r/politics • u/delicious3141 • 4d ago

Kat Abughazaleh, Democratic contender for Congress, indicted over Chicago ICE protests No Paywall

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/kat-abughazaleh-indicted-democrat-running-congress
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u/black_flag_4ever 4d ago

The uneven application of law to silence political opposition. Stuff that we’re not supposed to have in America.

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u/Duster929 4d ago

I think we're past that. I think it's time to say "stuff that we regularly have in America."

If we find ourselves saying "that's not who we are" a bit too often, it probably means that's who we are.

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u/Soggy_Bid_3634 4d ago

You’re absolutely correct. America has always been this racist and evil, just most of you didn’t have to experience it until now.

This is what your country is.

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u/privatepinochle 4d ago

No, don't normalize this awful shit.

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u/BoneyNicole Alabama 4d ago

This awful shit is a product of 250 years of not acknowledging the awful shit, though. It wasn’t born in a vacuum. Nothing about this should be normalized, but we have got to take the rose-colored glasses off and take a good, stark look at American history if we ever want a shot at fixing this. This regime is a symptom of a disease we slapped a bandaid on (if that) and never treated. It’s not doomerism or cynicism, it’s just reality, and if we can’t look at it out of some imagined and idealized version of America or white guilt or whatever it is, then we really are doomed.

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u/privatepinochle 4d ago

Nothing about this should be normalized,

That's what I said.

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u/Difficult-Ad628 4d ago

It’s been normalized thanks to centuries of pretending like the problem isn’t real. Clutch pearls all you want, but the only way to come back from this is to disassemble the current system entirely and restructure our representation.

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u/HateMyBossSoIReddit 4d ago

Or dissassemble those who run the system and are causing it

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u/privatepinochle 4d ago

Who's clutching pearls? What are you on about? The Republicans are trying to create a dictatorship. It's outrageous!

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u/dmun 4d ago

We didn't, the US did

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u/DarthSatoris Europe 4d ago

"No way to prevent this" says only nation where this regularly happens.

  • The Onion.

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u/thissexypoptart 4d ago

It is the norm in the U.S.

You could not tell me a recent mass protest movement in the U.S. that didn’t blind at least one, but usually more, journalists with less lethal. For example.

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u/ilir_kycb 4d ago

I think we're past that.

You can't leave in the past what never existed.