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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Before Trump can govern
Date: 11/15/24 5:17 PM
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The folks that DID do many of those things are in core jobs in agencies in D.C. and have proven that their oaths of office/employment agreements don't mean much to them.

So why not get rid of them? The country doesn't need this.


The same analysis applies. Almost none of the many tens of thousands of people in core jobs in agencies were doing any of these things. They weren't rioting, they weren't following people home or terrorizing anyone, they weren't denying people their constitutional rights. They're just people working their jobs and trying to advance the policies they believe in (even if you disagree with what they think is the right policy).

If you're ever looking at a small handful of people and telling yourself, "Well, that's what Democrats are all like," you're going to end up with a really distorted view of Democrats. And you obviously hate it when Democrats/progressives do that to you - you think they're wrong when they look at a subset of Republicans and conclude that that's what Republicans are like as a group. You clearly think the correct answer is that political parties that contain literally tens of millions of people are going to be varied and contain all kinds of people, good and bad - so that should apply to Democrats as well.
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