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Jared Yates Sexton
@JYSexton
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Oct 31, 2020
The choice isnt just between candidates. Its between a society where facts and laws matter and human beings have basic dignity or a purposefully decaying country where fascists keep us imprisoned in conspiracy theories and petty, murderous feuds while plundering everything.
This moment with Trump, these past few years, have been disastrously bad with countless incompetencies and cruelties and unnecessary tragedies.
But its only going to get worse if we dont reject this madness and get to the hard and necessary work beyond Trump.
I keep trying to warn people. Reality is malleable and for Trumpism to continue, whether by victory or plunder, is to dedicate this country to a murderous and self-ruinous alternate reality.
Yes, Trump and his base peddle obvious lies. But this election is about making them real
Make no mistake. This election is the beginning of a bigger fight. Defeating Trump doesnt fix the problems he embodies. But its a choice between fighting the infection and embracing it in totality and allowing it to wash over us.
A win, legitimate or otherwise, is a surrender.
7:36 AM · Oct 31, 2020
cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)This is the animus that allowed Germans to both execute and ignore the deaths of millions; the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda. The war in Kosovo and the Balkans. All within only a generation or two!
You think these people wouldn't murder - genocide - if they could?
Well they have and ARE!
Thank you
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)BComplex
(8,060 posts)group of any kind.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)of racism, white supremacy, nazism, bullying (including domestic abuse).
The police need to know that THEY are not making the rules, and they CAN NOT hide behind a blue wall of prejudice and bigotry.
Then we go on to the military.
It has to be rooted out at all levels of EVERY institution. We should be ashamed to have racists, bullies, nazis and white supremacist fighting and defending the foundations of our democracy.
We can NEVER adhere to the jingo-isms of:
My country, right or wrong. NO, wrong is NEVER right.
Better red than democrat. If so, you are a COMMUNIST.
Love it or leave it. NO, you love it and FIX it.
BComplex
(8,060 posts)cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)"A win, legimitate or otherwise, is a surrender."
Is this talking about a drumpf win? Guess so...