“I do think the frustration that people have with the “withhold my vote” set is the failure to solve for problems. I don’t like drones. And I agree they create more enemies. But I also think there are terrorists who would hurt us every chance they get. I also think that a significant attack during a Democratic Presidency would hurt progressives policy even more than 9/11 did. So I think for both humanitarian and politically progressive reasons the President needs to prevent terrorist attacks. He has chosen to do that with drones. I don’t think he has chosen that because he is a heartless, pathological killer (like a flesh eating psychopath in one diary). I think he legitimately thinks it is the best way to fight terrorism with the fewest American casualties. I understand that people disagree and in many ways i think they could be correct. But what I do find to be unacceptable is a failure of drone critics to try to solve for the problem of terrorism. Or to make the case that there is nothing to fear from terrorism.”
The chameleon like nature of the current administration has outdone Orwell so much that his writing seems sadly inoffensive and passe. This shit just boggles my fucking brain, the ways people twist their thoughts and reprogram their beliefs to fit the prevailing political climate of their favorite team. This was even one of the more tame examples from the thread I found it from. There’s something to be said for the argument that electoral politics fundamentally and dynamically reprogram people with an efficiency that makes standard religions blush.
It really shouldn’t at this point, but it still manages to awe me.