X and Facebook are allowing false claims about how the 2020 election was rigged. Hope that Nevada can get their findings out to help stop all the misinformation that Republicans and social media post.
lmao American democracy was being destroyed the moment Reagan made lobbying a thing. All Trump did was show how fucking broken our system is and how close we can get to being a fascist regime without actually becoming one.
Biden should really be saying “we are destroying American democracy”, because until corporate interests get the fuck out of politics as a whole, American “democracy” will always be a theatre show to convince us we still matter to them.
It is strange to be living through history. A time when the most stable democracy in the world saw an attempted coup by a President who only stepped down when his attempt to stop the transition of power failed. Then he used his grip on a following of poorly educated racists to maintain a stranglehold on a major party to force his return to leadership knowing the party would collapse if he took his following with him. Trump is a villain for the ages.
We have large turnovers constantly. Our system is inherently unstable, even if one side actually tried to build as hard as the other side destroys, we’d just end up constantly building and destroying on a cycle. We’ve been destroying more than we build since the 90s when neoliberals convinced voters if they tried half as hard, they’d maintain power and slowly make progress.
But that hasn’t made us stable, we’ve just been taking two steps back and one forward. A slow march to dystopia
Trump should have been behind bars since the afternoon of Jan 6.
He should have been impeached immediately, and arrested and indicted for inciting an insurrection.
And every Republican in Congress should have been 100 percent on board with that.
But… If we set aside for a moment that they are a party of traitors, that still doesn’t explain why Merrick Garland wasn’t putting the cuffs on Trump the day he was sworn in as the new AG.
IT’S ABSOLUTE MADNESS THAT TRUMP IS ALLOWED TO WALK AROUND FREE. In our entire history, we’ve never come closer to losing our democracy. Including the civil war.
Sarah has not had a single novel idea as Governor. It has been dog whistles and the perpetuation of “owning the libs” that has occupied her time, and bringing in the Department of Education guy (Jacob Olivia) from Florida is a part of it. She should do better.
The US has white supremacy in its very bones, we can paper over it but we’ll see it spring up even hundreds of years later. Note that if you do like the US I don’t think that makes you a white supremacist, clearly people are able to compartmentalize them successfully.
Humanity has bad spots and problems everywhere. Here in the US we throw the expression "greatest country" at the drop of a hat. What is greatness, if not to try to work on our problems as much or better than everyone else is working on theirs?
People that want to wallpaper over our history of mistakes are doing the opposite of making the country great. True greatness is recognizing the problems and working hard to fix them. People like Sanders are the opposite of patriots. She would have us lie about who we are and what we've done, perpetuate our mistakes, and oppose those that want to do the work to actually make us greater.
“We’ve got to get back to the basics of teaching math, of teaching reading, writing and American history,” Sanders said.
This is American history, you dumb racist asshole.
The College Board, who runs the AP program, just needs to yank certification for any state that tries to play this game of cherry picking which courses they “approve” of. You teach them all or you get nothing. Fuck these bigots and their backasswards states.
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