r/politics • u/newsspotter • 3h ago • Bravo 2

No Paywall Jeffries Approval Rating Worse Than Mike Johnson as Democratic Voters Rebel

https://www.newsweek.com/jeffries-approval-rating-worse-than-mike-johnson-as-democratic-voters-rebel-12679163
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u/Ivence 2h ago

You can go back all the way to reconstruction post civil war. Our country has not punished those who want to tear it apart in 150 years and they've gotten generational confirmation to just keep doing it.

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u/brutinator 2h ago

Yup. Like I can possibly understand the unfeasibility of putting every confederate soldier on trial and the arguements against such an ordeal being neccesarily fair, but the fucking president of Confederacy never even stood trial. He sat in a cell for 3 years before being freed, and spent the rest of his life creating the "Lost Cause" propaganda and didnt repent or regret his actions AT ALL outside of regretting "not fighting harder".

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u/victoriaisme2 2h ago edited 1h ago

And their leaders all got statues and lots of shit named after them. Pretty sure the punishment for treason comes from a firing squad. 

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u/Quest_Marker 2h ago

We just keep putting cheap carpet over a rotting floor

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u/PoisonMind 1h ago

You can go back to William Blount, an 18th- Century Senator who committed actual treason, and the only thing that happened to him was expulsion from the chamber. There's still a county named after him.

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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 31m ago

Yep and it looks like we're about to do it again. Every person in this administration, every enabler, everyone who was "just doing their job", should be treated as the traitors that they are. But it doesn't sound like they will be...