U.S. Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat, did his best to make “good trouble” during President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress since taking office in January.
Brandishing his cane, the Lone Star septuagenarian rose from his seat in the U.S. House chamber and challenged Trump’s claim that he has a sweeping mandate to enact the tidal wave of changes his Republican administration has unleashed within the federal government.
Green stood alone, with his Democratic colleagues content to sit silent and hold quaint church fan signs with words that called the president a liar and criticized billionaire bureaucrat Elon Musk.
Not to nitpick too much 🙂, but saying “class warfare” is a fringe issue is super fucking dark to me. We’re literally in the process of seeing the final form of class divisions and you say its “fringe.”
Not only that, but the other fringe issue you reference are either already coopted by Rs (identity politics) or just valid concerns ranging from empathy for fellow humans (trans issues) to the actual existential (climate change).
The Dems don’t work because they are already purchased by donors, and not actually representative of their constituents. They ran on those fringe ideas and have won popularly nearly every time in those places where identity politics hasn’t completely swallowed everyone’s collective reasoning skills.
/rant
Right. Class warfare and extreme economic inequality is essentially the most important issue facing all of society at this point, like it has been for centuries, and it’s, according to this intellectual luminary, a “fringe issue” or a “left wing issue”.
This is absurd, too. Republicans sure are full of total shit these days, like always.