courts / SCOTUS let the government roll out a massive and obviously illegal tax on citizens for a long time.
The don't forget about congress. 216 GOP congressional reps voted to handicap congress's ability to halt tariffs. For much of the current session of congress, their calendar wasn't counting days.
It is sad how little U.S. voters seem to care about anyone but themselves. Near everything the Finns are dong could be done in here, but too many voices would complain about the cost, the paternalism, or how they might be slightly inconvenienced.
Those seem like harder challenges then the changes themselves.
The same should apply to all the laws ICE 'agents' are breaking in their "enforcement".
What, do you think they should not be punished, or should be immune from following the law? The laws passed by the representatives and president of the democracy you're so keen on?
If you think they are following the law, you sound crazy, because you are.
There's such a long list of things one could say that about.
In this instance the "representation matters" thought process seems to bear out.
Folks talk about aspiring to role models who look like them. People also react strongly when this sort of thing happens to someone who looks like them.
You 'othered' people from the get-go. Why are you so upset about others doing it?
> You automatically assumed that I was a conservative.
Where did anyone call you a conservative? Referring to conservatives in the 3rd person is not referring to you?
Why are you taking things personally?
> You assumed that I was using the term 'your justice' as a reference to ideological instead of national identification
Because that is often how it is discussed. Having never met a person who uses the words the way you are using them, so why assume that someone is using a term in a novel way? In Dutch, are you going to assume people are using terminology to mean something, while technically correct, that no one you have met uses? Props if so, but that's sounds like a tall tale.
> You have now listed a long list of things which according to you apply to those other people who you do not agree with
They apply to many people. If you do not have personal experience, that's fine.
But, don't try to invalidate other people's lived experiences.
> When I asked a direct question on whether something applied to your circles
There was no deflection. Simply a response. If you cannot parse the response, it can be clarified to your benefit.
> You tried to imply 'racist' motives
Explaining why something is racist is not prescribing intent. Why are you prescribing intent, but while criticizing others by falsely reading into their intent?
> When called out on this you bring up the tired old trope of 'dog whistles'
Pretending something isn't a problem is a rather poor defense.
> using a severely biased Wikipedia link.
Maybe you're the one with a rather large bias? Or maybe small bias? Who knows.
> I don't get the feeling people discussing politics are trying to solve any problems
It depends on what you view a "discussing politics". To borrow a quote, "politics is the art of the possible." You have to use politics to define what problems are even considered, much less the possible ways they might get solved.
For instance, unlimited spending on political campaigns is either a problem, or not a problem, depending on your politics, never mind if it should be solved via amendment, court packing, or congressional act[1].
I agree, many people go hardcore on tribalism. I would likely agree it is a bad thing that many Americans define politics as, "us" and, "them". If you want to be results oriented, you have to convince people it's a problem, you're going to need to use politics to do so.
> Now I think the opposite: politics isn’t the problem; bad politics is. And pretending politics doesn’t exist? That’s how bad politics wins.
Feels like that's how extremism wins? If no one wants to confront other's political ideas, out of fear irrational responses,
At least in the United States, Americans are more unified on issues than the current executive branch, or (at the very least) the largest main stream media outlet would have you believe. It'd be great if people worked at the center, dealing with outcomes. There's far too much talking past each other, as people stand on their mountain of comfortable points, far too many who ignore evidence as soon as it does not conform to their world view.