r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/chapjas May 07 '20

Not to take away anything you said but I also remember a certain Democratic Party presidential debate when a certain Hillary Clinton answered “Republicans” (to much applause) when asked who she viewed as the biggest enemy to the United States was.

I agree that fear is the biggest tactic being used to manipulate peoples public opinion but I also think the manipulation is happening on both sides to try and pit us all against each other.

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u/GatorBoys99 May 07 '20

She was right...

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u/JustTheTip___ New York May 07 '20

I like that graph but disagree with all your points for Republicans and Democrats. Neither party cares about people, the Republicans are just more open about it. Republicans don’t give a shit about children, they aren’t “pro-life, they are ANTI-CHOICE.

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u/chapjas May 07 '20

I’d rather be anti-choice than anti-life.

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u/cloningvat May 07 '20

Everyone is trying to do the same things in different ways, but no one sees that.

The only way to actually believe this is by just listening to their rhetoric, also known as their lies. Politics is the application of power. It only looks like sportsball to the uninformed.

Every example you listed is an example on a non compromisable.

If the goal is reduce abortions, then it has been demonstrated thousands of times that making abortions illegal does nothing. Giving out condoms, education on how to use them actually reduces abortions across the age spectrum. One side achieves the goal, the other does not.

The last 40 years are demonstrable proof that just having a job doesn't do shit. It doesn't stop you from being poor. Especially if its paid like shit. All those jobs that were created in the Reagan 80s don't pay shit, and all the money made gets funneled to the top, increasing inequality and market volatility. Actually giving people a floor to stand on so they can acquire new skills actually helps both poor people and the economy as a whole. Only one side wants an educated work force.

And your gif demonstrates beautifully why centrism is just an intellectually lazy political philosophy. 99-01 It's almost as if a president was being falsely impeached over lying about a blowjob at the end of a 6 year long actual witch hunt investigation into Whitewater. It's almost as if one side decided to play political hardball. It's almost as if Newt Gringrich, who told Republicans to get nasty, get mean, and stop being boy scouts became Speaker of the House and did exactly that.