If and when we emerge from these dark days for our country, we must

[KlatooBNikto]

remember two things:

1.How easily it was possible for determined liars to mount a coupd'etat and seize power from the legitimately elected person.

2. How easy it was for that clique to manufacture an external threat to consolidate their power at home and stage unprovoked aggression against weak countries abroad.

If we remember these lessons we will not be patsies any more.One benefit of these dark days is that we no longer see the smiling faces of American Democracy everywhere.They have been replaced by the grim faces of thugs who kill without remorse and torture prisoners at will.
The world no longer believes in our altruistic images of ourselves and so, like Frank Zappa said, that will be dropped.We are now the tough guys who will do whatever is necessary to maintain our power.

[acmejack]

1. Well said!

And regrettably, all too true...

[Beam Me Up]

2. The great divide.

You say "we", I say "they". They are now the tough guys who will do whatever is necessary to maintain their power.'

* Said, "You are either with US or you are against us," and I knew which side of that line I was on. THEY are NOT my elected leaders. They are usurpers, revolutionaries, hijackers, a ruthless cabal backed by the oil/military hegemony of a powerful oligarchy that has no use for democratic principles, which maintains the illusions of a Republic only because it pacifies the people and makes them compliant to their own fleecing.

I know where I stand in relation to them.

[AngryAmish]

3. In order to emerge, we must crush them all.

They must never be given the opportunity again to cause trouble.