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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe were right about all of it - D. Earl Stephens
Yes, we sure as hell were. And long before election night, 2024.
ON BEING CIVIL TO INCIVILITY: Author D. Earl Stephens pulls no punches in this must read op-ed.
Truth, whole truth... nothing but. And the truth shall SET US FREE.
We were right about all of it - opinion by D. Earl Stephens - Alternet via MSN
Today is the saddest most depressing day in America since Nov. 5, 2024, when anybody with a brain in their head or a heart in their chest knew what was most assuredly coming.
Somehow that didnt include myriad universities, corporations, media outlets, and even members of the opposition party, who surrendered to this murdering fascist regime almost before it got going, thus greasing the skids for this homegrown national emergency.
I hold them in contempt, and will do everything possible to make sure these cowardice sellouts pay for their betrayal.
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Our government let me type that again OUR GOVERNMENT has been infiltrated by billionaires and well-paid racists to pull OUR money away from funding good and necessary things like healthcare, daycare, and clean air and water, to pay for murder in our streets, and control over US.
Somehow that didnt include myriad universities, corporations, media outlets, and even members of the opposition party, who surrendered to this murdering fascist regime almost before it got going, thus greasing the skids for this homegrown national emergency.
I hold them in contempt, and will do everything possible to make sure these cowardice sellouts pay for their betrayal.
....
Our government let me type that again OUR GOVERNMENT has been infiltrated by billionaires and well-paid racists to pull OUR money away from funding good and necessary things like healthcare, daycare, and clean air and water, to pay for murder in our streets, and control over US.
All I can post, but isn't even the best of it. So feel free to read the rest.
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We were right about all of it - D. Earl Stephens (Original Post)
B.See
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yellow dahlia
(5,014 posts)1. Some of us were sounding the alarm. It is worse than I imagined.
RockCreek
(1,410 posts)2. Excellent Artcle. Must read.
struggle4progress
(125,497 posts)3. Fife and Drum Music of the Revolutionary War