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“As the 2020 election approaches, the survival of the United States as a democratic republic is a topic of national conversation—Trumpian authoritarianism; voter suppression and gerrymandering; concerns about foreign intervention, election security, and the role of in politics.
Our twelve-part Season 4 series on democracy touches on those concerns but goes much deeper, effectively retelling the story of the United States from its beginnings up to the present as we complicate, maybe upend, our listeners’ understanding of American history.”
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MissKathleen 9 Aug 28
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They always try to make it sound like one side is the hero, one side is the villain, but in the end, they are both villains, war-for-profit-lovers, corporate shills, and they lie constantly about what they will do if the win the election, and after the election is over, it is the same old song and dance, whether they came from the democratic or the republican party, in reality, they are all just one party, and the sheep keep legitimizing them by voting for them . . . . we do not need voters, we need revolutionaries. When was the last time you saw a politician from either party that truly did represent the people instead of corporations?

Problem is, everyone thinks that "in the interim" is every election cycle, and it will go on forever that way. When people vote for these two evils, they are assisting the war-for-profit loving politicians who murder with impunity, they have blood on their hands, they are war criminals, and I refuse to add blood on my hands by legitimizing them, by giving them an OK by voting in their favor. These people in Washington will stand up an claim to be not racist, but in fact, they are some of the most racist people on the planet, they will bomb other cultures at the drop of a hat . . . How often do you see them bomb Caucasian people? Almost never, but they are bombing people from other cultures all the time, and, on top of that, they support, unconditionally, the most racist invader on the planet, those who invaded Palestine, bombed the hell out of them, imprison them, shoot them, and that is a "lesser evil" in peoples eyes because the politician they plan on voting for claims s/he will fix it all if they land in the White House, but you already know that they will continue the murder and mayhem when you vote. That is like saying, "I will vote for Ted Bundy, because Charles Manson will kill more people than Ted Bundy will if I vote for him . . . . maybe you, but not me, not for either.

I do what I am able to do . . . . and it is not likely that someone is going to start a revolution the American MacDonald's style way . . . . that is, Americans think that everything can be accomplished overnight, and that is not how the real world works . . . so I do what I can to change what I can, and I do not have unrealistic expectations that it will happen overnight. A revolution does not generally happen because ONE person led it, it happens because enough people get fed up with the system, and use their collective power to change things. Those who take the easy path, are the first to deny that they have a hand in what is being unjustly done, and on top of that, they impede those who would change things, as far as I myself see it, they take on the same racist behavior as those they elect, and have blood on their hands, like those they elect.

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What confounds me is trying to understand the mentality of a Trump supporter. Whenever I talk to them, all I hear are regurgitated sound bites from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. But those sounds bites are very deeply indoctrinated beliefs--I can't find any actual thinking behind them. The most priceless one of the day is, "Look at all he's done for this country." Say what? I'm wasting my time here.

They do not think critically, they do not use logic because they do not even know what logic is, and trying to understand that is futile.

@Bobby9 Bobby, I make a point of clicking into Fox every day or two for maybe 10 minutes...just to keep track of what they're saying. And I keep running across people who tell me very proudly they ONLY listen to Fox for news. And I ask, "Okay, so you think MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, ABC, BBC, HLN, and PBS are all lying?" Typical answer, "Well yes, they're conspiring against Donald Trump."

@Bobby9 It's random. And so seldom that I can't recall the names. On other channels I remember names like Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, etc.

@Bobby9 Yes, you're right. The actual time I spend on "news" is probably 90% on the computer and 10% on TV. I read Huffpost, BBC, Politico, WSJ, and a few more. And I'm guessing that more than half of what I read is financial news.

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