enough, not that it was too devastating.
Democrats have fought in the courts, in the media, in protests - both large and small.
To me, they've done everything they can do, short of violence. What else would you see them do?
Whereas the other party, as a monolithic group which brooks little dissent, has not only crossed that line of violence, and then pardoned and rewarded those who did violence on their behalf. And they continue to do so in new and novel ways.
I hope Democrats, or anyone who refuses to bow to this tyrannical personality cult never feels the need to go to such an extreme. Though I will note it has happened in the past. That emblem got on Virginia's flag for a reason.
Still, while these good folk are using any legal and non-violent means they can think of to resist, certain members of the media, ahem, seem to take no stand other than to say it's horrible, and they all do it.
That ain't right. There's a difference, even if you can't/won't see it.
Now if you're talking the Chuck Schumers who angrily pushes his glasses down his nose while reading a bedtime story of how upset he is about the gutting of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and then mainly using it as a fund raising meme, can't say you're wrong.
But even for that - there are others taking stronger stands. And, as milquetoast as he, and the Warners and Kaines are - they are still easily discernible from those who are creating this crisis.
They are not the same as a Murkowski who gives a performative art lesson before caving in as she always does.
I guess I get it.
I have trouble with color blindness as I age into the abyss. In that I have a harder time picking out red from green than other folks. And, I also notice trouble with higher pitched sounds. Or lower amplitude ones.
I know Led Zeppelin at the end of the song is saying she's "barring the stairway to Heaven", but without my hearing aids, I know longer hear it.
Still, doesn't mean the words or colors aren't there. Just that I've lost the capability of seeing or hearing them.
I'm just glad to know that limited capacity has been limited to my physical senses, and not to my ability to reason. Wish I could say the same for others. Especially those with so much influence.