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Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett
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We can either have civility or civil rights.

We can no longer have both.
No one was ever GIVEN civil rights because they asked politely. You have to fight for them.
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground...Power concedes NOTHING without demand.

It never did. It never will."

- Frederick Douglass, 1857
MEMORIZE THIS PHRASE:

“If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance along with it.”
- Karl Popper, 1945
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99.9% of Americans earn less than $10 million a year.

Taxing 0.1% of the population 70% on every dollar AFTER their first ten million would NOT harm the economy.

What other countries spend on health care & infrastructure, we spend on low taxes for the super wealthy.
This type of spending is GOOD for the economy since accumulated wealth doesn't circulate while the economic benefit of improved infrastructure, education and health care is MASSIVELY beneficial to productivity (not to mention quality of life for 320 million people).
I'm seeing this argument in conservative circles that taxing the rich is "unethical."

What utter horseshit.

What's unethical is letting people die in the street from inadequate health care just so some banker can afford a second yacht.
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Right now in America people are donating money they don’t have to build a wall they don’t need to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
The GoFundMe for the Wall has raised about $3 million in 3 days.

At this rate, the Wall will be fully-funded by...2086.

Racists are bad at math.
My favorite part of all this,

Cost of border Wall:
$25,000,000,000.00

Cost of anti-border Wall device:
$15.97
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FOX NEWS: Flynn's offenses were no worse than jaywalking.

JUDGE SULLIVAN (TO MICHAEL FLYNN, IN COURT): This crime is very serious. You can't minimize that. You sold your country out.

🔥🔥🔥
FOX NEWS: What Flynn did is like getting a parking ticket.

JUDGE SULLIVAN (to Michael Flynn, in court): You were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the National Security Adviser to the president!

This undermines everything this flag stands for!
Speaking of Fox News, @JudgeJeanine recently called Judge Sullivan, “A jurist unafraid of the swamp, a judge who has a track record of calling out prosecutorial misconduct, a man who does not tolerate injustice or abuse of power."

For once, I agree.
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#Civility, in the age of Trump, looks like a stolen Supreme Court nomination.
Civility is putting your hands up and getting shot.
Civility is being nice to people who created internment camps for children.
Civility is useless in the face of hate and fascism.
Civility, in the context of today’s finger-wagging by Dem leaders, is thinking that taking the moral high ground is some kind of victory.
IT’S NOT.
Fascists use your morals and guilt to lull you into ineffective action or inaction.
Dem leaders are begging for civility because they want to stay in power as much as the GOP. They don’t want anyone to rock the boat, and they’re too blind to see that it’s already sinking.
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I'm reminded of the famous passage from Frederick Douglass' 1857 speech on "West India Emancipation:"

"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle."
"The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing."
" If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
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What kind of world do you want to live in?

Better,

What kind of country do you want to be a citizen of?

These are important questions, serious ones, and they are the real questions on the ballot come November 6th.

Every American needs to consider them.

1/
Do you want your country committed to justice for all and a consistent and universally applied rule of law?

If so, you cannot support a single Republican candidate.

Not one.

Not a single one.

2/
If you want to live in a nation that is able to compete in the global marketplace and believe that the only way to achieve that is by giving all of our children a world class education then you cannot vote for a single Republican.

Not one.

Not a single one.

3/
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