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I looked up this case also.
As a Democrat, I joined the party to help my fellow neighbors, living in a national historic African American district all but destroyed by Black Democrat politics. Selling themselves and each other out to stay in office. I've even watched as a Democrat-dominated city council allowed the demolition of a historic black church, and now the city is trying to charge them for the wrongful demolition or else they risk losing their land that has a lien.
And this party is supposed to represent the underserved minorities?
The only thing that keeps me balanced is knowing that all parties and groups go through this in one form or another. This denial of their own abuses, while projecting blame on others.
When I confront my conservative Republican friends, about holding private corporations to enforce and uphold the Constitution, similarly to how government has to respect the Bill of Rights for citizens, they balk. They won't look at the damages done, both environmentally and financially at the expense of taxpayers, by corporations abusing "personhood" to assert unequal/disproportionate collective influence without check and balance or equal due process by individual people or smaller communities affected. So they yell and fault pro-choice liberals for wanting freedom to choose abortion without responsibility for the consequences or abuses, but when it comes to Constitutional checks on guns or logging, etc. suddenly they don't want government interfering with private freedoms either!!!
So each side has its "blindspots" and faults. Where they refuse to address an area that is not politically convenient or in line with their agenda, but are quick to point out where another group does this same thing! They ALL do that. Yes, it's annoying and destructive.
But once you blame one group, you end up blaming them all for where they fall short.
In short, what is happening, if people don't resolve conflicts in ideological religious or political differences directly, they can abuse the political or public arena, including the media, to try to overrule the opposition by majority-rule instead of really resolving the problem itself. Then, in order to win in the media campaign wars, they find faults to discredit the other while denying equivalent charges against themselves. So it goes back and forth.
If people would just stick with Constitutional standards and ethics, all these things would have to be resolved, in order to come up with policies that reflect all interests equally.
Whatever this other habit is, of beating each other up with majority-rule bullying,
it's great for selling tickets to watch these catfights, it's great for ratings, I guess.
But what it contributes to solving problems, I don't know.
It seems to take resources and focus AWAY from collaboration on mutual solutions.
In the meantime, it is sad to see historic landmarks lost while millions are spent fighting over these issues. This has been happening in my neighborhood since the days Freed Slaves built the churches and houses nearly all lost to demolition and development, while people fight for control of the land and the funding. Been going on forever, and it is still something that you never fully accept or get used to. It is still wrong, unrecognized.
I looked up this case also.
As a Democrat, I joined the party to help my fellow neighbors, living in a national historic African American district all but destroyed by Black Democrat politics. Selling themselves and each other out to stay in office. I've even watched as a Democrat-dominated city council allowed the demolition of a historic black church, and now the city is trying to charge them for the wrongful demolition or else they risk losing their land that has a lien.
And this party is supposed to represent the underserved minorities?
The only thing that keeps me balanced is knowing that all parties and groups go through this in one form or another. This denial of their own abuses, while projecting blame on others.
When I confront my conservative Republican friends, about holding private corporations to enforce and uphold the Constitution, similarly to how government has to respect the Bill of Rights for citizens, they balk. They won't look at the damages done, both environmentally and financially at the expense of taxpayers, by corporations abusing "personhood" to assert unequal/disproportionate collective influence without check and balance or equal due process by individual people or smaller communities affected. So they yell and fault pro-choice liberals for wanting freedom to choose abortion without responsibility for the consequences or abuses, but when it comes to Constitutional checks on guns or logging, etc. suddenly they don't want government interfering with private freedoms either!!!
So each side has its "blindspots" and faults. Where they refuse to address an area that is not politically convenient or in line with their agenda, but are quick to point out where another group does this same thing! They ALL do that. Yes, it's annoying and destructive.
But once you blame one group, you end up blaming them all for where they fall short.
In short, what is happening, if people don't resolve conflicts in ideological religious or political differences directly, they can abuse the political or public arena, including the media, to try to overrule the opposition by majority-rule instead of really resolving the problem itself. Then, in order to win in the media campaign wars, they find faults to discredit the other while denying equivalent charges against themselves. So it goes back and forth.
If people would just stick with Constitutional standards and ethics, all these things would have to be resolved, in order to come up with policies that reflect all interests equally.
Whatever this other habit is, of beating each other up with majority-rule bullying,
it's great for selling tickets to watch these catfights, it's great for ratings, I guess.
But what it contributes to solving problems, I don't know.
It seems to take resources and focus AWAY from collaboration on mutual solutions.
In the meantime, it is sad to see historic landmarks lost while millions are spent fighting over these issues. This has been happening in my neighborhood since the days Freed Slaves built the churches and houses nearly all lost to demolition and development, while people fight for control of the land and the funding. Been going on forever, and it is still something that you never fully accept or get used to. It is still wrong, unrecognized.
