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I would like to see him expand that reasoning to various other issues, of course. But on this particular one he pretty much nailed it.
Pretty sure he feels that way about cannabis, as well.
The point is, I heard Dole read the text of the 10th Amendment out loud in a debate. Trumps "this is what everyone wants" populist argument is not the same as Dole's "this is what it says and therefore what we're suggesting here is actually illegal" argument. Ron Paul is the only other politician I've heard make similar statements ('don't ask lawyers - open up the constitution and read it').
Those who are criticizing Trump for not having a vision are actually right on target. Harris' vision may be repellant, we may not want to recognize it, we may be terrified of her getting into a position to enact it, but it's there.
He's so damned close. All he needs to do is offer one extra sentence ('and by the way the 10th amendment says so and this is actually how we're supposed to handle abortion and every other crime') but he can't, because that's contrary to his actual vision: winning. That's what he's built for. Winning at all costs. It's not a coincidence he has all the 'oh yeah smart guy well you can't enact ANY changes if you don't win' crowd firmly sewed into his pocket. Those people have never recognized the problem with prioritizing winning and foregoing having any first principles.
Without first principles and a vision Trump is just flailing and managing to occasionally connect with what people want. And in an alternate universe where he's physically allowed to win, he'd do the same thing - keep flailing. And he'd flail right into hiring another swamp creature who would convince him not to release the JFK files or that 8 trillion in deficit spending isn't a problem or that experimental nonfunctional medicine that actually kills us is a more appropriate response to a cold with an overwhelming survival rate that actually investigating who engineered the whole thing.
This is all exactly as I already wrote. He's the option of kicking the can. Rolling the dice. His dice only have 1's on three sides and Kamala's dice are 1's on all six sides. So everyone wants to let it ride and hope we don't roll snake eyes as opposed to knowing we will.
Brother, I hear you loud and clear.
With my age and ailments, I wouldn't last through the first skirmish.
But like you, maybe I can reload magazines, hold the line as part of the 118th Immobile Militia, or, suffering from what Ben Franklin suffered from, among other things, maybe I could serve as a diplomat, while canoodling with French broads.
But neither one of us is going to make the first move to light this candle.
And nobody else seems to have the stomach for it.
So, here we sit, bitching and rage tweeting at each other, as our own genocide works up momentum around us.
ETA - Please do not take this as an attack on you, personally.
If anything it's self criticism of the insignificant and cowardly man I devolved into.
Brother, I got a girl about to turn 16 who doesn't talk and shits her pants and a 7 year old sharing a room with her in a 1300sf house. I would bet that house you have some dire circumstances you gotta deal with also - and if you don't now, I bet the specter of a serious medical problem haunts you constantly. It has nothing to do with cowardice and everything to do with the fact that we still have a lot to lose. Being middle class has always been that - a dance on the razor edge between having nothing to lose, and being able to lose. What motivates the middle class the most is when people screw with that calculation. It's why 50% of us just want free shit and the other 50% just want our money back from paying for the free shit.
I don't have the courage to go fight either. What I do have, is the courage to lose what I do have. If I do, others will as well. And when enough of us do, that's when it'll start.
In the appropriate environment, it'll only take us a couple years to get back to where we are now.
