Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's JournalI don't believe that we should be mean-spirited towards anti-vaxxers
nor celebrate their deaths, but we should definitely be encouraging people to get vaccinated in order to control the pandemic and bring it to heel. Letting it just spread unchecked and give it the opportunity to spawn more and more variants, especially ones that render the vaccines we have less and less potent, is not a good plan. I'm not sure what "legitimate, alternative points of view" you're referring to. If somebody is spreading disinformation, especially purposefully, it needs to be strenuously challenged/corrected.
Democrats have lot of ideas
And try to listen and help everybody. But we just end up getting shouted down and smeared as communists or socialists and Republicans sit on their hands and refuse to help anybody and then actually run on doing nothing (and too often win). Figuring out how we counter those smears and Republican obstructionism seem like the real conundrums.
Bounty Laws
Admittedly, I'm not a legal expert, but how can laws like the Texas abortion ban (and possibly other similar laws coming soon to attack CRT and Transgender children) both be enforceable and yet beyond judicial review? I don't understand how people can't simply ignore the law because the instant somebody gets sued under the law, they would have to submit to judicial authority. The Courts are operated by the government, who would be responsible for hearing these cases and rendering judgement (and presumably enforcing any resulting judgements), at which point people being sued under these laws should *theoretically* be able to challenge the law and/or any sanctions imposed (i.e. $10000 bounty), shouldn't they? I hope I'm explaining my point clearly enough. The whole point of these laws seem to be having a "chilling effect" on whatever the law is targeting- that is to say, discouraging people from even engaging in the proscribed behavior out of fear of being sued for $10000. Some anti-choice activists have even said as much, when somebody actually filed a lawsuit against a provider.
I'm not scared of Trump per se
I'm just scared of what might happen if he manages to get elected again and that enough Americans might be willing to put him back in office again- or that Republicans will beg, steal, or borrow just enough to ensure that he ekes out another EC win. There are some signs that some in the GOP are getting tired of Trump and want him to go away, just not sure that there are enough of them to prevent him from being renominated in 2024. I'm just hoping that there is, if nothing else, so much damning information about Trump, particularly in regards to 1/6, that nobody but a handful of Republicans want him to run again. Of course, if he doesn't run, there are more "polished" Trump-aligned Republican authoritarians like Ron DeSantis waiting in the wings to run, however, hopefully, things are good enough in 2024 that Biden is practically a lock for re-election.
Inciters gonna incite
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