The three state killings came just two days after the Democrats’ sweeping victory in the November 3 midterm elections, which constituted a stunning repudiation of Trump’s policies on social inequality, war, the assault on immigrants and attacks on democratic rights. Yet a wide internet search turns up not a single comment from any Democrat on Thursday’s three executions.
I mean…
It’s a state issue, and those are all red states…
Dems have no influence on state elections unless it’s a Dem governor or they have the votes to federally outlaw state executions. Which we will in January.
But if the author thinks we can discuss everything that’s fucked up about America, they’re fucking stupid.
We’re in triage mode as a country, and in triage you focus on what helps the most people, because time is of the essence. Not everything can be the priority, and if you try to address everything at once, you never get anything done.
Start with what helps the most, and keep fixing shit for as long as you can.
Edit:
To clarify, think of what the number is of people who died yesterday due to lack of resources like healthcare/food/housing.
Priorities.
It’s really not possible to equate a death to a killing, or a killing to an execution. That is a very narrow idea.
And you can and should speak up on every issue, yes. It is a politicians job and duty.
They can’t solve every issue all at once. Personally, I’m against the death penalty. But I’m more concerned about innocent people dying of starvation or lack of healthcare than about people who have been convicted of murder being executed. Again, I don’t want people executed, but most of them weren’t innocent.
So you don’t think our health insurance system equates to murder? Or at least intentionally killing?
You don’t think the people letting the poor children starve are murderers?
I guess we just disagree homes.
You mean, you disagree with the strawman you just created?
Do you think someone being killed by our healthcare system to maximize profit a “death” or a “killing”.
You said they’re different, I’m asking where your personal line is.
No one else can answer that question about your personal line.
I just wish that for onnce we could be in a spot to improve things rather than workimg to unbreak the shit the latest R admin stuck us with…
We’ll be waiting till the heat death of the universe for that to happen.