I get the point of this article and support it on some intellectual level but I cannot help but be saddened. I do not support the asshole behavior of Bowman or the fringe that actually supports Hamas but I also do not trust the center to embrace, let alone make, the changes required to adapt to our present problems. I can't help but thin…
I get the point of this article and support it on some intellectual level but I cannot help but be saddened. I do not support the asshole behavior of Bowman or the fringe that actually supports Hamas but I also do not trust the center to embrace, let alone make, the changes required to adapt to our present problems. I can't help but think that if both of the agitating flanks were killed off tomorrow then the center will just memory hole the last 8+ years and forgive and forget everything. They won't have the desire or ability to codify Roe for instance. As a result the right will have successfully moved the whole country right via violent, destructive tantrums without any real backlash and everyone will just shrug and move on. I just don't trust the center to care about either the methods or the results once the immediate personal threat has passed. Its unfortunate the progressives and the ideas and energy that they have that could be useful and important are often left with marginal candidates and allies to champion and support them due to a lack of popularity, much of it generated by lies of omission, outright lies and perverse incentives.
I get the point of this article and support it on some intellectual level but I cannot help but be saddened. I do not support the asshole behavior of Bowman or the fringe that actually supports Hamas but I also do not trust the center to embrace, let alone make, the changes required to adapt to our present problems. I can't help but think that if both of the agitating flanks were killed off tomorrow then the center will just memory hole the last 8+ years and forgive and forget everything. They won't have the desire or ability to codify Roe for instance. As a result the right will have successfully moved the whole country right via violent, destructive tantrums without any real backlash and everyone will just shrug and move on. I just don't trust the center to care about either the methods or the results once the immediate personal threat has passed. Its unfortunate the progressives and the ideas and energy that they have that could be useful and important are often left with marginal candidates and allies to champion and support them due to a lack of popularity, much of it generated by lies of omission, outright lies and perverse incentives.