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ck4829

(35,077 posts)
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 11:51 AM Oct 2018

We need to address the fact that "divisiveness" is a lot more than Russian trolling

We need to have institutions that reflect, represent, and serve ALL; regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, income, etc. When you close down or sell off institutions that suddenly serve a few, when you privatize, what do you think is going to happen? When you have a government that is a government for and of the few, what do you think is going to happen?

More and more, they're no longer OUR parks, no longer OUR schools, no longer OUR libraries, no longer OUR government. Russians didn't do this.

We need things we can all be invested in, simply by being here.

A human's life also needs to have a separate value that no object can even be equal of. No amount of confederate statues will ever be equal to Heather Heyer's life and works. No amount of money will ever be equal to access to quality healthcare. If you want to create division, then go ahead and tell some people that their very lives are not worth some objects.

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