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Originally Posted by alexamenos
Too easy....yes, had Kerry been elected we'd have done the exact same thing.
edit: One thing the average Iraq-war supporting Republican might not know, and the average Democrat might prefer to forget-->>
during the 2004 campaign, antiwar protests were cordoned off into Orwellian "free speech" zones, not at Republican events, but at Democratic party events.
Democrats, bombing the shit out of people since WWI.
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I agree with you on your view of Kerry. And as far as the suppression of free speech goes at Party events, there is a long, and sometimes violent history of such. The real history of this country is pretty dark and bleak. Once you take a few steps outside of the official narrative that we are all forced to memorize as children, things get a bit disturbing. As much as words like freedom and democracy get tossed around, they tend to lose their meaning when the reality on the ground says otherwise. I think that scares the hell out of people, but it is necessary, at some point, to move past the fables and myths and into some semblance of reality.
Many Americans are finding the way things are headed to be antithetical to the principles they believe in, and are beginning to expand their understanding of how their actions, or lack thereof, bring about the situation we currently find ourselves in. Others (a shrinking number every day) still hold on to the fairy tales we were conditioned to believe in our youth.
From my understanding of history, there is no political solution to this mess. Our political system is merely a platform for entertainment. Nothing will change with new elections, save the mascots of the home team. And many people that could bring about substantial change in their communities will instead engage in useless banter about strategy in a world they have yet to directly and meaningfully engage in.