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What do you stand for now? (Original Post) FrodosNewPet Jan 2017 OP
We hold these truths to be self-evident: lambchopp59 Jan 2017 #1
And there it is... 2naSalit Jan 2017 #2

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
1. We hold these truths to be self-evident:
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 09:46 AM
Jan 2017

that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I believe President Obama has been truer to the above words than any other president in my lifetime.

And now: Our new despot doesn't care about election rigging that he won.
From the same Declaration of Independence that started this nation:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

2.8 million voices were silenced in 2016 by gerrymandered electoral college.
and... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-election-really-was-rigged/2016/11/29/c2ed58d8-b666-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html?utm_term=.60ea7863995a

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)
2. And there it is...
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 01:36 AM
Jan 2017


But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.


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