Zab, if I recall I had thought taht the former Administration was in a battle against drugs being brought into America but I had not read they made no progress to that regards. It is bad either way for folks here to die from an avoidable calamity here. Both parties again are to blame for this fiasco of the current allowance of these drugs into our society and to the children of our Nation. I am sure glad I can sit back and view both of these debating sides here for Dem/Rep on such things. Not sure what is coming next but I fear those 74 million plus voters for the former President are in for a rude awakening after tonight' speech by sleepy Joe. Some of them may not take it too well. Glad I am not one of them here. Oh well hate to be the one with these jack booted thugs with their boots on my neck in the future, but I am afraid that is where this all is heading. If Biden were smart, and he is not by all accounts, he will diffuse this situation and claim he needs all American's to come together start with the drug deaths and then move into economy and how he plans to get us all out of this mess, that is if he wants to do so. Then move into garnering support from the rest of what they call the "Other Americans "deplorables as Hillary had called them prior. I really think he needs to be gentler and not mean spirited and use a little humility something I don't think he has in him. But we shall see.
President Joe Biden will take to the stage Thursday night in Philadelphia to address the American people about alleged threats to our democracy. Will this be the speech of the uniter-in-chief who said in his inaugural address that we must, "see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors"? Or will it be the speech of the new, angry Biden calling out "Ultra MAGA" for its supposed extremism?
There has always been an unwritten rule in American politics that you can attack your opponent with everything you got, but you don’t attack their voters. However, just this past week Charlie Crist, the Democrat gubernatorial candidate in Florida said he doesn’t want votes from conservatives, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told Republican New Yorkers to move to Florida, which, a lot frankly have already, and Joe Biden called the MAGA philosophy of Trump supporters, "semi-fascist." This is all extremely dangerous and it needs to stop.
Let's be clear, Biden did not call Trump a semi-fascist, he said it about the "MAGA philosophy" embraced by Trump’s voters. Fascism is a particularly dehumanizing accusation. Its root word, fasces, means a bundle of sticks, stronger together than separate, and in which each individual stick is indistinguishable from the whole. A blow against an individual fascist is a blow against fascism itself.
That is to say, once you identify someone as a fascist, they are as good a target for harassment or violence as any other person who shares their beliefs. Not only is harassing Justice Brett Kavanaugh, or swatting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene acceptable, so are attacks on your neighbor with the Trump flag on his truck.
Let's all hope Joe can muster a figment of his old self and deliver a smart calming speech tonight.
Take care all.
