The Good Being Adopted By The Bad

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I keep seeing bits and pieces of phrases and ideas that have very good merit being associated with bad people and groups. It's becoming concerning that good is being lost within evil and is at risk of being discredited. Example:

Colorado Mayor Jeff Toborg Apologizes for Sharing QAnon Post

Toborg also responded to questions about his links to a militia group and a website that threatened to dox public health workers.

www.newsweek.com

The notion of 'doxing' public health workers. First, that's a silly term and I really don't know the source of it. But public health workers are almost all licensed in one way or another and their information is public record. Knowing who they are is not wrong.

Then there is the phrase mentioned in the article:

along with the caption "WWG1WGA." This is an abbreviation of the QAnon slogan "where we go one we go all,"

That should be a good phrase, a sign of unity and common purpose, something we should all strive towards, rather than something to be feared. It should not be a sign of violent rebellion.

One of the pictures in the article shows a leaflet/flyer/poster with the phrase 'We The People have had enough'. That's a very good and truthful slogan for those of us who have had enough of government corruption and over reach. We have had enough and we need change. Real change. Not lip service.

How can we, the good reclaim these slogans and phrases from the insurrectionist movement?

 

[pmv]

I keep seeing bits and pieces of phrases and ideas that have very good merit being associated with bad people and groups. It's becoming concerning that good is being lost within evil and is at risk of being discredited. Example:

Colorado Mayor Jeff Toborg Apologizes for Sharing QAnon Post

Toborg also responded to questions about his links to a militia group and a website that threatened to dox public health workers.

www.newsweek.com

The notion of 'doxing' public health workers. First, that's a silly term and I really don't know the source of it. But public health workers are almost all licensed in one way or another and their information is public record. Knowing who they are is not wrong.

Then there is the phrase mentioned in the article:

along with the caption "WWG1WGA." This is an abbreviation of the QAnon slogan "where we go one we go all,"

That should be a good phrase, a sign of unity and common purpose, something we should all strive towards, rather than something to be feared. It should not be a sign of violent rebellion.

One of the pictures in the article shows a leaflet/flyer/poster with the phrase 'We The People have had enough'. That's a very good and truthful slogan for those of us who have had enough of government corruption and over reach. We have had enough and we need change. Real change. Not lip service.

How can we, the good reclaim these slogans and phrases from the insurrectionist movement?

Populism has always been a double-edged sword (actually, I think all swords are double-edged, no?).

The significant word there, to me, is "people". The notion that there is one single "people" seems questionable. It's only a short step from "Ein Volk" to "Ein Furhrer". Really there are always many different people, with different interests.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

We, The People have had enough of the likes of Cawthorne, Boebert, Greene, Cruz, Hawley and those who think as they do.

But We, The People have also had enough of the likes of McConnell, Graham and other career politicians who put party over country and enable them.

We, The People have had enough of corporatocracies buying laws and special interest groups coercing politicians and judges.

 

[nakedfrog]

Populism has always been a double-edged sword (actually, I think all swords are double-edged, no?).

The significant word there, to me, is "people". The notion that there is one single "people" seems questionable. It's only a short step from "Ein Volk" to "Ein Furhrer". Really there are always many different people, with different interests.

No, for example, the katana is a single-edged blade. There are many others.

 

[Meghan54]

along with the caption "WWG1WGA." This is an abbreviation of the QAnon slogan "where we go one we go all,"

That should be a good phrase, a sign of unity and common purpose, something we should all strive towards, rather than something to be feared. It should not be a sign of violent rebellion.

I've always been of the mind that that Q catch phrase is rather stupid...."Where one goes, we all go" (to paraphrase)......sounds like a motto for a bunch of lemmings.

 

[Grey_Beard]

We, The People have had enough of the likes of Cawthorne, Boebert, Greene, Cruz, Hawley and those who think as they do.

But We, The People have also had enough of the likes of McConnell, Graham and other career politicians who put party over country and enable them.

We, The People have had enough of corporatocracies buying laws and special interest groups coercing politicians and judges.

Unfortunately, the people that these people represent will support them, so they are here to stay. That is the problem, since these people would not have been elected if it was not for ,any who agree or heard them speak and say, “Yeah, this perspective will do well for me and my interests.” The are the result of weak minds, over four decades of agitprop and an education system devoid of the ability to teach because of the medaling parents, that, oh by the way, vote consistently for the fools you mentioned. Fool circle.