John Morse, Angela Giron, victims of right-wing extremism, NRA activities, Koch Brothers sinister influence. It is no mystery why the Bloomberg sums were insufficient against the tide of gun nut™ activism, but it is still not clear the degree of corruption exerted to turn the results of elections so clearly against the will of the people. It is a sad sign that our delicate democracy is failing.
Psych.
I heard one thing weeks ago and stopped listening because that one thing told me everything I needed to form an opinion and it makes me insane, I heard John Mose say in apparent earnestness and not with apparent sophistry, referring to the cinema murders in Colorado and obliquely to Columbine, defending his vote he said forcefully, "Not doing anything is not an option."
"Thud."
That was supposed to go "ding," and I thought in that moment, "I hope you lose."
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I won't celebrate yet.
I've been through too many elections that were supposed to fix things.
Usually, the fix is in.
Yes, they got the laws they wanted. Damage done. Unlikely to be reversed. Progress. Broken eggs. Liberalism, check that, illiberalism wins the long game after all.
I asked my one avid gun enthusiast what he thought, a reflective fellow, but reliably liberal in all things, and he said, "Well those things are just ..."
That was the part I latched onto to question, how can he be so dismissive "those things" and "just" vocabulary that dismisses the whole class under discussion. That's where I started my line of inquiry, but all I could get out of him was his own family history, how own limited use of guns for birds.
That availed me another whole line of questioning, one that shows his point of view narrow and dismissive of other people, their situations, their lives they lead, their concerns, their interests that differ from his.
And I got nowhere.
I never do.
In that moment I don't. I lose every argument to axiom, adage, and received wisdom, I don't budge anybody, not one single person not one single time.
Americans! You're such polemical bastards. You won't budge an inch, and next month I'll be hearing my own phrasing as if brand new, as if I hadn't thought them up myself and contrived that vocabulary to express them, as if I won't recognize my own effort, as if we hadn't had this discussion earlier and if I cannot recall having lost it.
Somewhat off topic, but not really.
Matthew Sheppard hate crime story is a fake.
I've been expecting this.
Yes, ST. I read an interview with the murderer a few years ago where he said they high and interested in drugs, the whole thing was about drugs.
But none of that matters anymore because now due to the magic of legislation we can read each other minds and probe each other's emotions and true motivations.
To this day, when I ask gay rights "activists" to give me a single instance of the great persecution of the gays, the only instance they can give me is Matthew Shepard.
The good news is these twerps can't do any more damage.
CO may not be as far gone as the Lefties hope.
Shouting Thomas said...
Somewhat off topic, but not really.
Matthew Sheppard hate crime story is a fake.
It always was. We knew it then.
PS and OT: Choom couldn't have even gotten a majority vote in the Senate on Syria.
No wonder he jumped at Vlad's offer.
Now watch Vlad play Lucy to Choom's Charlie Brown as he uses the UN as the football.
Spitzer and Weiner are out.
Will the dem-perverts rise again?
After all, Lawrence O'Donnell doesn't have a problem with Weiner's on-line self portraits. (everybody does it. don't judge)
I can't remember a single Colorado politician, but I am glad someone can recall them.
People *in* Colorado seem to have been angry that neither would listen to testimony from them during the lead-up to the laws being passed. We saw some of the really dumb results, but didn't get quite as much of a feel for the disdain shown to gun-rights advocates and rape victims during the time they should have at least *pretended* to listen to the other side.
Also... Scott Walker, neener-neener.
;)
This election is interesting because they didn't allow mail in ballots. I find it interesting because the big reason CO is supposed to be so blue is because of an increasing Latino population. However, I came from a state that has a very large Latino population and it is still quite red. It was puzzling to me. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I couldn't figure out how Michael Bennett won his Senate seat a few years back. I think the pieces are starting to come together for me though. And I think the biggest piece of the puzzle is those mail in ballots (my previous red state has absentee ballots, but not dedicated mail in ballots like CO).
@ST,
If you read the very earliest reportage on the Sheppard murder, it was clear that Sheppard was no saint. His friends told reporters, in terms as nice as they could be because the poor guy was dead, that the guy was messed up.
It was only when the story became "The Matthew Sheppard Story" (about 2 weeks into it, if memory serves me right) that the white-washing began.
YoungHegelian said...
@ST,
If you read the very earliest reportage on the Sheppard murder, it was clear that Sheppard was no saint. His friends told reporters, in terms as nice as they could be because the poor guy was dead, that the guy was messed up.
It was only when the story became "The Matthew Sheppard Story" (about 2 weeks into it, if memory serves me right) that the white-washing began.
Mathew Shepherd sainthood is just like Trayvon Martin sainthood.
The recall is a much better solution than secession.
Speak for yourself, Y*nkee!
DWS says there was voter suppression.
Those guys in black face and New Black Panther clothes the NRA hired to stand outside the voting places, brandishing big sticks, no doubt.
Congrats Coloradans. (What do you call yourselves? Coloradians?)
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