RE: 2020 Election - The curtain starts coming down
01-08-2021, 05:51 PM (This post was last modified: 01-08-2021, 05:53 PM by SilverFang01.)
01-08-2021, 05:51 PM (This post was last modified: 01-08-2021, 05:53 PM by SilverFang01.)
(01-08-2021, 02:48 PM)Labster Wrote: To me I look at them, a mix of people wearing shirts bearing neo-Nazi slogans, Confederate flag bearer bros, your run of the mill skinhead or two, and a few dozen gentlefolk rejected during Duck Dynasty casting calls, and I can't help but think back to this bit from Ash Knight:
gryphon & juniper' Wrote: "Why are we here?"
Saionji gave his student a sidelong look. "Philosophy isn't one of your usual hobbies," he said.
"No, not in an abstract sense. I mean, what are we doing -here-? These people... " He hesitated, fidgeting.
"Go ahead," Saionji said. "Never hesitate to speak your mind to me, Ani."
"... Well... it's just that most of them are -losers-," Anakin said. To his surprise, the remark drew a snort of laughter from his teacher.
"That's true - more true than you know," Saionji said.
All of these folks are history's rejects. And even when they invade our government on a fluke, a few hours later we go back to what we were doing, denounce them a bit, and move on. Trump is a loser, and so are all of his followers.
So? These guys were taken as clowns and losers too at first. A couple decades later no one was laughing at them.
So I am not inclined to dismiss them. As a matter of fact I’m having the same wish as Vir, just with the GOP leadership in place of Mr. Morden.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg