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Originally Posted by Patrick Murtha
Changing "what I said" is not new to this administration. Let's not act like its novel to the presidency or to humanity. Hearing people say or suggest that corruption has begun or is unique by this administration is not only quite frustrating, but it is just down-right nuts!
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There is something new involved here. It is the shift from hypocrisy to a revelling in ignorance and the destruction of controls and the vestiges of balance and oversight. This isn't the slowing of progress uphill through lies and deception that we have struggled against for decades. This is turning around and gleefully shoving society down the hill. Gravity makes the potential damages exponetially more severe. If you can't see the extreme differences in the present regimes approach to truth, law, and opposition you can't be taken seriously in a conversation. And many here have opposed all of the above violences (the meaningful ones) in the past. If you were not in the streets when the Iraq war started, you can shut up about all that, right? If you were then and aren't now then you have become irrelevant and apply the same remedy. If your point is that the nature of the State is innately problematic and any ignoring of the human rights abuses and violences of the past regimes is foolish then you have a fair point but your timing is suspicious and your words read more like cover for the present violences. Tell me your take on how to best fight the present rising misogyny, deportations, environmental destruction and captialist accumulation and maybe there is something to talk about. If your here selling the redemptive side of Trump, then save it. We are all full up of jackass abettors these days.