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One of the many features of Christmas in the present era: the vehement objections by self-professed Christians to the simple, Bible-sourced fact that Jesus and his parents were refugees; an objection rooted in the strident opposition to non-white migration that defines Trumpism.
Case in point: a bunch of the replies to this @PeteButtigieg post, and the @johnpavlovitz reply, neither of which included exactly controversial Biblical points.
@PeteButtigieg @johnpavlovitz A good read for anyone who's interested. Because no, Mary and Joseph weren't just heading out on a road trip on foot, to casually participate in the Roman Census. They were fleeing a Roman threat to kill the child we celebrate on Christmas. americamagazine.org/faith/2017/12/…
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This piece ran in the Wapo in 2013 as President Obama was in the midst of painstaking negotiations for a nuclear deal with Iran. You simply cannot understate how hard and crucial making that deal was, and the horrendous cost of Trump throwing it away. washingtonpost.com/news/worldview…
The irony is that the blowback from the 1953 U.S. removal of Iran's president included not just the mullahs/revolution but also the Iran-Iraq war. Then the U.S. under GW Bush brings Iran and Iraq together by invading Iraq in 2003. And now Trump lands Iraq, Iran and us here.
Good, patient diplomacy and strong alliances got us to the brink of peace, and in just a few years Trump's impulses have brought us to the egde of war.
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2019 was a weird year: 2 of our kids graduated from college (yay!) and I fulfilled my dream of getting on the NYT Bestseller's list (4 weeks with no help from a political committee!) and my #amjoy fam kept winning. But the things that happened in this country were so disturbing.
It's hard to whoop it up too much, thinking about the migrant kids (even babies) who might never see their parents again; the refugees turned away to face God knows what; the mass shooting victims, the farmers (though they voted for it) going under from trade wars... it's a LOT.
Neo-Nazism is surging. Corruption too. And the American president is having phone têtes-à-tête with Russia that we only find out about FROM Russia while strong-arming foreign nations for dirt to help him stay in power. America is isolated. POTUS? Notorious & laughed at. The AG?
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It feels like what's been missing from the Democratic primary is an affirmative message to match the fear, exhaustion, disgust and dread of Trumpism that so many people feel. Warren and Booker are both trying for that in different ways -- Warren with this "imagine" theme.
It really makes you wonder what the knock down, drag out fight to stop her has been about; to the point where a whole billionaire seems to be running just to stop her (plus an ex MA governor). Which perhaps is about the *other* part of her message...
And no this is not an endorsement (last time I endorsed a candidate was Obama in August 2007 when I was a talk radio host). Just an observation.
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