(04-13-2022, 05:10 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(04-13-2022, 12:07 PM)mikesez Wrote: I'm not saying it's a legitimate threat, though I don't know any of you well enough to be 100% sure.  
I'm saying it's totally inappropriate and distracting.
You're changing an intellectual conversation into a conversation that's more about pugilism and machismo.
We all agree that they suck. 
It's much more productive and interesting to follow that with "here's why they suck" and "how can we improve it."
Trying to one up each other with "just vote em out" and "voting doesn't work let's kill them all" is neither productive nor interesting.

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The other thing that bothers me about some of you saying "Kill all politicians" is you don't include Trump in that group.  Which makes you naive, not macho.  Trump is a politician and it's infantile to say otherwise.

No one here is going to go massacre anyone. Quit being such a drama queen. 

My point with this whole thing was to show how we (US) don't mean a dang thing to politicians (THEM) and I guess people got confused by the example I used. It's not that difficult to understand. US is the people and THEM are the politicians. 

Does anyone in any way misunderstand what I'm saying?

Not at all.  But my point is, them are us.  We elect them.  We have a democratic republic.  Those people you call "them" come straight out of our own ranks.  We vote them into office.   Blame them all you want for how they act or what they do, but ultimately, WE are responsible.

But also, I agree with Mike.  To say, "they all ought to be guillotined" is pointless bluster.  It's a great way to lower the IQ level of the conversation, but that's about it.

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