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i know where your political stances lie and that you support many of the same things that i do. i remember you from the hannity forum. I dont like the individual mandate either though i see it as the only way the coverage for pre existing conditions was going to work. I doubt her ability to put her personal beliefs aside, and i think the GOP is banking on it. Why else would they lie and rush this through? The GOP fully believes the ends justify the means and will imprison the both of us the first chance they get, in that situation such stance on the ends not Justifying the means becomes a well missed luxury. The early stages of a fascist USA is here.
From where does totalitarianism spring, though? If the ends justify the means for left... and the right responds in kind, then where is everyone in between? What kind of a country are we then left with when nobody stands on principle anymore? Then isn't it just as well to pick your "king" and democracy be damned? The way I figure it, that's been the whole raison d'etre of the Trump Administration all along. Tear down the media. Tear down the government. Tear down the opposition. If they are all as unprincipled as me, then why not just support me regardless?
Take the Barrett nomination itself... the fact that the Republicans are hypocritically pushing it through despite their rhetoric on the Garland nomination and letting the will of the people decide is ample evidence of their willingness to let the ends justify the means. Regardless of where you stand on the merits of Judge Barrett herself, it should be ample evidence to all people, regardless of which side of the aisle they stand. I have faith that we are still a country of principles and that this blatant lack of principle on their part will be punished at the polls. Maybe I'm naive in that, I don't know... but I've got to believe we're still a better type of people than that - that at our core, we're still the kind of people who can see for ourselves when we're handed a bill of goods.
And if we're not, well, then we're on the road to Rome... and I'll make my stand with Cato.