pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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It's important for all to understand that this has been a multi-generational fight for the soul of America. I earlier published that I, among many, tracked it back to the Lewis Powell memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in August of 1971 -a memorandum that everyone should be familiar with at this point. The Powell memo defined the roadmap for a right-wing takeover of the United States. With that as a starting point, the pardoning of Nixon, Reagan's implementation of economics…
I think the Dems didn't do much to reverse those tax breaks and deregulation which led to continuation of nasty market crashes, esp the mortgage subprime thing, a making of the financial establishment at large - such is American capitalism. I'm hoping if 2024 is a big enough disaster for the GOP, the party might finally self-implode into a couple parts, but I' m not enjoying the polls and some of the critiquing still coming out. Dems need more political capital. Biden is making this a hallmark of his campaign, esp women's reproductive rights.