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Ellie Kona's avatar

In the midst of ongoing doomsday naysaying, leave it to Robert to lay out a reasonable set of facts as to how the Republicans have lots of troubles ahead. Hold this in mind as you spend a worthwhile 51 minutes to get your socks blown off by Leigh McGowan:

https://twitter.com/IAmPoliticsGirl/status/1483590198130720770?s=20

...whose powerful punch is riffing on Anne Applebaum's article on Autocracy Inc.:

https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1460215744743067648?s=20

Now you have additional sources asking Robert's concluding question: "If you don’t belong to an organized group like Swing Left, Indivisible, Sister District, PostCardsToVoters, Fair Fight, or your local Democratic Party, now is a great time to join. What are you waiting for?"

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JennSH from NC's avatar

The people labeled Republicans today have gone by other labels in the past. Let’s just use “haves” to describe that party’s current members. The haves have been lying for decades. Back in the ‘80’s, I used to wonder why no one saw through Reagan’s play acting lies. “Voodoo economics” anyone? If nothing else, the R-haves party knows how to stick together to speak with one lying voice. Painting themselves as the virtuous family values party who passes little or no legislation to help regular families has been quite successful.

I have also come to realize what an act of courage it is to go against your tribe or group when the group is wrong. The person’s community exacts often swift and terrible retribution for speaking the truth. That’s one reason there are whistleblower laws.

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