America’s two-party system - consisting of these two specific parties as they have regressed - sucks. Each party is beholden to moneyed interests and each delivers a type of chaos. 1/15
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America glimpsed greatness in 1954 when Brown v Board of Education killed farce of “separate but equal”; in 1973 women when gained > control over their bodies/their lives w/ Roe v Wade; & indigenous peoples were understood to have been screwed. 5/15
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America began to achieve greatness when: in Vietnam we stopped military-industrial complex w/our free press & free speech; laws against pollution stopped rivers fr burning & orange skies over cities once more turned blue and breathable. 6/15
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America’s 2-party system is haunted by slavery. The South was “solid” for the Democratic Party from end of the Civil War until 1960s because the GOP was identified with Reconstruction. 7/15
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America’s road to greatness was impeded w/GOP’s “Southern Strategy” whereby GOP pandered 2 elements of white racism 2 capture the electors’ votes and Congressional seats previously (virtually) conceded to the Dems. 8/15
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America’s 2 major political parties had liberal & conservative wings until LBJ signed Civil Rights & Voting Rights acts. LBJ’s prediction that the Democrats had lost the South for a generation was an understatement. 9/15
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