the great experiment died at the hands of Lincoln in the mid 1800s
We're at that stage of our development where we are now taking the miracle that the founders concocted very much for granted. It's like the stage a sports dynasty gets to when they've been winning a long time. They get complacent, and think it will always be that way, so they let great players walk, decide to rest on their laurels and within a year or 2 find themselves in last place.
Newsom called it, with the clumsiest but most appropriate analogy of his speech: our democracy is not a football to be tossed around. It is a precious, fragile antique vase.
The persistence of the Big Lie is a threat to all future elections and the very foundation on which we are built. Even now, Trump and the GOP are promoting candidates for 2022 with belief & promotion of the Big Lie as the top qualifying criteria. They want candidates who push the idea that American elections have no integrity.
In short, we're blowing it. We have a very good thing going here. We live better than literally billions have lived throughout world history. Free lives, where we can choose to be just about anything we want to be. Go back 100 years, and no country in the world - through thousands of years of history - ever knew this kind of liberty and opportunity.
And in future classrooms, students will ask how this version of the American republic ended, and why people believed the Big Lie. And the teacher will respond that there was no evidence or even anything unusual about the 2020 election. The only reason millions of people believed it was stolen was because a pathological liar who hates losing told them it was stolen.
the great experiment died at the hands of Lincoln in the mid 1800s
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
The PRRI poll finds that 69 percent of Americans do not believe the election was stolen, while only 29 percent do believe this. That latter number largely reflects Republicans, among whom 71 percent believe it. Only very small minorities of independents and Democrats do.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...s-jan-6-trump/
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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