United States Politics

A place to discuss US Politics, general politics, how the US interfaces with world politics, etc.

I don't remember if the other OP had anything special. A lot of posts were deleted during the recent hack, and the thread post was also removed. So we thought it made sense to reboot. 

Canadian tagging in, cause you know, sometimes it feels like US politics have more influence over Canadian life than Canadian politics does. Thankful this does not apply to health care thought 😉.

Yikes.

Where are the hashtag-sAveOuRcHiLdReN Q-nuts when it comes to people like Eastman?

Just tagging so I can keep an eye on you crazy southerners.

Been tempted to post about a few things recently like how released texts prove how Fox News deliberately, knowingly lies about things like Jan 6th to their audience and somehow still gets to call themselves a news channel or about Marjorie Greene tripling down on open, unashamed fascism for everyone to see but at the same time both kinda felt like telling people what they already know.

This may be in a similar vein but we can tally up another year where every extremist mass killing was committed by the right wing. Congrats on another remarkable achievement, conservatism.

Or left wing mass killings go under reported? Or what counts for 'right wing' is applied more loosely than what counts for 'left wing'?

Refer to the Methodology section of the study they're reporting on: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022

I mean it probably helps that:

Left wing extremism basically doesn't exist in the US. 

That left wing politics (eliminating hierarchy) is about ensuring that people are treated equal which means that groups aren't subjected to hate. It also means that certain lives aren't valued less than others.