The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny āis littered with people telling you youāre overreactingā
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was testifying before Congress about his stateās handling of immigration when he learned Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference Thursday.
The irony, he told the attendees of the Center for American Progressā āListening to Leadā event Friday, was in lawmakers grilling him and his colleagues, Govs. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. and JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over the āincredible crime of treating people like human beingsā as FBI agents tackled a sitting senator to the ground and handcuffed him in Los Angeles.
āI am not prone to hyperbole. I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit. I know that,ā Walz said, prefacing his argument that Americans are living in a ādangerousā time. āI believed all along we were marching towards authoritarianism, and people were telling me in December, āYou know, youāre overreacting.ā And I said, āThe road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you youāre overreacting.ā
And who would that be?
You have a myopia that makes you incapable of looking past a single election. It is that myopia that has gotten us to this point here. Cycle after cycle of blind, zero-thought āblue no matter whoā has made the democratic power-brokers completely disconnected from the base. Youāre going to vote for them no matter what, so your opinions, thoughts, and desires are absolutely irrelevant. You do not matter to the political process at all.
Iām not American (but we do get a lot of US Pol foisted on us), so forgive me if Iām missing somethingā¦ I thought the US democratic party was basically everyone more left wing than Joe Manchin. There are āthird partiesā, but in general the broad church argument appliesā¦ Anyway arenāt USians able to actually pick the candidates that stand for those parties? So wouldnāt you use the generals to vote āagainstā Republicans, but then use the primaries process to vote for the shape of D you wanted? Here thatās not an option, the party puts up candidates. But you have the ability to pressure the candidates even after they are elected. Might be a long shot, but is inherently less fatalistic than just giving up, or even (as seems disturbingly popular these days) calling for some form of civil war.
Outside of all that garbage, who would you choose as a perfect American politician that would take a hard stance against Israel? Has to be a real person and has to be an American politician, no pipe dreams.
Edit: Cāmon folks, if all youāve got is downvotes then maybe your political idealism is stupid and you need to apply situational understanding and realistic solutions to your approach rather than waiting for your own personal Jesus to come save us all.
What a sad question when you remove the snark from it.
Like honestly, the reality behind that is just sad.