The Right/MAGA media will tell whatever story they want to tell regardless of the level of hypocrisy, lies/misinformation, or quackery they need to use to do so. Does this behavior make it a little easier for them to do so? Yes. If there was none of it, do you think their narrative would be any different? Unlikely.
The Right/MAGA media will tell whatever story they want to tell regardless of the level of hypocrisy, lies/misinformation, or quackery they need to use to do so. Does this behavior make it a little easier for them to do so? Yes. If there was none of it, do you think their narrative would be any different? Unlikely.
It is strange that the left lives in fear of stuff like this (being seen the wrong way, sending the wrong message) while the Right apparently does not. It is strange that the Right usually gets a walk on these things, while the left does not.
The reality is that the non-MAGA MSM reaches more people than Faux (also MSM, but they (and their fans) like to pretend they aren't) and has a great deal of power to shape the narrative--and the narrative they shape seems to be largely NOT friendly to the actual responsible political party.
So much for meaningful liberal bias.
The reality is that people have a right to be VERY angry. Is it wrong at some level to do what they are doing? Yes. Is doing what they have been doing up to this point done much good? It does not appear that way. Is that going to stop people? No.
A lot of people are coming to the conclusion that if they are going to be tarred with that brush, they might as well live it--and this is only going to get worse.
If the GoP House and Senate majority cooks the books in 2024 to elect Trump again.. will it THEN be time for this? Of course, by that time it will be too late.
And they aren't going to stop with Roe v Wade--that is already clear (despite what some apologists and non-alarmists are saying). The governor of Mississippi has not ruled out banning contraception when Roe v Wade is overturned. If that doesn't get any meaningful kickback, then others will follow.
I REALLY hate the whole domino chain argument thing, as it is not logically valid--other than it does often seem to play out in real life, regardless of its lack of logical validity.
I listened to Les Miserables 10th anniversary last night. "Do You Hear the People Sing" made me weep! It is the song of Urkaine now. But it is also the song of America's women and minorities and every American the Republican Party seeks to oppress and enslave while setting back the very idea of equality among people or nations. We need millions of women and children and elderly and poor and yes men in the streets singing: Do you hear the people sing? It is the song of angry men. It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes. WE WILL NOT GO BACK is the call of women my age who fought this fight 50 years ago. Fact is, liberty and equality must be protected and to be protected they must be appreciated if not loved. Ukrainians know this. Europe knows this. Americans do not. Republicans like Russia only know force and violence and remaining in power whatever it takes. So at some point you stop the bully or you just give him your lunch money and hope he doesn't kill you which he does anyway.
That's what makes the slippery slope fallacy so tricky. Because there are times when you are in fact slipping down the slope and breaking out the book to point out that it's a logical fallacy doesn't change the reality on the ground.
To pick another metaphor, give the GOP an inch and they'll absolutely go for taking the mile because that's how they stay in power. They haven't built their modern political operation around the governance of a functioning country, they've built it around the notion that the country is being illegitimately governed and must be taken back, and therefore no quarter can be given to those who belong to the illegitimate institutions or their supporters.
The Right/MAGA media will tell whatever story they want to tell regardless of the level of hypocrisy, lies/misinformation, or quackery they need to use to do so. Does this behavior make it a little easier for them to do so? Yes. If there was none of it, do you think their narrative would be any different? Unlikely.
It is strange that the left lives in fear of stuff like this (being seen the wrong way, sending the wrong message) while the Right apparently does not. It is strange that the Right usually gets a walk on these things, while the left does not.
The reality is that the non-MAGA MSM reaches more people than Faux (also MSM, but they (and their fans) like to pretend they aren't) and has a great deal of power to shape the narrative--and the narrative they shape seems to be largely NOT friendly to the actual responsible political party.
So much for meaningful liberal bias.
The reality is that people have a right to be VERY angry. Is it wrong at some level to do what they are doing? Yes. Is doing what they have been doing up to this point done much good? It does not appear that way. Is that going to stop people? No.
A lot of people are coming to the conclusion that if they are going to be tarred with that brush, they might as well live it--and this is only going to get worse.
If the GoP House and Senate majority cooks the books in 2024 to elect Trump again.. will it THEN be time for this? Of course, by that time it will be too late.
And they aren't going to stop with Roe v Wade--that is already clear (despite what some apologists and non-alarmists are saying). The governor of Mississippi has not ruled out banning contraception when Roe v Wade is overturned. If that doesn't get any meaningful kickback, then others will follow.
I REALLY hate the whole domino chain argument thing, as it is not logically valid--other than it does often seem to play out in real life, regardless of its lack of logical validity.
I listened to Les Miserables 10th anniversary last night. "Do You Hear the People Sing" made me weep! It is the song of Urkaine now. But it is also the song of America's women and minorities and every American the Republican Party seeks to oppress and enslave while setting back the very idea of equality among people or nations. We need millions of women and children and elderly and poor and yes men in the streets singing: Do you hear the people sing? It is the song of angry men. It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes. WE WILL NOT GO BACK is the call of women my age who fought this fight 50 years ago. Fact is, liberty and equality must be protected and to be protected they must be appreciated if not loved. Ukrainians know this. Europe knows this. Americans do not. Republicans like Russia only know force and violence and remaining in power whatever it takes. So at some point you stop the bully or you just give him your lunch money and hope he doesn't kill you which he does anyway.
That's what makes the slippery slope fallacy so tricky. Because there are times when you are in fact slipping down the slope and breaking out the book to point out that it's a logical fallacy doesn't change the reality on the ground.
To pick another metaphor, give the GOP an inch and they'll absolutely go for taking the mile because that's how they stay in power. They haven't built their modern political operation around the governance of a functioning country, they've built it around the notion that the country is being illegitimately governed and must be taken back, and therefore no quarter can be given to those who belong to the illegitimate institutions or their supporters.