silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoHarris’s New Strategy: Equate Fighting Climate Change With ‘Freedom’ | The Harris campaign isn’t offering details on climate policy but is framing fight to protect the environment as one of patriotismwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1135arrow-down15
arrow-up1130arrow-down1external-linkHarris’s New Strategy: Equate Fighting Climate Change With ‘Freedom’ | The Harris campaign isn’t offering details on climate policy but is framing fight to protect the environment as one of patriotismwww.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square17linkfedilink
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoOMG patriotism doesn’t have to involve treason
minus-squareK1nsey6@lemmy.mlBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoNo, but it does involve blind loyalty, which allows politicians to get away with a bunch of shit
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoLol no. Remember here: Democrats just forced a sitting President to not run for re-election
minus-squareK1nsey6@lemmy.mlBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoThe donor class forced a sitting president to not run for re election…
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoHe could have told the big money folks to piss off if he had popular support. He didn’t
minus-squareK1nsey6@lemmy.mlBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoHe didn’t have popular support.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoExactly what I was saying, though I had a typo where I substituted “of” for “if”
OMG patriotism doesn’t have to involve treason
No, but it does involve blind loyalty, which allows politicians to get away with a bunch of shit
Lol no. Remember here: Democrats just forced a sitting President to not run for re-election
The donor class forced a sitting president to not run for re election…
He could have told the big money folks to piss off if he had popular support. He didn’t
He didn’t have popular support.
Exactly what I was saying, though I had a typo where I substituted “of” for “if”