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1/The ugliest fact to emerge from this shutdown is that America doesn’t pay its full time Federal workers a living wage- exposing an ugly reality that neither Congressional party seems particularly surprised by-especially a GOP now owned by dark money donors/oligarchs.
2/Here is a 6 minute video about the grotesque state of American wealth/income inequality with user friendly graphics that put this crisis in stark relief. Please take a moment to watch and retweet.
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3/Thankfully, there is one candidate running in 2020 who is offering a real world solution to the crisis that threatens to destroy our very democracy - Elizabeth Warren. Let’s not allow the corporate msm to ignore her message.
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1/This is a must read article comparing the rise of Hitler in 1930s Weimar Germany to the take over of our Constitutional Republic by the Trump/GOP. Absolutely chilling. And much worse now because today’s fascists are armed with nuclear weapons. Here are some excerpts:👇👇👇👇
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3/When an ever-shrinking base of support for traditional conservatism made it impossible to carry out the authoritarian revision of the constitution, Hindenburg and the old right ultimately pinned their hopes on Hitler and installed him as chancellor (sound familiar?!)
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Our Founding Fathers had a fierce debate on how best to safeguard our nation from a tyrannical executive. It is this underlying debate that must inform our understanding of what is meant by the phrase ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’.
po.st/tumZWF via @SmithsonianMag
The Founding Fathers wished to protect us from a president who
1/obtains his office through nefarious means;
2/misuses his power to circumvent checks on his criminality;
3/betrays the public trust thru ‘maladministration’ of the govt; and
4/otherwise violates the Constitution
On Sept 8, 1787, Mason asked his fellow delegates a question of historic importance. Why, Mason asked, were treason and bribery the only grounds in the draft Constitution for impeaching the president? Treason, he warned, wouldn’t include “attempts to subvert the Constitution.”
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Mosh
@joeyandmosh
“Fascism doesn’t come with a bang. It’s not a revolution. It moves like water, slowly eroding values,freedoms & ideals. It distorts perceptions & tells you we’ve never been better while it rounds up people, takes away their kids & rigs elections. . . . “@Julesitter
Here’s an expansion of the Fascism checklist-as you can see, our government is rapidly meeting all the criteria of a fascist state. Please feel free to annotate this list with examples from the GOP/Trump fascist state,a regime bent on destroying the last vestiges of our democracy
Promote Nationalistic Fervor
Fascist states use patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, and other paraphernalia to stir up nationalist fervor and denigrate those who oppose displays of false patriotism.Loyalty oaths to the flag become a litmus test, critics who refuse are shunned.
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Seeing how this happened 19 prior times since 1976, stands to reason yes?
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