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We have lots of Rights in this country: More Rights than any people have ever had in history. But Rights, ALL RiIGHTS, come with responsibility and one responsibility that comes with EVERY right we have as Americans is the responsibility to know and UNDERSTAND what the consequences of elections will be AND to VOTE! Donald … Read more
All along, Trump seemed like a twisted caricature of every rotten reflex of the radical right. That he has prevailed, that he has won this election, is a crushing blow to the spirit; it is an event that will likely cast the country into a period of economic, political, and social uncertainty that we cannot … Read more
The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of … Read more
It turns out that we were wrong. There turn out to be a huge number of people — white people, living mainly in rural areas — who don’t share at all our idea of what America is about. For them, it is about blood and soil, about traditional patriarchy and racial hierarchy. And there were … Read more
the number of hate groups in the country has grown immensely in the past year. the number of organizations linked to the Ku Klux Klan grew from 72 in 2014 to 190 in 2015, the same year Trump announced his campaign. “I think that he has allowed his racist remarks to become the norm,” Ramos … Read more
In 1998 Bill Clinton was embroiled in a scandal that ended with Congress attempting to impeach him. James Dobson (leader of Focus on the Family, an Evangelical “values voters” political group) wrote a letter: “character DOES matter. You can’t run a family, let alone a country, without it. How foolish to believe that a person … Read more
Racism, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and nationalism promoted through blatant misinformation and the peddling of an unending stream of conspiracy theories; a distain for both the opposition party and democracy itself; this describes not just Trump, but his audience. Source: Trump closes with an anti-Semitic ad—but for the Republican Party, it may be only a beginningRead … Read more
RSSREBLOGGED BYKatydid In every election, some overzealous supporters of a presidential candidate will compare the opponent to Hitler. But in this election cycle, Trump’s own supporters were saying Trump was like Hitler, and they were doing so with approval. We would have to be utterly blind not to be horrified. Trump wouldn’t just be a … Read more
“Before leaving this election behind we must all thank Donald Trump for the one good thing he did,” Bill Maher said. “He exposed evangelicals who are big Trump supporters as the shameless hypocrites they have always been. I don’t know if you noticed, but Republicans didn’t get to play the Jesus card this time around … Read more
While I’ve opposed the Trump candidacy from the start, I’ve never disparaged Trump voters. Some are friends and neighbors; they’re all fellow Americans. We should take their concerns seriously. But we should also demand that they be serious, that they draw distinctions between these two presidential candidates. Yes, Hillary Clinton is a flawed leader — … Read more