In a divided country how do we do a hard reset and get things done, empowering people and minimizing mis/disinformation?

@Museek

I've lain awake lots of nights wondering about this myself.

It unfortunately boils down to "How do we deprogram at least a third of the population?"

There's an awful lot of people who are so fact-resistant that they're taking all of us down with them at this point. ☹️

@Tarnagh

Perhaps we can learn from what happened to Germany, take us back to 2026 and be transparent about what happened?

@Museek

Maybe.

The German people post-WWII were *ashamed.* They went to great lengths to make sure everyone understood the history of what had been done in the name of "nationalism."

The people here and now are not ashamed in the least and they're working very hard to suppress real history. Along with everything else they're doing.

@Tarnagh @Museek I think it’s a multi channel assault on reality.

Dark Money needs to be removed from politics (eliminating super pacs)
We need actual journalism, not infotainment
We need term limits
We need cult deprogramming
We need social media to be serious about separating the fact from fiction

@JGNWYRK @Tarnagh @Museek we need to highlight things like the fact the Dem party leadership helping to kill Senator warrens stock bill that would have made it illegal for legislators to own individual stocks.
Lots of work to undo 40 years of the infiltration of big money’s grip on our legislators

@EelGM @JGNWYRK @Tarnagh no doubt. Corporate personhood is another thing that should be undone imho

@Museek @JGNWYRK @Tarnagh if corporations are people 🤔 why isn’t a single corporation serving time in prison 🤷‍♂️

@EelGM @Museek @JGNWYRK

Since day one of Citizens United I've been saying "I'll believe corporations are people when I see one get the death penalty."

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@Tarnagh @EelGM @Museek politics like so many criminal enterprises can be unraveled in my opinion with the same methodology.

“Follow the money”.

@JGNWYRK @EelGM @Museek

For sure. "Cui prodest?" Useful Latin phrase, that.

"Who benefits?"

@Tarnagh @JGNWYRK @EelGM

True…

While we’re talking about Latin, have any of you had it?

I’m curious about some meanings of things.

@Museek @JGNWYRK @EelGM

I never took Latin but I've picked up some phrases over the course of my life.

@Museek @Tarnagh @JGNWYRK nope just a few phrases from long study of ancient military history and being well read

Inter arma enim silent leges

Is one of my favorite phrases made popular by Star Trek

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