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(21,854 posts)Srkdqltr
(9,386 posts)wcmagumba
(5,660 posts)IzzaNuDay
(1,241 posts)Only We the People can save ourselves. But are we willing to do that?
RandySF
(81,206 posts)BannonsLiver
(20,282 posts)bucolic_frolic
(54,075 posts)historical insanities. The Black Death uprooted everything and included the Flagellists I think they were called. Purifying towns for sin by thrashing their own backs to the point of bleeding.
Also the Salem Witch Trials.
If you can separate people from the reality they see, they will do or say anything you want. That's what we've been through, from Q-Anon to J6-was-a-tourist holiday.
We as Democrats are not generating sufficient mental and political energy. We want and live normal. We need Space Aliens on our side, coming to rescue us.
JCMach1
(29,094 posts)There is no going back to the old order.
I am very, very pessimistic about the next 3 years.
moondust
(21,220 posts)Two things you don't even want to consider doing for a convicted felon addicted to a lust for power and wealth:
1. Grant him any kind of "immunity."
2. Give him the power to pardon those who support his tyrannical behavior.
GusBob
(8,136 posts)Raise your hand if you think its time to fight back
ananda
(34,453 posts)Now is the time, it always was.
Hey Joe
(416 posts)Now they are casually murdering citizens and invading foreign countries while threatening to do even more.
This administration has acquired a taste for blood as well as ill gotten wealth and they wont stop by their own will.
Extremely troubling times I never thought I would witness.
RockRaven
(18,739 posts)until it is done, apparently.
Johonny
(25,506 posts)But his own. He don't give fuck about us. Not one fuck.
wcmagumba
(5,660 posts)delisen
(7,228 posts)What they have: money , power and a dying malevolent leader with a punk malevolent leader waiting in the wings.
What we have: patience which has now evaporated and is being replaced by the righteous anger of the peoples for whom Justice is not a toy but a defining principle of life. They will be crushed.