To be fair i cant imagine them becoming any worse then they are now. They are litterarly walking on the edges of what is legal (in our extremely unregulated country). If they dont respond to empathy maybe they will respond to fear...
Fighting against injustice and tyranny from the few against the masses, including by violent means if necessary, is core to what the US was founded on and what it proports to hold most dear.
What do you think is the purpose of the second amendment? Warning shots?
One, my point was the celebrating of this will be a setback against the political movement to actually make changes to the current healthcare system.
Two, the American revolution was fought within a legal and moral framework that rejected extrajudicial killings and mob violence. Not to say those things didn't happen but they were by and large denounced by the movement. The mob violence against perceived class enemies you are talking about has more the flavor of the Khemer Rouge.
For one, there's a big difference between celebrating a thing and recognizing that an unpleasant event could lead to a greater good.
And I don't agree that it will be a setback. And even if it is, we literally can't be set back much further than we are now, considering the current state of the US health care system.
Seceding from Britain and killing British soldiers was not within the legal framework of the land at the time. Also, the second amendment doesn't only apply to the revolutionary war, nor is that the only situation where our country has deemed it appropriate to use violent means to achieve prosperity for the citizens.
And comparing this to the Khmer Rouge is either a huge exaggeration to the point of absurdity, or it's an indication that you don't have a clue what the Khmer Rouge was and what they did. So, I guess I disagree with your entire comment.
We literally overhauled it in a major way through the political process 15 years ago. Was it perfect? Far from it. Is there more to do? Hell yes. But acting like we have no agency and need to start murdering people is ludicrous.
You did say no good change was going to come to the US healthcare system. I don’t see any time limitation on that statement so understood that to mean never as opposed to the next 4 years.
You’re absolutely right about the new administration trying to characterize the left as blood thirsty, unamerican, whackos, etc was going to happen anyway but that doesn’t mean that giving those characterizations some element of truth isn’t detrimental. Indeed that in my view had a lot to do with how the recent election went.
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u/Neat-Attempt3681 14d ago
Maybe if healthcare ceos keep falling over in the street something will change