Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

The Proud Boys etc. and Antifa are all the same to rational people.  They are a tiny minority population of criminals who mask their crimes in political rhetoric.  But hey, they almost brought the United States to its knees on Jan 6, right?  That was sarcasm, in case anyone missed it.

The ability of people to overestimate the political impact of the criminal enterprises of a tiny group of criminals amazes me.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Bring out the indictments then!  If Trump is proved in court to have "orchestrated" Jan 6, then I am fine with hanging him till death in front of the Capitol as a message to all traitors.   When does the trial start? 

Until then, you are just the consumer and the purveyor of ridiculously overheated rhetoric.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Dave:  

Here is my bottom line.  Politicians talk a lot more than they act.  So, R politicians may spout off about agency spending and agency authority run amok.  D politician may support calls to defund the police.  Talk is cheap.  Action is rare.  Occasionally the politicians might introduce a bill to limit or expand agency authority in some way.  Occasionally citizens groups might litigate and fight specific agency actions or rules.  There is a lot of good tension in the system.  

But no one, literally no serious politician, is calling for abolishing SS, Medicare, the EPA, public education or other institutions.  This is as plain as day if you look around.

The reality of US governance does not stop alarmists on the left from exhuming an Ayn Rand fantasy wish list from 1980 as evidence of R intent any more than it stops their soul mates (I couldn't resist, hope you get the joke)... any more than it stops their soul mate alarmists on the Right from claiming loudly and persistently that the Democrats are one tiny step away from a Chavez-style communist dictatorship.

Alarmist rhetoric is part of the political scene.  That does not make it any less stupid and detached from reality.  We should all, left and right, consider the reality of governance when faced with the rantings of an alarmist ideolog of either flavor.  Jim