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In reply to the discussion: Gun control is a distraction, a minor issue [View all]BainsBane
(53,154 posts)are minor. A culture of violence, war and militarization, minor. Human life pales in comparison to what you care about, which is what exactly? "Peaceful society"? There is no peaceful society when we exist in a continual state of domestic war, when police kill citizens and people like you turn a blind eye and call it minor.
The callous disregard for human life is appalling.
Additionally, pretending to care about corporations while referring to the corporate gun lobby's takeover of our democracy as "a distraction" is hypocritical. There are the single biggest and most powerful lobby in Washington and do more to erode our basic rights than any other. To turn a blind eye to that is to show no regard for "a more connected peaceful, society." You tell me my life and the lives of people in my community are a minor concern, and you claim you want connection? Bullshit. Without respect for human live, for justice in poor communities over the power of the corporate gun lobby, you can't for a minute expect me to believe you give even the slightest shit about a "connected, peaceful, fair society." I'm sick of hearing the privileged tell the rest of us how little we matter. You don't give a fuck about our lives, so fuck your elitist politics.
This is the last straw. The complete contempt for the poor and disenfranchised by people claiming to be liberals is repulsive. You want everyone to forsake their basic rights, and now even our lives, to satisfy the white middle- and upper-middle class' anger at Wall Street. You are not worth more than the people being killed by guns in the inner city, though it's pretty clear you think you are. The arrogance and disregard for human life is as contemptible a position as I've seen. If that is what supporting Sanders is about, hell will freeze over before I empower people who openly dismiss the deaths of millions of Americas, more dead through gun violence since 1968 than in all the wars in US history. How could their lives matter compared to your desire for an entertainer in chief to be on cable TV and make you feel good about yourselves? This post shows those words of "connected and peaceful" are complete artifice when you invoke them to justify millions of deaths.
Congratulations for sinking Sanders' candidacy. I knew if anyone could do it, it would be people on this site. People here are a prime example of why no one outside your little in-crowd wants anything to do with you or your elitist class project. You keep up the great and noble fight for the 10 percent vs. the 1 percent. I'm going to look after myself because clearly you don't give a shit ablout my basic right to life, a mere "minor concern."