1/The biggest failure of both our politics & media is that most news analysis is kept on the surface, always dealing with symptom & rarely dealing with cause. It's always talking about the house yet rarely addresses the health of its foundation. In fact the foundation is rotting
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The only thing missing from your spot-on three part tweet is a proper ending: vote third party. I have a feeling you will get there eventually. It’s the only logical conclusion.
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No it's not the only logical conclusion, not yet. First we have to defeat Trump, then we can appraise the situation.
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Out of curiosity, who are these people who are waking up?
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The millions of Americans who have been culturally tranquilized to somehow not notice that the pillars of American democracy are being chipped away at, removed right in front of our eyes.
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I sure hope so Marianne goddamn this is tragic.
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Slavery was tragic. Suppression of women was tragic. Genocide of Native Americans was tragic. Jim Crow was tragic. But the question for us, as it was for those before us who responded to those questions, is not whether those things were tragic. The question is, are we brave?
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Absolutely.
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Seeing the rot ... whether it's in us ... our house ... or our government ... is the first big step ... seeing it begins the change ...
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The rot is capitalism Marianne; I think it’s important to name it explicitly.
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Agree, we have to get back to our Constitutional roots. Our Bill of Rights are of upmost importance.


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