No one remembers these fights anymore. Today it’s a given and an expectation. Trump/Musk/maga could turn out to be a gift to make us remember why all of this is serious and important to us and to democracy.
Asking for freedom won't work - but not spending Any money in ALL the places that are supporting the Rump is a good start. Going to have to get pick and choose extra hard on where I spend my money. MONEY talks
Absolutely true. But unfortunately we have created a society in which everyone feels entitled to everything without work or effort. This isn’t a trump issue it is societal. His voters think he will solve all their problems. So funny how they all hate the commies.
Yes, how many women alive today know that women suffrage demonstrators were not only arrested, but jailed and force-fed when they called a hunger strike? During the Woodrow Wilson administration!
Power corrupts is right in the peoples faces just now.
Money is a promise.
Promise is being stolen.
Children will suffer most.
There are fair ways: not Felon⁴⁷ style.
It’s made to be messy
Designed to go slow
Constitutionally cumbersome
That’s how it should go
Beware of all power
given to one
The glue of democracy
will come undone
So do not get them up so easily. Hold the dems accountable and remind them of their oath to their constitution and not a dictator. Tell them it's time to take the gloves off and stop talking. Start STANDING UP AND DOING. RIGHT.
They don’t know about the struggles, because they don’t know their history. What history that is taught in the schools has been whitewashed. I didn’t learn about the ‘Trail of Tears’ until I was in my 30s. I went to school in Tennessee. The name Tennessee is of Native American origin
#teachthetruth
As a kid in a very liberal part of a purple state, I didn't realize how lucky I was to get a real history history education. The thought of growing up I'm a conservative bubble is terrifying. It is just too easy to be conned and brainwashed. My heart breaks for those kids.
Exactly!!
That’s that’s what the Republicans are doing.
They’re fighting to preserve democracy the democrats are trying to destroy.
Democracy to a liberal is when you get your way. Anything else is fascism.
That’s exactly how fascist think.
So you tell me, who’s the fascist and nazi
I got educated k-12 in pub schools in Oh in 60s-70s, when oh had great schools.When Oh had strong teachers unions co& most parents remember WW2 & what they lived thru,also WW1. Moved to NC 13yrs ago.Odd how south teaches didn’t history of civil war.Odd how people now believe Nazis are good people.
And the rights were not obtained with talk. Sometimes strikes were met with violence and death as well as protests.
We're not in 1964. Government pretended to be lawful then. We're in 1878. 1895. 1914. 1925. 1933. Times when the government was violent towards it's own people or heading toward war.
Then we forgot that and got lazy. We stopped fighting. Now our rights are disappearing. Are we too old and too tired to fight again? I see Ukraine. And Mark Elias. And Mark Hamill. They fight for us. LFG!
Why is all default legislation just used to oppress people instead of helping them? Why should people have to fight again for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Because the battle for those lofty ideals is unending. It's our turn.
If you don't tend a garden, it becomes overgrown with weeds.
It's time to rip out the weeds!
It really was never true in the first place, not everyone has had the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We have been fighting to achieve it, and now it seems we never will.
We don’t have to stand by we need to stand up in the streets by the hundreds of thousands. We do not have the luxury of waiting. I do not want to stand by while history repeats itself
Honestly, I wish I was able to give up and look the other way like the whites did (and still do), but I have been burdened with the curse of knowing too much about the various injustices of life.
While citizens stepped up and united and protested for change, it took leaders who upheld their oath of office to get the wanted changes. But for decades leaders haven't upheld their oath. March4ourLives is example; clearly most wanted change; leaders did not, because leader greed came first.
Yeah a 100 plus years ago. You marching around in the streets right now doesn't make any sense. It's like it's groundhog Day in your Mind and that little bastard is filling your head full of POOP> Get Help.
We got all those by getting angry, by getting in the face of power and making it understand that we will grind the economy to a stop until we get our way, when did we become so weak? We used to DO things when the system didn't work for us. Now we just bitch about it on twitter.
"rights" replaced "obligations" during the Renaissance. Then they were commodified to be given as rewards for "good behavior" towards the ruling classes.
You are correct. But why is this true!? What in human nature motivates citizens in a democracy to vote for horrible people who suppress freedom and curb justice?
Because originally chiefs were the ones with the biggest sticks and a bunch of followers willing to wield them. Our power structures have rarely deviated from this ever since.
We have no choice. Equal rights have seemed to be a constant fight. Unfortunately many whites are insecure. They feel people will retaliate for their cruelty through out history. In fact all anyone wants is an equal chance to succeed.
Blacks didn’t get the right to take a front seat by staying in the back of the bus, they boycotted for over a year-almost bankrupted a city. That’s when things change. We have to destroy what they love-money. Don’t pay taxes for the next years! He’s destroying the IRS-who is going to collect now?
Agree. A reality, never thought there would be an American invasion in the North, did they run out of countries in the South that have been done already?
“Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know what life is really worth
It's not all that glitter is gold and
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light, ay
Stand up for your right” - Bob Marley
Exactly, lunch counters & bus seats didn't suddenly become available because white people were being nice. Voting rights, access to better schools & higher education were not given, they were demanded by people who were beaten, spat upon and murdered for asking. How many now are willing to insist?
When oppression is the default and rights exist fleetingly when enough people are willing to die for them at once. So free! Hopefully we can change that entire framework someday.
There are a couple of now out-of-print history books I was introduced to several years ago. Vol 1 and 2 of "The Underside of American History". Really opened my eyes.
You got to wonder why you have to fight so hard for basic human rights. There is nothing land of the free about that but it is fucking brave. People GAVE their own power to governments and now it is being abused and they want the power back. ✊🇨🇦✌️
We are going to have to do it soon, his Nazis army are walking the streets trying to start trouble, trump is ready to call in military if we are violent let them start it which they will, trump wants a race war, he needs to be impeached and removed ASAP including Musk
And notice how they are using the word “woke” to smear everything progressive. Strange narratives like: “Weekends and holidays are woke or for wimps because real men/Americans/Christians work hard”. Or “cut sick pay - those people are just faking”. Self punishment from right wing masochists.
We are in our own "greatest generation" moment. Our grandparents literally fought Nazis while a good portion of the current generation couldn't even be bothered to vote against them.
This. Democratic Party needs to abandon nice for now. The game has long since changed and its voters want an end to MAGA madness pretty much at all costs. We can return to nice when we win back our nation’s soul.
Strategize: lead with things maga cares about too Medicare, Medicaid, social security, NOAA, jobs.
We need easy to understand, consistent, repetitive, and unifying slogans. No big words.
LGBT, reproductive rights, immigration are all important to us, but it will make them hate us more.
That's a nice statement; very white of you. Noting mentioned at all about the horrible death-strown path African Americans have cut in order that immigrants and all can enjoy the American dream and its freedoms.
And this election this generation felt so entitled they said Dems didn’t inspire them enough… they didn’t have to fight the fight they’re will now have to.
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https://www.change.org/Impeach_Donald_Trump_2025
https://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-martyrs/
And sometimes we have to fight to keep the ones we have
Persist and resist together
Money is a promise.
Promise is being stolen.
Children will suffer most.
There are fair ways: not Felon⁴⁷ style.
https://youtube.com/shorts/8_Vgdl-NqS4?si=nGbMVdU6a_UHIXiM
If you aren't a straight, white, Christian conservative man, your rights are now being plotted for taking away by maga.
Don't bend on anyone's rights and don't try to find "common ground" with those who hate.
Designed to go slow
Constitutionally cumbersome
That’s how it should go
Beware of all power
given to one
The glue of democracy
will come undone
#teachthetruth
That’s that’s what the Republicans are doing.
They’re fighting to preserve democracy the democrats are trying to destroy.
Democracy to a liberal is when you get your way. Anything else is fascism.
That’s exactly how fascist think.
So you tell me, who’s the fascist and nazi
Feb 17, 2025
We're not in 1964. Government pretended to be lawful then. We're in 1878. 1895. 1914. 1925. 1933. Times when the government was violent towards it's own people or heading toward war.
If you don't tend a garden, it becomes overgrown with weeds.
It's time to rip out the weeds!
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”
— G. Michael Hopf
We have hard times coming…
Don't give them it ✊️
This guy is a trumper and you follow him. 🖤
—Beastie Boys
The USA is 248 years old.
It is a nation greatly divided.
Civil War is inevitable.
Now being stripped away as easily as blowing in a feather with, apparently, no one able to stop it.
Not this one.
Fuck off.
The majority of Americans don’t vote & that’s how trump got in because all they heard was getting illegal brown ppl that take my job deported.
Let's not welcome fascism in through the ballot box!
#FUCKGOP
Need an uprising of real people stopping this..
Similar to J6. 💪🏼
And he’s prepping for that by replacing every soldier with trigger-happy loyalists.
I know you don't know what life is really worth
It's not all that glitter is gold and
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light, ay
Stand up for your right” - Bob Marley
https://generalstrikeus.com/
https://youtu.be/71p468A4Po0?si=NjEkuyg3DgJl1JX1
WTP hit the streets and march this we have to win it’s our country 🇺🇸🗽⚖️
It is our turn to do the hard thing.
Rage against these scumbfucks!
We need easy to understand, consistent, repetitive, and unifying slogans. No big words.
LGBT, reproductive rights, immigration are all important to us, but it will make them hate us more.
too will pass as we fight against trumps sick and twisted extremist project 2025 policy.