I can’t even COUNT how many times this blog has warned that this level of incitement will end with CIVIL violence.
Unless the ‘analysts’, ‘contributors’, pundits, and in some cases ANCHORS, both REFUSE to cover the INCENDIARY and hyperbolic excesses of politicians whose success DEPENDS on incitement, EXCEPT in negative terms we will DESCEND into madness.
When a comedian holds up a bloody head of a politician, SHUN HER.
When leaders of a party go OUT OF THEIR WAY to use excessive language, EXCORIATE THEM.
When analysts spew birther fantasy like conspiracy theories without proof, ELIMINATE THEIR PRESENCE
When you hear people calling our leaders, D or R TRAITORS, IGNORE and/or ridicule them.
And so Jake Tapper, and Chuck Todd, think of the end point OUTSIDE OF YOURSELVES when you foolishly, meanly and inaccurately call the choice of the majority of the people in 2/3 of the states, UN-AMERICAN. And so, elected leader Trump, DON’T respond by calling them enemies of the people.
Of course, not ONE of these things is going to happen, because just like after Gabby Giffords, the lure of increased viewership and readership, and therefore $$ thru increased advertising revenue will be too tempting and on we go.
Just remember, the process begun by the murder of the elected Tribunes, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus in 133 BC ended with public proscription, and open force repression under a senate selected (‘constitutional’) dictatorship with Sulla. Between these dates, vast civil violence increasing in scope as opposite parties claimed power yielded a populace hungering for order, and not freedoms which had destroyed their ability to pursue happiness.
We are not exempt. And if this continues, no one here is going to be so worried about Kim, Xi, Putin, or Merkel and Gabron. They weren’t leading the news yesterday, were they?
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the majority of the people in 2/3 of the states...elected leader Trump
So, must that majority be subjugated? Eliminated?
At the least, the Jake Tappers et al of the world want to nullify the November 8 election results -- and are proceeding to do so.
I feel the descent into madness.
God help us.
AND "they" don't want to wait until 2020 to nullify the results of the November 8, 2016 elections.
Epa,
One of the members of Congress yesterday spoke of not wanting a personal security detail. He said, "I am a public servant." He spoke of the joy of being recognized and approached in the grocery store by someone who wanted to express a concern. At the end of the day, they ARE meant to be servants of the citizens and part of what makes our governance work.
I just wrote Little and Brown regarding their author Malcolm Harris. He tweeted out that hospitals make a lot of errors, so we should keep our fingers crossed regarding Congressman Steve Scalise.
As a registered nurse who has dealt with rifle trauma, seen the gallons of blood spilling from a wound, and the effects of severe bleeding I am well-aware that our Congressman may leave behind a widow and two small children in spite of the best of care. Internal organs do not do well without sufficient blood supply.
What kind of mean son's of bitches wish such a thing on anyone? Unless you have seen that level of trauma there is no real way to describe it.
So we have come to this? Really?
It is indeed madness.
TLEP,
One of the members of Congress yesterday spoke of not wanting a personal security detail. He said, "I am a public servant." He spoke of the joy of being recognized and approached in the grocery store by someone who wanted to express a concern.
Our elected public servants are going to have to wall themselves off for their own safety -- and for the safety of their families.
We are losing our system of governance. I think that the loss is inevitable. At least for the near future.
Epa, I think you would like MR's post of yesterday evening:
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2017/06/so-you-think-talk-of-being-salvo-of.html
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