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If by a Liberal they mean someone who looks ahead not behind,someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions,.Then I am a Liberal, John F. Kennedy 1960

Sep 17, 2020, 25 tweets

1/ Did the Destruction of America Begin with Ronald ReaganPer bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann >>Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies are letting America die ...

2/ ...The billionaires whoMake theirMoney fromFossil fuelsHave bought off Trump and Republicans so that they are denying climate change while a dozen states in the west burn and the Gulf Coast is repeatedly ravaged by hurricanes Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann...

3/ ... Firefighters in California and Oregon are identifying the remains of homes where people died by the smell of burnt human flesh >>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>>...

4/ ...The billionaires who make their money screwing American students with almost $2 trillion in student loans bribed politicians in 2005 to make it illegal to declare bankruptcy on those loans >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

5/ ... Across America >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> students are experiencing depression >> despair >> and suicide >>...

6/ ...billionairesWho own millions ofRental propertiesAcrossThe countryRactively ignoring both legalRequirements and moral-morality based requests >Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> dependingState2prevent evictions&Rtoday throwingPeople out homesMiddlePandemic...

7/ ... >> The billionaires who own Fox news and some of our largest radio networks are facilitating lies about climate change and the coronavirus >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> both of which are killing people >>...

8/ ... while these billionaires live in their protected bubbles >> >>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> They are also stoking racial violence by repeatedly portraying protesters calling for Black equality under the law as terrorists >> ...

9/ ... >>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> Massive tax cuts by Reagan >> Bush and Trump have transferred fully $50 trillion from the homes and pockets of working people into the money bins and foreign bank accounts of the billionaire class since 1980 >>...

10/ ... As a result >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> fewer than half of Americans are still in the middle class >> and fear and rage increasingly dominate the American political landscape >>...

11/ ... Using that despair and anger people are feeling as they watch their lives be wiped out >> their homes destroyed >> and their jobs vanish >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

12/ ... Trump and the Republican party are fomenting violence and political instability by trying to scapegoat Black and Brown people >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

13/ ... The growing Qanon movement on the right further asserts that "international Jewish bankers" like George Soros are behind at all >> stoking anti-Semitism along with their garden-variety racism >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

14/ ...This all began in the 1980s with the so-called Reagan Revolution >Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>...

15/ ...when Reagan dropped the top tax rate from 74% to 25% and begin a vicious >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> scorched-earth campaign to destroy unions across the country while authoring NAFTA and other free trade agreements >>...

16/ ... Reagan even championed the destruction of our public schools and the modern day Republican rejection of science on everything from the origin of the earth to climate change >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

17/ ... He[Reagan] even empowered people like "Christian" billionaire Pat Roberts who argued that the earth is only 6000 years old and >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

18/ ... at the peak of the AIDS crisis that Reagan refused to acknowledge >> said the biggest crisis facing America was homosexuality >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

19/ ... If America is to recover from this hellscape that rightwing billionaires and their bought-off politicians have inflicted on us >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

20/ ... it's going to require a massive >> nationwide awakening and a nonstop multi-year effort >> >>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

21/ ... Reaganism needs to be ripped out by the root >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> ...

22/ ... His[Reagan] policies of minimizing science >>>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>> privatizing our public schools >> defunding social security and social welfare programs >> ending support for infrastructure repair and construction >>...

23/ ... wiping out union protections for working people >> and of transferring America's wealth to the billionaire class must be reversed >>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann>>...

24/ ... Until Reaganism is utterly destroyed >> the crises engulfing America will simply get worse and worse>>Per bit.ly/2H5k6rP by @Thom_Hartmann

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