I received this bit overnight from a friend up north, with the subject line, misspellings and all:
Want your blood to boil?d
Rather bald-faced manipulation, isn’t it? Here’s the body:
Heard on the news tonight that Minnesota is putting forth a bill to make MN a “sanctuary state” !!!!! Good grief! The dems control governorship, and noth the house and senate in MN. We’re doomed.
or how about this:
If this doesn’t make you panic, nothing will. Disgusting.
So I glanced through the StarTribune article and then replied to the sender:
“Uh huh. From the cited article:
It says the board supports “efforts to ensure that non-citizen residents are assured due process in the criminal legal system, be free from harassment, and supported in their efforts to remain in Minnesota and contribute to community vibrancy.”
Terrible? Horrible? The doom of society?
Hysteria.
Here’s the problem with the far right conservatives: Manipulation. They take serious discussion and turn it into The End Of The World. And they do it again and again and again, all while sticking their hands out.
And everyone’s learning this is how they operate. You can’t have a serious debate with them, you – or rather they – won’t compromise unless it’s an overseas issue, and even that is beginning to become infected with this sickness.
So we don’t have as serious of debates as we might. I have a conservative friend with whom I dined a month or so ago. He runs an organization that keeps an eye on the Legislature, and he expressed concerns about the Democrats’ control of all both wings of the legislature and the governorship. Not that they are Democrats per se, but the potential, partially fulfilled, that bills are now sailing through the legislature and becoming law far too quickly, without the substantive and respectful debate that society should require.
And that, by and large, is the fault of conservatives who have suffered the manipulative grifters to not only live, but to hold positions of power and influence. Names such as Trump, Gingrich, Greene, Gaetz, for everyone who is paying attention knows they are clowns, absolutists and grifters.”
There ya go.
