"Only a revived faith in who we are, what we have been, what we have achieved can provide the energy, purpose, and direction to help us find the courage and determination to perpetuate our special democracy." It's over when we give up.
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Personally I fly a 35 star flag at my home. The flag of Lincoln, the flag of Liberty and Union, the flag of the Emancipation Proclamation, the flag that flew over Appomattox Court House when Lee surrendered to Grant. I am not handing my country over without a fight.
I deleted all Meta products and X off my phone. I refuse to give either oligarch anymore money. Tim still doesn't get it. The oligarchs are privatizing the federal government.
Not necessarily your usual political fellow traveller, but would you support Bernie Sander's suggested democracy roadshow or some such? I rather think you are all in this mess together and some sort of collaboration is required to make necessary leap in ideas.
It’s over - too many Americans mainly watch trash tv and know way to little abt domestic as well as international politics and consequences of failed policies.
It’s an uninformed nation
Bernie's stump speech includes a quote from Lincoln's Gettysburg address, "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from this earth. NOT a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires." Good line.
Interesting to note that the bull work is composed of Republicans who pretty much single-handedly and methodically over five decades dismantled our democracy with every decision and every court they packed with billionaire money in the background
I guess the council for national policy, the Heritage foundation, the Koch Brothers foundation… Your Powell memo, which was the starting bell to start to dismantle democracy, took five decades and a few presidents crashing the economy
Republican assholes used Roe versus Wade as their little stick to whip up votes over decades and decades, and now that it’s gone, realize how much that type of law helps women that have difficult pregnancies
Even your little Liz Cheney, idiot, moron couldn’t even game out that idea
Every single thing you’ve been elected to do has been servicing donors, and all Gus and then you wake up and realize the whole fucking country is cracking under the weight of your fucking silence of your fucking party
Does none of this ring a bell to you republican people?
I have visited the American cemeteries at Normandy, Liege (Henri-Chapelle) & the Ardennes, & I am despondent when I think about the freedoms that all those men sacrificed their lives to preserve, & how Trump is now single-handedly burning the product of this sacrifice to the ground. We must fight on
The problem with the Bulwark is, the conservative Republicans behind it have always been against the progressive liberal agenda "for the people": strengthening retirement security, healthcare, public education, housing, equal rights, regulation of business for the common good & progressive taxation
I appreciate the sentiment of this piece, but the idea of America as a beacon of freedom that it celebrates is dead, and it won't be coming back even as a faint prospect for a long time, until MAGA is done and its leadership are in jail.
Never ever ever give up and as Margaret Mead said “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”
We owe our sacrifices whatever they to those who sacrificed before us
We are at this point specifically because of the patriarchal, supremacist, system on which this country is based. We will never have a thriving society as long as we worship god and money above all else.
don't tell me to 'not give up' when you cheer on the mass murder of Palestinians. You want to end ethnic nationalist bullshit in America, end it abroad.
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It’s an uninformed nation
And no tax breaks that make multimillionaires billionaires so a working class person gets an extra $1500 a year does not fucking count
Putting Sarah Palin as your fucking standardbearer to try to stop people from getting healthcare finally after decades of being left out
And then you attacked the ACA 11 times in Congress
Even your little Liz Cheney, idiot, moron couldn’t even game out that idea
Does none of this ring a bell to you republican people?
We owe our sacrifices whatever they to those who sacrificed before us