Jed Dilligan
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Mon Apr-17-06 07:01 PM
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Looks like we might have the world to fight over |
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amongst ourselves, if the GOP keeps tanking the way it has been at least until November. Let's not forget to win before tearing each other up too much.
I like to think about what the sides will be when we start fighting each other, instead of them, for control. What I see here are people who are way into the law versus people who are way fed up with the law. Both sides have good points. Both sides have a valid comprehensive worldview. In fact, it seems to me that we could build a pretty good society on compromises and decentralization if these were the two factions.
And yet, we'll probably have to pull together yet again to meet the Bushbot bitter-enders with tanks and aircraft... Oh well. It's nice to dream.
WDYT?
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Mon Apr-17-06 07:17 PM
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1. I think more people would be lawful if it was fair and just. |
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However, it's not. Our legal system, like our government, is less and less for "the People" and more and more for special (often corporate) interests. The laws are irregularly enforced, with a statistically racist and classist bias. The sentences of those convicted, when not dictated by mandatory minimums created by legislators overstepping their Constitutionally-defined bounds, are also statistically racist and classist, especially with regards to the death penalty. It's been this way for decades now. Those who haven't noticed this aren't poor or a minority.
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