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Heavens forgive me, I’m going to use a sports metaphor here:

Suppose there’s a great athlete, and an opposing team tries to get that player forbidden from play over some arcane technicality. Folks would say “Stop it! Defeat them on the field!” And they’d be right to say it.

Now suppose they’re •not• a great athlete, but they brought a can of gasoline to the last game and tried to set the opposing team, the refs, the stadium, and the crowd on fire after losing.

Suddenly, trying to get that player kicked out is not only reasonable but •necessary•.

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@inthehands
In fact, trying to get that player kicked out is not only reasonable but necessary––even if you don't like the sport but are affected by what happens in the stadium. (Speaking here (1) as an anti-parliamentarian who finds that sometimes it becomes necessary to engage opponents on their terms rather than one's own, and (2) someone who used to clean the Metrodome)

Paul Cantrell

@hornet1936 Ha, way to cross the metaphorical and the literal!

Re the anti-parliamentarianism: I appreciate that, and I wish more people were able to simultaneously hold in their minds both the direction of their own ideal social structures and what is effective in the reality of extant structures. That’s in general, but especially regarding voting.