U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez castigated House Republicans for pursuing massive cuts to Medicaid "in the dead of night" as a committee markup hearing on the GOP's legislation dragged on into the early hours of the morning.
Oh man, that explains the rage I’m getting for just being a Skeptic and daring criticize AOCs “inconsistency”.
Sorry for you guys!
It’s always easy to be pretty strict about Principles and Skeptic about the motivations of those in politics, when one sits outside with no real stake in a race and hence no real emotional investment in it.
(Mind you, I’ve been just the same towards the leading figures of the political parties I was a member of in the countries I lived in, so maybe it’s something else - as I see it, the more important the person the more important it is that they behave beyond reproach)
That said, America didn’t seem to always been fucked - surely there was a post war period up until the late 70s were for most things were pretty good (certainly as a kid I used to look up to that America), though with the caveat that it was only true if one wasn’t an Afro-American.
Even if we agree that the US was always somewhat fucked, surely the current level of being fucked is pretty record setting?!
That said, America didn’t seem to always been fucked - surely there was a post war period up until the late 70s were for most things were pretty good (certainly as a kid I used to look up to that America), though with the caveat that it was only true if one wasn’t an Afro-American.
About that…after WWII, the US fought two major proxy wars with the USSR, including the Vietnam War, which had the “bonus” of being partly motivated by France being unable to secure colonial rule, as well as other “bonuses” like heavily documented crimes against humanity and, domestically, events like the May 4th, 1970 Kent State Massacre, where national guardsmen were dispatched to disperse a 2000 student peaceful protest, leading to the murder of 4 unarmed students and injury of 9 more, when they began firing indiscriminately into the crowd. Extra “double-bonus” of charges against the 8 indicted being dismissed by a judge and none of the victims or their families receiving anything in the way of meaningful compensation (civil damages were ultimately reduced to legal costs, despite the finding that the killings were unjustified and illegal).
And that’s just the tinniest slice of this removed’s history that has been largely papered over with propaganda boosting the myth of the US being the “shining city on a hill” and champion of democracy. Don’t even get me started on the US treatment of South and Central America throughout its history.
Oh man, that explains the rage I’m getting for just being a Skeptic and daring criticize AOCs “inconsistency”.
Sorry for you guys!
It’s always easy to be pretty strict about Principles and Skeptic about the motivations of those in politics, when one sits outside with no real stake in a race and hence no real emotional investment in it.
(Mind you, I’ve been just the same towards the leading figures of the political parties I was a member of in the countries I lived in, so maybe it’s something else - as I see it, the more important the person the more important it is that they behave beyond reproach)
That said, America didn’t seem to always been fucked - surely there was a post war period up until the late 70s were for most things were pretty good (certainly as a kid I used to look up to that America), though with the caveat that it was only true if one wasn’t an Afro-American.
Even if we agree that the US was always somewhat fucked, surely the current level of being fucked is pretty record setting?!
Anyways, you take care and good luck.
About that…after WWII, the US fought two major proxy wars with the USSR, including the Vietnam War, which had the “bonus” of being partly motivated by France being unable to secure colonial rule, as well as other “bonuses” like heavily documented crimes against humanity and, domestically, events like the May 4th, 1970 Kent State Massacre, where national guardsmen were dispatched to disperse a 2000 student peaceful protest, leading to the murder of 4 unarmed students and injury of 9 more, when they began firing indiscriminately into the crowd. Extra “double-bonus” of charges against the 8 indicted being dismissed by a judge and none of the victims or their families receiving anything in the way of meaningful compensation (civil damages were ultimately reduced to legal costs, despite the finding that the killings were unjustified and illegal).
And that’s just the tinniest slice of this removed’s history that has been largely papered over with propaganda boosting the myth of the US being the “shining city on a hill” and champion of democracy. Don’t even get me started on the US treatment of South and Central America throughout its history.