I want to make clear that I don't think this is necessarily a *good* thing. These #PoliticalLessonPosts where I try to point out elected psychology and incentives aren't about right or wrong. It's about looking at the reality in front of us.
Pritzker when asked about reports of law enforcement officers firing at a woman who rammed their vehicle: "Well, we don't have a lot of facts. What happens in these sorts of incidents is, typically, ICE puts out a press release before anybody else can speak to the press, and then it gets reported on social media and elsewhere. Remember, these are the same folks who killed a person, an unarmed person, just a couple weeks ago in Franklin Park. At first they said that the officer had been threatened with his life. The reality of it and the truth of it has now come out, and that wasn't the case. They killed somebody. So, here, it's really hard to know exactly what the facts are. And they wont' let us access the facts. They are just putting out their propaganda, and then we have got to later determine what actually happened.
So this bit from the office of Governor Pritzker is right in line with what I've talked about in the last 2 #PoliticalLessonPosts about authoritarians and narrative and shows us that there are people who see what's happening and will call it out.
I was once asked why I do these #PoliticalLessonPosts and a part of it is one of my friends pointing out to me how rare it is to have a parent actually give those lessons explicitly.
People were usually shocked when I could talk with some knowledge at 18. My hope is these help others with that.
I try to confine these sorts of overt political posts to our #PoliticalLessonPosts on Sunday now but I'll *also* add that this is coinciding with the GOP's failure to get their horrible legislation out of committee that would've gutted Medicaid.
We've had a decent little crop of new folks so let me introduce myself.
Hello, I'm Aaron and I'm a fantasy illustrator focused on non-Eurocentric stories and increasingly lately it seems, very basic political analysis/education for my fellow US folks through my #PoliticalLessonPosts.
This is in the context of something else entirely but it's also an observation my mom taught me and something I'll pass on as part of our #PoliticalLessonPosts here.
Truth without context can be as dangerous as a lie.
