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Sarah McBride (D-DE-elect) is a much better, more decent person than Nancy Mace or the other naysayers

I was today years old when someone pointed out that the banana is no longer the food that most closely resembles the telephone. You know what is? The Pop-Tart!

There are five key areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert and author Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense and intelligence.
And in each of these arenas, the goal is to consolidate power, create chaos — and yes, even death. Authoritarians with power over these areas, Snyder says, “can make America impossible to sustain.” nj.com/politics/2024/11/is-tru

This is what we live with. This is why the voters want anti-establishment/outsider candidates. This is why the Dems, perceived/labeled as insider elites lost, in spite of all the good that the Biden administration achieved. Now, the GOP somehow operating simultaneously as flunkies of the oligarchs yet positioning themselves as outsiders is a psy-op that would have made any KGB or CIA spook jealous.

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Jon Stewart and Heather Cox Richardson on how to keep the Democratic Party from learning all the wrong lessons from this election youtube.com/watch?v=D7cKOaBdFW

Talking about how class and struggle inform identity, every bit as much as gender, race and religion

Jon Stewart and Sarah Smarsh, on how the Democratic Party has lost/surrendered the working class to the GOP. youtube.com/watch?v=UC-VkbEpac

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The Wilmington Coup and Massacre serves as a chilling example of how racial hatred and violence can undermine democracy and erode the fundamental rights of citizens. It is a reminder of the importance of vigilance in protecting those rights and of the ongoing struggle for racial justice.

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The Wilmington Coup was not just about seizing political power; it was a deliberate attempt to strip Black citizens of their hard-won rights and to reassert white supremacy. The event had long-lasting consequences, ushering in an era of Jim Crow segregation and disenfranchisement that would last for decades.

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