I intended on posting the journal about the Jeff Sessions and Comey hearings today, but then I woke up to see breaking news about Republican congressman Steve Scalise getting shot by an anti-Entropy, pro-Bernie supporter.
Just last night, I read an article about the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar, where the eponymous emperor is assassinated by rebellious senators. A theatre dressed Caesar up to resemble the Entropy for their rendition of the play, which evoked supreme ire from both sides of the aisle and the Entropy and his minions tried to use it to claim that he's the most mistreated politician of all time, even though the same has been done to just about every modern day President going all the way back to Reagan.
First, the meaning behind the play. The play is about the fragility of democracy, and how assassinating your political opponents, an undemocratic move, only leads to further bloodshed and threatens the very foundation of which democracy is built upon. Caesar's assassination causes the upheaval to rapidly spiral out of control until the bodies pile up in the streets and Rome is set ablaze. It does not support assassinating your political opponents, but rather heavily advises AGAINST it. Of course, the Entropy and his family, who have never opened a single book in their life, are completely blind to all culture that isn't drowning in excessive wealth and ego, much less the meaning behind Shakespeare's play.
What the shooter did is abhorrent, condemnedable and is not the practice of the left. It brings nothing but pain to all sides and damages not just the position of the party as a whole, but also threatens our democracy and breeds fear and persecution. I shouldn't have to say these things, but this is the culture we live in.
That all being said, the Entropy, his family, and the rest of the Republican Party should shut the hell up and not be so quick to judge and cry over the "toxic culture" that one of their own have now fallen victim to. This is a culture that has been in our political discourse for essentially the entire history of our country, going back to its founding. Of our 44 Presidents (sic), four have been assassinated while in office (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy) while two more were injured (Roosevelt and Reagan) and who knows how many had someone at least make the attempt or threat (Jackson being one who caned his would-be assassin). We pound the drums for war hard in this country while media heads cry tears of faux patriotism at watching bombs drop on other countries we don't like. We call a movement against everything a war, from the War on Terror to the War on Drugs to War on Poverty. We heavily endorse capital punishment across all echelons of our society, from the highest offices to the most dilapidated trailer parks. At our core, despite all the balking at violence when it actually occurs, we crave violence and encourage it as a solution for everything.
Better yet, the current generation of the Republican party called for violence against their political opponents numerous times in recent memory:
Sharon Angle called for "second amendment remedies" against the Democrat-led Congress and specifically Harry Reid back in 2011.
Sarah Palin's PAC on her website identified 20 House Democrats on a map using gun sights while using very explicitly militant language. One of those identified was Gabby Giffords, who was later shot in the head by a right wing would-be assassin.
George Tiller, an abortion provider, was portrayed on right wing media as a baby killer while the talking heads passively encouraged violence against him.
Rush Limbaugh, extreme right wing radio talk show host, encouraged violence multiple times, most notably suggesting killing all liberals except for a few of them so they can be put on display like animals. He also praised the elected mayor in Montana who tackled a reporter on the night of the election for asking him a question, calling it "manly".
There's all those threats and attacks made against Muslims and mosques by the right wing, including the calls to round them all up in internment camps or worse.
There's the explosion of threats made against President Obama during his two terms, which had spiked to over 400% from the Bush era.
The head of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners in 2013 called for open season on hunting Democrats back in 2013.
Ted Nugent proudly proclaimed he was going to kill Obama during the 2012 re-election, not to mention everything else he has done.
Andrew Breitbart, founder of the alt-right wing media company of the same name, openly encouraged not just killing and threatening Democrats and liberals at gunpoint, but also their children.
Right-wing terrorism in general is much more prevalent in the US than any other form of domestic terrorism, according to the FBI.
Oh yeah, let's not forget the Entropy himself, who also passively called for his Dissonant supporters to kill Hillary Clinton during the campaign, who cavalierly promoted killing the families of terrorists, who endorsed war crimes to raucous applause, who commanded his crowds to attack dissidents in their midst, which ended up including his own supporters, who called the media the enemy of the people (except for Breitbart and Infowars, which among other things encourage extreme violence), and who invited Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin into the oval office to take a picture with him.
And that's all just in recent memory, all that I can find or remember in thirty minutes of research and without breaking my vow to never utter or type the Entropy's name. This is a well the right wing has fueled and stoked for DECADES, now, and it was much more violent and vitriolic under Obama. Only now, when it has backfired on them and one of their own is injured do they cry foul.
Every group will find at one point or another an extremist in their midst commit violence like this, but this does not make it perfectly even on all sides. One group is much more guilty of it than all the others in this country, and it is a grave disservice to everyone, including you and reality itself to try and claim otherwise. The act itself is abhorrent, but it is also karma for the party that has very disproportionately sown these oats of violence and brass for so many years in the face of opposition. It did not begin with the Entropy, and it will not end with the Entropy.
The Entropy will be inevitably impeached and removed as his corruption is pulled out into the light. We will fight back with ideas and justice, not by gun or by sword. Violence will only beget more violence; do NOT forget the warnings of Shakespeare.
Impressive how you know all things (assuming most from your head) o.o If only everyone in a democracy were so interested in what happens in the country and the world.. :/
Impressive how you know all things (assuming most from your head) o.o If only everyone in a democrac
I regularly play videos in the background while I play games or write or draw or whatever I am doing; it also helps to have a very good long-term memory. It's a habit I picked up while I was in college, working on one assignment or another that ended up being an exercise in tedium. It started when I was just listening to some videos about the 2008 election, roughly half a year after Obama became President. I knew Palin and McCain were bad news DURING the election, but what I learned afterwards was a new dimension in the awfulness, and I realized how much I didn't know at the time, and how much others didn't know or care, and how closely we skirted with having either of them in the White House.
It ended up being a conviction since then to remain informed on current events, for a fat load of good that did this election cycle. Among my family and their friends, for example, so many of them were attached to right wing media like Fox News or preferred their personal head canon over provable facts. I listened to them for so many years claim endlessly how Obama was a secret Muslim who would replace the Constitution with Sharia law, and those were just the mild ones.
The electronic age makes it easier than ever to keep up with the news or do research, if you know where to look. It may sound elitist and anhedonic of me, but people could learn a lot more if they cut back on the garbage reality TV and stop loling at each other on Facebook and Twitter for several hours (though to be fair, I have my own block of anime and TV shows to cut through).
That being said, it is very tiring and exhaustive. Most people just don't have the drive to engage in politics, especially because it's so polarizing, and decades of mismanagement has created this fatalist/defeatist culture and mindset that nothing will ever change no matter what people do or who goes into office, that all politicians are incompetent, feckless scum, and people end up tuning out right at the start. This administration is the end result of all our collective political and cultural sins from the past 70 years, and at long last, people are prepared to fight against both the status quo and the nightmare world the Entropy has promised, and bypass all politicians, including Sanders himself, and push for the change they want directly rather than through a proxy.
But above all else, it starts with the people being informed, and that's why I post these journals.
I regularly play videos in the background while I play games or write or draw or whatever I am doing
mmm... excluding the fact the man was a democrat or what ever his political affiliation is, what this man has done is uncalled for and should taken to court for it, let his piers judge him for his worth and values before either throwing him to death row, or live in prison with no parole., granted this is why i'm a free thinking indepenant patriot that believes more in the ideal's of George Washington. that there should be no party...., ... ok that sounds like for anarchy but i'm not, there should be a system in place where no one should feel they have to choose a side or in this chase party and not worry about being prosecuted for their choices.... and not go running around on a killing spree just cause they are upset cause of current potical events. please feel free to agree or disagree I shall not judge thy.
mmm... excluding the fact the man was a democrat or what ever his political affiliation is, what thi
It was an almost inevitable outcome. Actually they captured him alive, but then he later died from his injuries from the shootout between him and the security detail.
It was an almost inevitable outcome. Actually they captured him alive, but then he later died from h
We already do have such a system in place. It's called registering as an independent, which I am.
The point of political parties originally was a group of people getting together and uniting under a common ideal. In recent years this has become corrupted on all sides for different reasons.
The right emphasizes personal responsibility while trying to excuse the malicious actions of the few that harm us all, personal freedom (so long as you say, believe and do things they agree with), Constitutional rights (until they become inconvenient), pro-life policies (while advocating and beating the drums of war harder than anyone else and supporting capital punishment), and Biblical morality (which they violate on a regular basis without realizing it).
The (establishment) left is addicted to continuing the status quo of Kabuki theater politics (make a big show of everything, but ultimately do nothing substantive) and (on the constituent side) have a tendency to enforce ideological purity over pettiness (vegans attacking ovo vegetarians [vegetarians who eat eggs]). There's also the great divide in general between the establishment democratic party and their constituents, and long story short, that's what led to the formation of the Justice Democrats after the election last year.
Both sides are also guilty of playing party politics, supporting or opposing one policy or another, even if they agree with it, just because the other side supports or opposes it. That mentality ruined the Republican Party even more than they already were, and it radicalized them to the point that they refused to pay back our debts just to spite Obama, causing our credit rating to drop for the first time in our history.
So yeah, political parties aren't inherently bad. It's just that we have an extremely poor example of it at the moment.
We already do have such a system in place. It's called registering as an independent, which I am. T
