Looks like we might have the world to fight over

[Jed Dilligan]

amongst ourselves, if the GOP keeps tanking the way it has been at least until November. Let's not forget to win before tearing each other up too much.

I like to think about what the sides will be when we start fighting each other, instead of them, for control. What I see here are people who are way into the law versus people who are way fed up with the law. Both sides have good points. Both sides have a valid comprehensive worldview. In fact, it seems to me that we could build a pretty good society on compromises and decentralization if these were the two factions.

And yet, we'll probably have to pull together yet again to meet the Bushbot bitter-enders with tanks and aircraft... Oh well. It's nice to dream.

WDYT?

[porphyrian]

1. I think more people would be lawful if it was fair and just.

However, it's not. Our legal system, like our government, is less and less for "the People" and more and more for special (often corporate) interests. The laws are irregularly enforced, with a statistically racist and classist bias. The sentences of those convicted, when not dictated by mandatory minimums created by legislators overstepping their Constitutionally-defined bounds, are also statistically racist and classist, especially with regards to the death penalty. It's been this way for decades now. Those who haven't noticed this aren't poor or a minority.