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In reply to the discussion: A serious question: Can America recover from this disastrous Trump regime? [View all]Moostache
(10,741 posts)There is no compromise with the current GOP that I can abide. There is also no compromise that they will accept because their belief (reinforced by Fox News and Trump's fire hose of dishonesty and bullshit) is that their team is 'winning'. They are innured in propaganda and incapable of recognizing just how badly they are being fucked in the process.
I do NOT accept persecution of 'the other' (immigrant, racial differences, LGBTQ, or any other class)
I do NOT accept I.C.E. or border security as the primary function of the state.
I do NOT accept that working people should be fearing the ability to acquire basic human dignity (shelter, water, food, health care)
I do NOT accept that women do not own or control their own bodies.
I do NOT accept that billionaires should exist, let alone be financially favored over the working poor.
I do NOT accept that tax cuts to create and maintain billionaires should supercede healthcare for millions.
I do NOT accept that any man is above the law, that presidents are omnipotent or that Stephen Miller is a human being.
I BELIEVE that all freedom springs from mutally assured respect.
I BELIEVE that science is real and religion (in the wrong hands) is vile.
I BELIEVE that humans (Homo Sapiens) are all the same and that race is a political concept, not a biological trait.
I BELEVE that humn rights are what makes for a foundation to have a society larger than a few dozen relatives, without the recognition of these rights, life is reduced to a war for resources instead of a path to greater achievement.
I BELIEVE that America is an ideal first and a country second and that we are currently failing them BOTH.
I BELIEVE that the press and speech must remain free and maintaining that freedom requires it to be non-profit and protected.
I BELIEVE that knowledge is a human right and that college expenses are a social responsibility to the future.
I BELIEVE that speech is speech and money is money and the use of either in the pursuit of the other is EVIL.
I BELIEVE that wealth distruibution is currently disgusting and that billionaires who employee people on federal assistance should be taxed out of existence and that their horded wealth should be redistributed to those who make the enterprise function!
There is no way to make peace with the people that passed the GOP's latest monstrosity of a debt bomb or to break bread as fellows with those who are establishing Aligator Auschwitz on American soil. The only way this gets fixed is by a bloody war or a complete partitioning of the union into 2 states. I will end up in the state that includes California, Illinois, New York and is allied with Canada, Mexico, the EU, Japan and the rest of the free world.
That other part of the territory (the partitioned portion that rejects literally everything above) - which should just be named the Neo-Confederate States now - can all go pound sand and die for all I care, but I do not see a pathway to re-integrating them for their current attitudes, forgiveness of crime and cruelty for sport. Those are not fellow citizens, they are card-carrying, badge-wearing Nazis and if my grandfathers and great uncles all fought (and lost friends and relatives) the FIRST NAZI crisis, I cannot stand by and refuse to fight its second coming.
The real issue is going to be reforming the Constitution and the branches of government to restore the American experiment to a functioning baseline and not a kleptocracy with fascist leanings. (Oh, and we will also need to lead the effort to destroy all nuclear weapons forever - IF we win. If we lose, there will be civilian areas destroyed by these weapons, I am 99% sure of that now.)
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