It's hard to be a democrat and not be a victim at the same time.Forest Bueller_bf said:It is excessive.Porteroso said:AOC gets actual letters from people saying they want to rape her. I think she is ignorant and backwards in some of her politics, but she gets to say she's afraid of being raped, when the same people who want to rape her are taking over the Capitol. It's not excessive victimization, it's just the reality of what many politicians have to endure.Forest Bueller_bf said:Porteroso said:
This is typical democracy at work. Trump almost sparked a need for action, when he had conversations about using the National Guard to force states to throw out their results, but in the end, the generals refused. They were so adamant that their refusal to become politically involved enabled the Jan. 6 insurrection, the day they were asked to police the protest-turned-riot.
We often romanticize the politics of the past, for a variety of reasons, foremost because the victor writes the history, and rarely spends time giving the loser, or the battle, its fair due. But we have had these struggles many times, even if we rarely remember. Presidents and Congresses have grievously abused their power, over and over.
If there is anything new about the abuses of power today, it is our willingness to be victims, our lack of pride. America is more and more willing to whine and cry about perceived slights. I may be romanticizing the past, but it seems past Americans fought through injustices, only giving them the thought they needed to defeat them. MLK did not spend much time complaining about the media's treatment of him, or what the government was doing to undermine his movement. He certainly addressed those issues, but he was always pushing forward, dishing out a consistent message, no matter the opposition. He saw a united America in the future, and worked towards that.
- Both political parties today seem to only see division. Because there is only good and evil, there is no desire to compromise, or work together, so they work to injure the other, and get everything they want. Instead of pushing forward, they spend time on their victimhood, creating massive injuries out of thin air. Politically, we are more or less at a stalemate, but the rhetoric paints a very different picture, each side believing itself to be the true Americans, the other working to destroy humanity.
We need to wonder, why is it that our politicians seek to divide us so? What does the government gain when it is at a stalemate, and the people hate each other?Man AOC has gotten a lot of victimhood mileage out of this one. It's allowed her to ramble on about her favorite fictional enemies. The percentage of people that actually believe in real white supremacy in the US is tiny, extremely tiny. And still not sure what her hang up is with the nuclear family unit where there is an order that holds the fabric of society together.Quote:
Josephine Harvey
Mon, August 9, 2021, 8:26 PM
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said she was afraid on Jan. 6 that she would be sexually assaulted if the violent pro-Trump mob that breached the U.S. Capitol that day managed to find her.
The lawmaker, who has spoken about how she hid for hours in the barricaded office of a colleague during the violence, discussed the day of the insurrection in an interview with CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash, set to air Monday night.
"White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways. There's a lot of sexualizing of that violence," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I didn't think that I was just going to be killed. I thought other things were going to happen to me as well."
Asked if she feared she was going to be raped, Ocasio-Cortez said, "Yeah, I thought I was."
She also spoke about the way racism and misogyny were deeply rooted in the Capitol attack, and how they "animated" the events that took place.
I'm not sure if I'm that concern about her fantasy world viewpoint of what happened at the Capital, they were going for Pence and possibly Pelosi, AOC was in a different building, in an adjacent complex. She may have perceived threat, but she is overplaying it, and in hindsight should know better. She is simply trying to score political points for her screwball ideology. She is nothing but a divider, it is all she will ever be.
But, I'm more concerned with the growing sentiment from radial progressives that the natural order needs to be broken apart. The natural order of being, which is a Mother and Father leading a household with children subject to their authority. The traditional nuclear family. In other words the glue of any properly functioning society. These idiots actual want to break down the structure that holds us together. Without this being the structure that is held up as the model or normal way a family should function, we have seen what happens in neighborhoods where that structure is broken down to be the minority of households with children, the fabric that makes that neighborhood a functioning neighborhood is broken.
Politicians who sow discord are always going to get threats. They have always gotten threats. Trump has had many threats, as I'm sure Pence, and Pelosi and Cruz and Abbott and all others have. You ever go online to see some of the nut websites and people ramble about how they are going to kill all white people when the get the chance. Those idiots exist too.
AOC can say she felt threatened she may have, but when she starts rambling about White Supremacy and Patriarchy, she is jumping the shark. She always plays the victim, then she victimizes others with her words. Condemning people as racist for nothing other than the sin of being born white.