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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: [OT] What is happening in/to the US ?
Date: 22 Jul 2024 13:01:21 -0000
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In article <v7bce3$3k676$1@news.xmission.com>, Richard <> wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, how have you been responding to all the people
>who repeatedly ratched up the hysterical incendiary rherotic by constantly
>calling Trump "Hitler" and constantly claiming he is a threat to democracy
>and so-on.

You see, Americans traditionally have not approved of authoritarian 
governments.  We did actually start the country in reaction to a British
king who was becoming increasingly oppressive.

Therefore many Americans react badly to a politician who promotes 
authoritarian ideals.  Just making jokes about how you'd love to be
President for Life or talking about tyrannical dictators as being
your good friends is offputting to many Americans.

The American government is supposed to be a government of laws and not
of people.  People who do not believe that laws should apply uniformly
to everyone or who believe that one person should get a pass because
that person will fix everything remind us of dictators, and we do not
like dictators.

>IMO, those people are somewhat culpable for creating an environment
>where violence is deemed OK by nutjobs because it makes them feel like
>they are the "heroes", although ultimately responsibility for any violence
>comes back to the perpretrators.

How so?  It strikes me that if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a
duck, it is probably a duck.  That doesn't mean violence is acceptable.

>I'm also assuming that you condemned tha attempted assassination of
>Republican Congressman by a deranged leftist at their baseball practice
>a few years ago.

I certainly did, although of course I am a conservative.  And as a 
conservative, I am looking forward someday to a time when I can vote
Republican again.
--scott
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