(Despite a nagging little voice in the back of my mind saying, "don't respond", I shall one last time. So go ahead and get your last word ready.) Name calling? Merely apt descriptors. Firstly, it's the work of Republicans that got us here. Secondly, the three that Mr. Trump pushed into the position have demonstrated an inability to actually read precedent. With very few exceptions do their opinions meet muster of serious legal experts.
Of the many things that conservatives, Republicans, Trump-worshipers get wrong is this almost religious zeal that they are on the right side of history. But if history were actually studied (banning books won't help), it doesn't take a Rhodes scholar to see that this group of individuals is on the wrong side of history. Without taking the time and effort to teach what would be a multi-semester class on the intricacies (of which I would be wasting my time because no one in the cult would listen anyway), I can say that one of the main issues is that the movement has been long in the making. There is a romantic worship of an imagined past that never actually existed, "the good old days". It's Jim Crow coming back with a vengeance. It's a more than passing admiration of Herr Adolf and Co., a close study of Bernays. Misinformation turned into an art form. It's anti-intellectualism as a religion. It isn't liberal vs. conservative. It's progressive vs. regressive. The current party isn't trying to take us back to the 1950s, it's trying to take us back to the 1850s. As I asked the OP and received no response (because clearly their post was to create a flame war for their amusement), what is it that the so called Republican Party and its voters so terrified of? I think I can sum it up in one word, "change". Is change for the better guaranteed? No, of course not. But repeating the way that didn't work the first couple of hundred of years didn't work, what makes the modern GOP think that tweaking a few details is going to make it work in the 21st century? You know the saying about repeating the same action, expecting different results, right? And if we aren't even working with the same facts, then how can we even have a civil discourse? That has not really happened in modern history before. Sure different politicians could argue the merits of one another's stances. But never before did they not agree to facts. So until we can agree to facts, this, like many other discussions (online and in Congress) are pointless.
Well, this is where I get off of this merry-go-round of willful ignorance. Because those that refuse to learn from the past are doomed to repeat its mistakes (paraphrasing). I maintain that you and other "regressives" are wrong-headed, and could (if desired) give countless modern examples of how more progressive policies are not only workable, but beneficial to all. But I would be wasting my time. They would just pull the lever with the R next to it for spite in the next election. This gives me very little hope for a good future for my daughter. And it frankly saddens me greatly that on the eave of our 247th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence , so many are actively trying to push our country backwards, apparently fearing change. Jefferson and company were the antithesis to this. They were doing something that had never before been attempted and was doomed to fail, for all they knew. My ancestors had been here in the New World for nearly 200 years by that point. I shudder to think how they would react to the current animosity between Americans.
With that, I wish you all a Happy Independence Day, for we are all Americans, despite party affiliation (of which I have none, for the record (Washington warned against them for this very reason)). There are some of us that still remember that. I hope we all reflect on that on Tuesday.
Good night to all
