Re: I might argue that our Reps are NOT AFRAID of us.***

It's become too commonplace in America. And both the left and the right have used this tactic.

You can list the victims/targets, and it's becoming a long list: Gabby Giffords, Steve Scalise, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Gretchen Whitmer, Josh Shapiro, the mayor of Louisville, the two Minnesota representatives yesterday, Mike Pence....

There was the arson at the New Mexico Republican headquarters, the planting of pipebombs at the DNC & RNC buildings in Washington.

One of the reasons that our congress is broken is that our representatives/senators are afraid of us. That shouldn't be the case.

As a society, the US overall has had lower murder rates than decades ago. We've become more safe, with still a ways to go. But on political violence, we're going in the wrong direction.

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Jun 15, 2025, 1:32 PM

I actually agree.

They've siloed us into Red and Blue teams and pitted us against each other like freaking Emperor Palpatine sitting there and cackling "good...GOOD!" as Luke and Darth Vader went at it. Point them at each other, because if they get together, they're going to realize you're the biggest bastage in the room and that isn't going to be a good day for you.

Populism happened because our reps and Senators allowed themselves to get bought and paid for by moneyed interests...and of course, they served those interests instead of the people they were elected to represent. It's what you have to do, they said, if you want to survive in Washington. They even had a name for it: realpolitik.

Just one small problem there - our reps and Senators weren't there to @%^$ing "survive in office." The first three words of the Constitution are "We The People" and when you've already gone wrong in those first three words, nothing after them is going to work either.

We were never supposed to have a professional political class in America. We the people - you go to Washington, do your bit for the people who elected you...and come home. I go to Washington, do my bit for the people who elected me...and come home. Then Bob down the street goes to Washington to rep the people who elected him...and comes home. Exactly the way juries work, in fact. It's not a prize, it's a duty you perform because people trusted you with it and the system doesn't work without We The People participating in it.

The second it became about "surviving in Washington", the system broke. It's been limping along on life support ever since...and now it's populism time. It's these Bad People over here - point at some random group - gays, trannies, Guatamalan bean pickers, anybody else who can't defend themselves, and make it all about them. The world will be golden...if we can just get trannies out of women's sports, because after all, that's what's wrong with our once great nation today...not crappy leadership on both sides of the aisle. And on the other side, you've got shrill leftists so self-loathing and so self-righteous and misguided they're literally championing Muslim extremists who massacred thousands of people and who refused to stop fighting a war they lost 75 years ago...as the innocent victims, not willing participants in an endless cycle of violence that leaves no hands clean.

The politicians made this mess by not serving We The People, turning us against each other like pit bulls in a cage...and the people are acting out. I don't condone it but it's why we're here. And if we want to not be here, we need to start electing reps, Senators, and presidents who actually serve the people who elected them - real leaders, not careerists looking to eat like hogs at the public trough.

If we don't, it's going to be the end of us, and it really is that simple.

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I might argue that our Reps are NOT AFRAID of us.***