IMO, they have to be doing some of this on purpose, don't they?
This could be a clever subliminal stab at telling the rubes the GOP needs them to stay dumb.
IDK - I'm just spit-ballin' a little. Republicans are indeed the party of the Ignorant Slobs, and they're pretty good at filling their voters' heads with all manner of confetti and cotton wadding, so there's no reason for me to think they wouldn't go for an appeal to the subconscious.
Byron Donalds speaks about the importance of education in front of a misspelled sign. You can’t make this shit up. pic.twitter.com/AQ717wGyOw
He's nominated people for the federal bench who refuse to say that a president who has served two terms is not eligible for a third term, according to very plain and obvious language at the beginning of the first section of the 22nd amendment:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Why do we have to fuck with this?
Where are the honorable people in government who should be jumping all over this?
Hannah Arendt's message is not so much that we have to do everything possible to protect the Jews - although it should be obvious that it's very important to do that. It's just not more important than protecting all of us from that kind of nightmare reality.
Her point is that we have to remember how the shit gets started, how it's sustained, and the simple fact that it doesn't take a bunch of monsters doing monstrous things to bring about something as awful and soul-crushing as the Holocaust. The potential for genocide lives in all of us, all the time.
All it takes is for normal everyday people to stop questioning what's going on around them.
We go along to get along. We don't look hard enough at what our government is doing on our behalf - with our resources - to people who are really no different from us.