Our Lonely War On Pronouns Has A New General
As you probably know, we here at the DGBG Productions (driftglass blog, The Professional Left Podcast, etc.) have been waging a long, lonely war against the promiscuous use "we", "us", "The American people", "The Congress", "Washington D.C." and any other language deployed by the media and by Republican politicians in the service of pretending that somehow everyone and all institutions are collectively and equally culpable for explicitly Republican cowardice, Republican barbarity, Republican racism and Republican sedition.
Or that, conversely, the energetic and resolution opposition to explicitly Republican cowardice, Republican barbarity, Republican racism and Republican sedition is something that "we" are all in together. That, for example. stripping tens of millions of Americans of their health care in order to pay for tax cuts for plutocrats with something up with which "the American people" would not put.
No, no and no.
Because other than geographically, there is no such critter as "the American people".
And also too, "...but the Democrats didn't stop 'em..." is a close relative of Both-Siderism.
The sheriff who gets killed by the mob when he tries to defend his prisoner is not to blame for the lynching that follows.
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