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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, May 24, 2021

Trolling Or Threatening

 When you read these stories, your first thought is how far gone a certain segment of our polity is. While Trump was more symptom than cause of the Rightist Rot in America, he certainly has normalized a sort of violent rhetoric that was largely absent from mainstream politicians.

But I also think that most of these people are cowards and blowhards and do not represent a real threat to the people they are harassing. However, it only takes one person to act on this, and I'm afraid it's just a matter of time before someone gets killed.  Or rather get killed again.


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