no, he's very wrong, but i understand why he's saying it, it's in his and his family (daughter who raises the price of epipens greedy) best interest to keep the status quo
Joe Manchin torches Democrats on the way out the door
As Joe Manchin prepares to leave Congress after nearly 15 years, the West Virginia senator — who left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent earlier this year — is further distancing himself from his former party, calling the Democratic brand “toxic.”www.yahoo.com
Is he right?
This may very well be right, as far as I know. Self interest seems to be the tune of the day. But as a political philosophy and given where our form of government as got us, at least up to WW2, I can see why people might see that system as being in everybody's self interest and something to defend. So I was really pondering the issue of pragmatic politics vs. woke politics regarding which should be a parties focus. A big problem I have with the term woke is that in my mind it is an appropriation of enlightened politics which is not synonymous with what either the left or the right refers to as woke. To awaken to the extent to which racism is a part of American culture is only a tiny fraction of what being woke should really mean. For me, to be woke is to be free of ego self interest and objective in what truth really is. I do believe that identity politics that emphasizes racial, gender, and sexual orientation does not address the issues that concern the average American and are a political loser like banning guns which Manchin, in my opinion, seems to have right.
We know that the country went to the right in the last election and surely that is because they thought that was in their best interest, or at least that would be what they think they were doing. Personally, I see the last election more as a death wish, a loss of hope, desperation, misery and the seeking of revenge. There is no doubt in my mind that Americans are sufficiently propagandized as to what they believe to be incapable of rational thinking, but in order to successfully propagandize people that way you have to have triggers to set the paranoia tunes to.
That's because you are a fascist who knows what's good for people and how that gives you the right to say what privileges they have to earn. Manchin is for responsible gun control like any rational person would be but not about to cede their rights to control freaks projecting their self hate on gun owners everywhere. We're gonna gun you down you know. When you wet your pants call 911 and pray they show up in time to save you. Meanwhile I'll continue to post here in full body armor My bandoliers and semi autos strapped to my chest. My green laser sight finally arrived from the black hole known as FedEx. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Thanks for pushing an agenda guaranteed to keep conservative in power. Perhaps under Trump I will be able to buy more of them at the supermarket.owning a gun should be a privilege that you have to earn and not a right, but that cat's out of the bag and trying to limit guns was lost long ago
but i guess i'm one of those filthy leftists he's talking about, oh well
you sound like a toddler who's being threatened with having his toys taken away
Weird, when I was still calling out manchin here recently I got told he wasn't so bad, and it was better than ending up with a Republican.
And you agree that is entirely obviously correct, right?
I'll say what I said last time, I'd prefer an actual Republican be sitting in the seat than a Democrat who votes like one. It makes Democrats look weak.
So to be clear you are willing to sacrifice all judicial confirmations, all the major domestic legislation passed in the last four years - nearly all of it - for a PR exercise so Democrats don’t look weak.
You turned the light off a long time ago. The world sucks, the facts about it suck. But the truth is that the light that exists can exist only in one place, and that is within you. Life has meaning only for those who can turn it back of after it has been extinguished. If your inner darkness were real enough you will see a candle burning faintly with enough light to illuminate the love asleep in your heart.
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