Because he's still currently the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for US president in 2024. What he says may not make any sense; that the right wing in the US is embracing it means that his statements cannot stand unchallenged.
If reasonable people ignore him, he won't go away, because unreasonable people are paying attention to him. The sadder thing is that even if he goes away, his supporters will not suddenly become reasonable.
The whole point of revolution is to establish a new order with different laws.
The notion that any ‘side’ doesn’t respect laws and order itself is nonsense. Unfortunately the term ‘law and order’ has been trademarked by certain groups to mean submission to certain brand of authority, but we don’t need to respect that trademark- ‘law and order’ aren’t inherently negative concepts, they’re kind of crucial to a functional society.
I think the argument is, if the left abandons law and order, the right will fill the vacuum with authoritarianism. I believe this.
We are not going to de-fund the police. In Ontario the right wing Ford government has reduced the educational requirements of people entering the police force, this is a blatant attempt to keep the police racist and sexist. The left leaning parties have no interest or plans on how to recruit or train the police. The vacuum, means that right wing parties push to get what they want, an authoritarian police force.
The left leaning parties have no interest or plans on how to recruit or train the police.
I can't speak about Ontario specifically, but broadly speaking this is simply untrue. The left has tons of ideas for how policing should be reformed or what kind of institutions could take the place of many things the police typically do currently.
Lots of those ideas begin with "start over from scratch", however, so the right likes to pretend that those ideas don't exist or just states they aren't possible without giving them fair consideration.
'start over from scratch' is not an option. Many of the other ideas that the left has for reforming the police, such as extra training for soft skills, don't really work. I just don't hear any good ideas. That's the issue, the left really doesn't put out a comprehensive plan for policing communities that needs it.
When judges cease to eliminate conflicts of interest or the appearance thereof, they appear indistinguishable from politicians wined and dined in rarefied settings by lobbyists.
Because they are politicians being wined and dined and bribed--excuse me, lobbied--by wealthy corporate interests.
This is a good article, but what I want to know is, what are we supposed to do about it? The checks and balances built into our political system have failed. There is currently no check on the Supreme Court. They have the power to do whatever they want.
Everyone says "vote", but they're preaching to the choir. Obviously anyone who cares is already voting.
I think ferretting out the cartel members will go about as well as our counter insurgency operations over seas. Lots of collateral damage but this time with a people who Americans find more sympathetic.
OP is relying on a strawman themselves by continuing to use the term “pro-life” to represent the anti-abortion side of the argument. One can be in support of legal, safe access to abortion and still feel that abortion is against their own moral values.
A true “pro-life” stance should by its very definition include the lives of those who could potentially be harmed by carrying a high risk or unwanted pregnancy to term, as well as those of the children born into situations in which their basic needs are unlikely to be met. And yet, far too often we see those who label themselves “pro-life” completely ignore the value of these lives.
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