William Lindsey :toad:
Mark Mansour's analysis of the watershed moment in which the US now finds itself seems exactly right to me.
As he notes, the US has faced watershed moments in the past — the crisis over slavery and Civil War, the Depression, two world wars. And now:
"Today, we face something unique:" (continued in /2)
William Lindsey :toad:
"The sobering fact is that nearly half this country is willing to dispose of democracy in order to win. They view it as a matter of survival. Well, so do we. It is not Democrats who are attempting to manage the lives of Democrats. It is the Republicans who are determined to force the rest of us to live under their warped screed."
William Lindsey :toad:
It's very much worth repeating here: PRRI has just found that four in ten Americans — notably Republicans, evangelicals, and weekly churchgoers — score high on sociological measures used ot measure authoritarian tendencies.
Some 40% of us actively want the fascist-leaning "solution" the Republican party now wants for us. Though it's a solution only to manufactured problems the GOP itself is making up….
William Lindsey :toad:
"a malevolent movement led by a mentally ill, criminal despot who would turn the nation into his own plaything, using the unlimited power granted him by a corrupt Supreme Court to imprison his adversaries, accuse as traitors those who defy him and prepared to turn a 900-page hate screed into a user’s manual to dismantle rights, deport immigrants and turn the nation into a dictatorship subject to the whims of one man."
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