“Two stunning political moments in the past 24 hours: Gov. Cox's eloquent appearance just now...and Bernie Sanders's extraordinary statement yesterday.”
Yeah, while I agree with the sentiment, the fact that he didn’t call out that Republicans are explicitly calling for political violence extremely loudly and not condemning Republican leadership for not tamping that shit down right now is disappointing.
I get the frustration, but he managed to get a bunch of right wingers to share and endorse his message. He got right wing people to commend a message that included calling out January 6th.
The outcome did more for getting right wing people to work toward tamping that down than focusing on calling them out ever would. Call them out when they are their most scared and they get defensive and escalate. Recognize their troubles right alongside their sins and you get a more productive response.
Dude’s always been too weak to call out evil when he sees it. He’s still peddling that “Israel has a right to defend itself” bullshit when no it never has and never will.
Yeah, while I agree with the sentiment, the fact that he didn’t call out that Republicans are explicitly calling for political violence extremely loudly and not condemning Republican leadership for not tamping that shit down right now is disappointing.
I get the frustration, but he managed to get a bunch of right wingers to share and endorse his message. He got right wing people to commend a message that included calling out January 6th.
The outcome did more for getting right wing people to work toward tamping that down than focusing on calling them out ever would. Call them out when they are their most scared and they get defensive and escalate. Recognize their troubles right alongside their sins and you get a more productive response.
This is why I’d be a bad politician. I couldn’t stomach pretending that the party leadership cares about democracy or fair play
Dude’s always been too weak to call out evil when he sees it. He’s still peddling that “Israel has a right to defend itself” bullshit when no it never has and never will.