There's a cold Machiavellian argument that b/c gun issue costs Dems votes & real gun control is virtually impossible in USA system, best to ignore the issue. The flaw here is that mass killings will continue, will make the news, & avoiding it will make Dems look weak.
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There's a type of political strategizing predicated on idea that parties can choose which issues to highlight, which is true only to a limited degree in a nation with a robust civil society & weak or weakish parties. External events impose themselves.
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I deeply and profoundly want to take away the exclamation point key on anything Shor uses to write.
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The uses in this case are so offputting they make whatever point he was trying to make almost unreadable. If there's such a thing as being too online with your typing, that's an example.
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If gun control is popular, which it seems to be, I feel it's the news media's fault that they are framing it as an controversial issue.
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That’s the absurd thing — many gun control measures are actually popular! This is counselling not just abandoning a moral position because it doesn’t poll well, it is abandoning the majority of Americans because you can’t figure out how to use the issue to get elected.
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seems to me that Manchin and those protecting the filibuster are the ones blocking reform, but yeah sure blame Sanders. "worth unpacking" Don't you live in Canada?
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You're reading a lot of things into my tweet that I didn't say.
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Data bros are in the business of interpreting 'is' as 'ought to be'.
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We keep having this conversation as if it could go to a popular vote, when gun reform is and ever will be blocked by the representatives voted in because of our distorted electoral system. Until red state voters change their mind, the status quo will stand.
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