kurtseitz.bsky.social
Earth citizen. Native New Yorker. Trail builder. Traveler. Seeking truth, light, peace, progress, community, liberty and justice for all. Ulster and Otsego Counties NY.
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"That is the world that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are dismantling. They are destroying the government that works for all Americans in favor of using the government to concentrate their own wealth and power."
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"After socialists took control of Russia in 1917, American men of property insisted that any restrictions on their control of resources or the government were a form of 'Bolshevism'. But a worldwide depression brought voters of all parties behind President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 'New Deal'...
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"Roosevelt ushered in the Progressive Era with government regulation of business to protect the ability of individuals to participate in American society as equals. The rise of a global economy in the twentieth century repeated this pattern...
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"As industrialists gathered the power of the government into their own hands, people of all political parties once again came together to reclaim American democracy...
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"In the 1890s the rise of industry led to the concentration of wealth at the top of the economy, and once again, wealthy leaders began to abandon equality for the idea that some people were better than others...
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"By the 1850s, elite southerners, whose fortunes rested on the production of raw materials by enslaved Black Americans, worked to take over the government and to get rid of the principles in the Declaration of Independence...
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"For all that the founders excluded Indigenous Americans, Black colonists, and all women from their vision of government, the idea that the government should work for ordinary people rather than nobles and kings was revolutionary...
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"and that God and the laws of nature have given them certain fundamental rights. Those include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The role of government was to make sure people enjoyed these rights, they said, and thus a government is legitimate only if people consent to that government...
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"The capacity for obedience to malevolent authority lies not in some distant "other," but in the human heart itself. The voltage dial is turning. The question is: Will we continue to press the button?"
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"The terrifying implication of Milgram's work isn't that Americans are especially susceptible to authoritarianism – it's that we're just as susceptible as anyone else, despite our democratic traditions and ideals of individual liberty...
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"What Milgram showed us is that this compliance doesn't require evil intent or even agreement with the authority's goals. It simply requires the right psychological conditions: a recognized authority figure, gradual escalation of demands, and a system that diffuses individual responsibility...
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We can not have another weak Dem prez backed by another weak Dem Congress.
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"The jobs report shows an impressive 10,000 jobs added, a massive improvement from Biden's hellish and abysmal 200,000 jobs added." (A bar graph is shown indicating that 10,000 is a bigger number than 200,000).
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We spent a week in New Orleans before the flu… loved it… first time in NOLA 😊
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Nasty flu, but yes!
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Nice job, Megan! 😊
Long time no see… good to find you on Bluesky.
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The European DAX has been booming as American stocks falter.
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yes indeed
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"Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government. Donald Trump is just a dementia-addled old man along for the ride, ranting about windmills and magnets and taking over canals, and content to just sign large pieces of paper for TV cameras all day.