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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2/ If your democracy is under attack, your house is rotting. If your economy is unjust, your house is rotting. If your food and environmental policies literally cause people to be ill, your house is rotting. If your citizens are duped into not seeing this, your house is rotting.
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3/ But every problem comes bearing its own solution. It's in the midst of how bad all this is that the miracle is born. People are waking up. People are seeing the rot. People are asking themselves, "Why are we putting up with this?" And from that the necessary changes will come.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I sure hope so Marianne goddamn this is tragic.
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Replying to @belightbella
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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So were those. They were up to it. Now it's our turn.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @belightbella
We’re gonna need a bigger boat, if you catch my drift.
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