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Sharon Foster (CT)'s avatar

I've been reading The 1619 Project. Until we face up to our history, this will never be resolved peacefully. There will always be people who see life as a zero-sum game, where more rights for "them" means less rights for "us". And to top it off, many of them believe in the heresy of a white supremacist Jesus who is on their side.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Excellent point. Not being brave enough to root down into the dirt means we will never move forward.

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Bill Yousman's avatar

Trump has never made a truth in his life. He has made a mess. He has made violence happen. He has made people go broke. He has made women sue him for sexual assault. He has made hardcore racism mainstream. He has made me age 20 years since 2015. That is all he has made.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

But this horse shit was always here. I just got to ignore them, I think. I'm not proud of that.

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Joan Sheehan's avatar

What is actually threatening to our country is this way of thinking. I worry about the connections I see to Gilead in the Handmaids Tale coming true.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

And when we all read it in the way-back times, we thought it was fiction. Or I did.

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Joan Sheehan's avatar

It had some links to our country but we hoped it was based on actions in less advanced countries. Sigh.

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Ava's avatar

The percentage of those thinking/fearing there may well be a massive fracture or, indeed, civil war may not be limited to the loons.

If the US becomes essentially a religious dictatorship copying the tactics of Nazi Germany, what might the alternatives be? Might the blue states consider banding together and withdrawing to preserve life and liberty?

The gun statistics are, at least on the surface, also skewed. A large number are concentrated in the hands of a few. New gun purchases are starting to tilt toward those the loons want to eliminate or subjugate. Are we seeing a quiet shift toward the same circumstances that have led to the endless conflicts in the mid-east, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia?

The GOP has been working doggedly on taking over the levers of power for decades - and they're close. No, I don't mean national elections: they're approaching control of the number of states required to force a constitutional convention, allowing them to completely rewrite the Constitution. Then what?

This may have moved much farther away from armchair quarterbacking that we might think - or want to think.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I tuck myself in at night -- and did throughout the Trump years -- thinking "People are reasonable and they'll come to their senses." I still tuck myself in that way, because on some silly level, I believe it. If we don't come together, we will forever live on the insides of the former president, a contentious, love-to-play-victim place I despise.

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Thomas Dombroski's avatar

The not so great replacement theory is something that has been around for a while

Back in the 70s and 80s goofballs were crying about how whites were the minority

One of the goofballs that I used to work with was regurgitating liar Tucks talking points until I pointed out that in the last 20 years I have been working 2 or 3 jobs

Many have been major corporations

Whenever someone gets laid off or fired or quits or retires the bosses will come up to the people still working and say can you guys pick up the slack

We’re trying to replace the person that just left but we’re having a hard time finding the right person

This has happened not just for me but also for the goofballs that claim they are being replaced

In the end they usually just mutter that they just believe what they believe

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Candace Low's avatar

I just became a grandmother.this is not the world I wish for her or anyone. It is hard to wrap my mind around the thinking of some of our leaders. How do we address such closed mindedness?

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I wish I knew. I can say, from experience, that screaming at them isn't working.

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Candace Low's avatar

I agree about the screaming...trying to educate them isn't working either and let's not even go to thoughts and prayers...we are ccx way past that.

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

Before the First World War started, hearty pundits of a number of European countries looked forward to it as a character-building experience for young men.

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

Reposted unscrambled.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Substack would do well to add an edit function here.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I think about that. It’s not an option. It simply isn’t.

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