I just saw this article Missouri's Senator Josh Hawley had published by the extreme Right Wing source, The Federalist.
I can't be more emphatic when I say this is not just wrong and he is not just incorrect, mistaken or misguided but that this is dangerous. This is dangerous talk and it is a dangerous conclusion to even make, let alone to throw out there for the rabid Right Wing to gobble up.
A bit from the article:
We’ve got a lot of problems in America today. A pandemic. A recession. A surge of violence in our major cities drowning out a nationwide call for justice and hope.
We have work to do in this body and in this city to solve these problems and to heed that call. And our voters sent us here to make things better. To rebuild. To heal.
But that’s not what we’re doing.
No, for the last several weeks, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and their allies in the media, and some professional political activists on a payroll, have been trying to divide us against each other, to paralyze us, to stoke resentment of our fellow citizens and hatred of this nation that we all call home.
It’s really remarkable, if you think about, that just a few short weeks ago we were united in outrage at the murder of George Floyd. We were united in impatience for justice for his family.
And nothing has changed about that. All people of good will still want justice to be done. I do. But the call of the marchers has been weaponized by partisans, who want nothing more than to say that only some Americans really support equal justice under the law. Only some institutions of government are really committed to that cause. Only one party can be trusted to govern in good faith. Only one political coalition is righteous enough to rule over the other.
ou don’t hear talk of unity watching MSNBC or reading the New York Times these days. Instead those outlets are drawing up a list of new villains.
Not Floyd’s killer. No, not him. We’re way past George Floyd now, I guess. Now we’re talking about new grievances — “structural” evils endemic to America itself. The police. The military. The flag. Oh, and of course, the president.
It’s always about the president...
Well, yes. It is always about the President. Because he is President and because he's also been very divisive and has said blatantly ugly, divisive and yes, racist things. They are documentable. He has also "misrepresented the truth", if you get my meaning, as he did with the coronavirus pandemic, as just one of many examples.
This is what we get for having killed the Fairness Doctrine in our media back in Reagan's era. We get and got Fox and Breitbart and Rush Limbaugh all the other Right Wing media sources.
Senators and any and every other government representative are all supposed to be representatives of ALL the people, not just some, not just their own political party.
This isn't just divisive, however. This is, again, dangerous. He's saying that "other group" of Americans wants to attack "us."
Right. The Left is going to attack a bunch of gun-toting fellow citizens. Sure. Makes perfect sense.
The article goes on to, more and more, feed and stoke Right Wing flames or resentment, at least, if not out and out hate, for fellow Americans---you know, "libtards." Fortunately, he doesn't go that far but nearly.
Ironically, in the article, Sen. Hawley quotes Abraham Lincoln and mentions something about coming together as a nation, as a people.
His article does the exact opposite.
He and his article declare an "us vs them" mentality and all but declares Democrats, the Left, Progressives the enemy. Fellow citizens, fellow Americans.
Toward the end of his article he states:
This great nation and its good people cannot continue our life of freedom together if we vilify and destroy each other from within.
His entire article is about nothing but villifying people he and the Right Wing don't agree with.
This Missouri Senator just got dangerous, folks.
The "Left", Democrats, the Left Wing, Progressives no way "want any Civil War. To declare they--we--do, is a dangerous untruth and ugly fuel for the Right Wing, Conservatives and the Republican Party.
We would, however, like more justice and equality. For all Americans.
Surely they're heard of those.
![Mikhail Bakunin: "Welcome everyone to the anarchist meeting, we are trying to decide what action to take to best move anarchism forward. I say we begin by distributing literature to the peasants about democracy."
Peter Kropotkin: "That's nice Bakunin, but i think it will be better to try and create a network of mutual aid, and organizing the distribution of bread to all."
Emma Goldman: "What if we teach women about birth control so they can take control of their sexuality?
Kropotkin: "No one cares about sex,Goldman, we need a revolution!"
Goldman: "Perhaps at your age, Kropotkin, but i can assure you that people care about sex."
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: "What if we come up with some really devastating insults to world leaders? That would teach them."
Goldman: "Proudhon, be serious."
Proudhon: "I mean like...real zingers. It might work!"
Goldman: "You are an idiot."
Proudhon: "Exactly, like that! Did anyone write that down?"
[ 25 days later ]
Bakunin: "Okay, we are decided, we'll just do them all since none of us could agree. let's get to work!"
Description: The police arrive immediately and start to beat them all up with clubs.
Police officer: "That will teach you violent anarchists not to disrupt peaceful, civil society! You are all arrested."](https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/AnarchistOrganizing.png "Everyone in the comic was arrested in real life for what they are arguing to do. Cops have always been the same.")
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