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Terrorism is more than just people strapping bombs to their chest. Terrorism is about trying to bring about change despite knowing that you do not have the power to do so. Terrorism is about threatening to hurt innocent people who have done nothing wrong in the hope that other people who care about those innocents will agree to terms they otherwise wouldn't in an effort to save those innocence. Essentially a terrorist threatens to blow up(literally or figuratively) the whole works if they don't get the thing that they want. (money, political change)...
Democrats control the house, and Republicans control the Senate. Both bodies must mutually agree to any changes in spending for the next fiscal year. There is nothing that Republicans would be willing to give Democrats that would make it worthwhile for them to agree to support funding for a border wall. Even when the House was controlled by Republicans there was no bill that they could pass with Wall funding, and just a few weeks ago Republicans in the Senate agreed to support a bill to continue funding the government with no significant changes to spending over last year.
Republicans don't have the power to get the thing they want through regular political negotiations. As a result, they have decided to blow up the government. To hurt innocent government workers who have done nothing wrong. These are people who protect our airports and keep our national parks running. The Republican party is hoping that liberals and their bleeding hearts will feel bad for these workers, and agree to Republican terms in order to save them from the harm being caused by Republicans.
This is the definition of Terrorism. They may not be threatening to kill innocent people, but they are intentionally hurting innocent people in order to achieve political change that they otherwise would not be able to achieve through a natural legislative process or agreement.
Call Republicans what they are. They're Terrorists. As their type of right-wing Christian extremism begins to lose more and more power you can expect their tactics to become more extreme along with them.
Democrats control the house, and Republicans control the Senate. Both bodies must mutually agree to any changes in spending for the next fiscal year. There is nothing that Republicans would be willing to give Democrats that would make it worthwhile for them to agree to support funding for a border wall. Even when the House was controlled by Republicans there was no bill that they could pass with Wall funding, and just a few weeks ago Republicans in the Senate agreed to support a bill to continue funding the government with no significant changes to spending over last year.
Republicans don't have the power to get the thing they want through regular political negotiations. As a result, they have decided to blow up the government. To hurt innocent government workers who have done nothing wrong. These are people who protect our airports and keep our national parks running. The Republican party is hoping that liberals and their bleeding hearts will feel bad for these workers, and agree to Republican terms in order to save them from the harm being caused by Republicans.
This is the definition of Terrorism. They may not be threatening to kill innocent people, but they are intentionally hurting innocent people in order to achieve political change that they otherwise would not be able to achieve through a natural legislative process or agreement.
Call Republicans what they are. They're Terrorists. As their type of right-wing Christian extremism begins to lose more and more power you can expect their tactics to become more extreme along with them.