As ever, I do not like basic news briefs, so I try not to write them.
Today, I review recent hateful remarks from a certain US presidential candidate, Argentina's latest crackdown on protests, and how the pain of IDF's killing of three surrendering hostages sits in a country that's been protesting Netanyahu's choices all year.
Whether in war, migration, or economic crises, democracies are hard to build, and easy to lose. We have deep political wounds to try to heal.
https://onlysky.media/mclark/us-argentina-israel-and-a-world-of-normalized-extremes/
That's very much what I talk about here: the fact that trying to address his rhetoric doesn't do any damage to him, not the way "deplorables" did to Clinton. The nature of the threat is different, and legacy media doesn't know how to report on these remarks without making them more useful on the campaign trail.
(I don't, either, except by naming the fact that reporting on them is an ineffective way to diminish their power - which is why I do when having to name That Name at all.)
:) We Canadians *are* a menace though, aren't we?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees the danger of replicating his rhetoric without having a plan to deal with its consequences - but I'm definitely not surprised you'd be the one to note that danger, too. Cheers, my friend. Hope your Florida day isn't too full of people carting their BS around!
@MLClark Yeah, Colombia didn't secure their northern border, and look at all the Canadian riff-raff who slipped across. 😘
Trump couldn't care less about consequences. His entire life, others cleaned up the catsup after he threw it against the wall.
I just hope the American electorate are smart enough this time to turn out in droves and hand him a lopsided defeat -- especially in "purple" states because we can't let him slip in via the electoral college.
"Smart" isn't the part that worries me. A lot of "smart" people are also cruel, and don't care if they lose the whole of US democracy to sustain their sense of control.
We've seen that feeling - that desire to make others suffer more than you're suffering, to live as if only *you* matter - take centre stage plenty in the last few years.
I don't need you fine folks to be "smart" as much as I sorely hope enough of you will be kind. :) Fingers crossed that more Stephens will arise!
@MLClark More likely that the non-Stephens will burn me at the stake, but I digress ...
As loathsome as it was to reverse Rowe, I'm hopeful that will motivate people to go to the polls to vote out the Republicans. If SCOTUS bans mifepristone, I think we'll seeing pitchforks and burning torches in the streets.
The latest Texas cases are definitely getting a few folks ready to sharpen their pitchforks / voting styluses! It's just infuriating that people need to suffer all over again to reinvent the wheel.
@MLClark The "certain US presidential candidate" spews that rhetoric because he knows it will get him adulation from those in attendance, which translates into money that funds his various legal defenses.
Does he really believe it? Who knows. His first and third wives are immigrants. But his audience assumes he's referring to non-white immigrants.
(Funny how he never mentions the Canadian border ...)
All this will be used in clips that will air during the general election.