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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Thank you so much, Dr. Richardson for providing the proper context to the “shocking” poll showing the 53% of Republicans believe Trump is President. The media, even the “liberal” media like MSNBC endlessly publicizes the raw number to scare the audience. I can’t think of another reason. But it’s 53% of 26%. Thanks for confirming what I thought to be the case.
I couldn’t disagree more. It is shocking. It’s shocking because 1 in 7 adult Americans believe a pure and utter fantasy. It’s shocking because I’m sure that number is solidifying as people are being fed hope by widening election reviews - Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin. ..
It’s shocking because if emboldens the Republican Party to believe that they are on the right track in their continuing obeisance to a lunatic.
It’s shocking because it promotes the disease of lying outrageously without fear of consequence. Morality is decaying at least at the edges in America.
It’s shocking because that small group is perpetrating acts of violence against Asians because Trump vilified them repeatedly. Now that that genie is out of the bottle, American Jews are becoming targets of random, violent attacks. Who can know the motivation. Maybe the recent conflict. Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ratshit comparison of mask mandates to the Holocaust stirs up an old irrational anger.
It’s shocking because other Republicans who don’t believe the election was stolen, do not appear to be speaking up against it.
This is a moment when those with primally inhuman, nihilistic instincts feel that it’s time to see *how far they can go* (emphasis) in giving vent to evil. So a Lukashenko simply outwaits protesters and then when they have been worn down, pulls off a shocking attack on a commercial plane. A Samoan leader, ousted in an election, simply locks Parliament. Can I get away with this, he thinks.
That beast is loose among you. There have been no consequences for 1/6. Arrests yes, but no significant convictions and penalties. No commission with authority to subpoena witnesses. If this holds the foundations will shudder.
We must endure this time of waiting. The fundamental question of the survival of American democracy at this moment rests on the indictment, trial, conviction and sentencing of Trump. I pray that that they are using this time to make an airtight case against, as opposed to temporizing and trying to make a case that will sell to the other whatever% as to why they just can’t bring him to justice.
Hitler took power with only 36% of the vote in 1932. He was a legitimate (sort of) candidate. Here we have 14% who think on *zero evidence* that Trump was cheated out of victory. What number will that rise to when the Arizona audit “proves” that he was cheated there? When a Georgia audit does? We know that other states will jump into the queue with their own audits, as they have with enacting Draconian and breathtakingly stupid new legislation to restrict the vote.
*This* is the consequential moment. The 2022 election will either confirm the Republican grab for power or they will be routed.
No offense intended, but if you’re reassured that really it’s only 14% and the media shouldn’t be scaring us with numbers like 53%, I think you’re hiding behind the thinnest of fig leaves.
I’m shocked.