Reminder that before 1/6/21 at the national Capitol was 4/30/20 in Michigan.
This is a pattern, directly abetted by an anti-democracy authoritarian white supremacist Republican Party. They aren't done trying. If Republicans aren't stopped, they'll eventually succeed.
This is a pattern, directly abetted by an anti-democracy authoritarian white supremacist Republican Party. They aren't done trying. If Republicans aren't stopped, they'll eventually succeed.
https://twitter.com/SenPolehanki/status/1255899318210314241
As a society, we desperately need to stop treating as extremist statements expressing the extremity of our danger.
We need to start treating the actual extreme danger as extremist, and take proper action to counter it.
We have a major party politically committed to downfall.
We need to start treating the actual extreme danger as extremist, and take proper action to counter it.
We have a major party politically committed to downfall.
Downfall of representative government. Downfall of democracy. Downfall of the public commons on every level: schooling, parks, public health, housing, safety, environment. Downfall of science. Of knowable fact.
They'll get downfall, if they're allowed.
They'll get downfall, if they're allowed.
They want a world where the only law is wealth and a firm hand, the only truth their tales of their own blamelessness. They're perfectly happy to kill to get it. And they're telling us so every day.
It's terrifying, but our refusal to accept it is perhaps even more terrifying.
It's terrifying, but our refusal to accept it is perhaps even more terrifying.
Let's face it clearly: there are people dedicated to extending and exacerbating a deadly pandemic. There are people interested in capturing our government with mobs and guns to overturn elections and bring down government.
And the Republican Party is firmly—firmly—on their side.
And the Republican Party is firmly—firmly—on their side.
Let's face it clearly: there are people dedicated to packing our courts w/religious fundamentalists and libertarian extremists, in order to dismantle the legal framework undergirding our imperfect but vital multicultural democracy.
The Republican Party is firmly on their side.
The Republican Party is firmly on their side.
Let's face it clearly: 160 years ago insurrectionists fomented a bloody war against the US in order to preserve and expand chattel slavery, and there still exists a faction who sees that war as just, and still attempts to fight it.
The Republican Party is firmly on their side.
The Republican Party is firmly on their side.
Let's face it clearly: we are on the edge of climate catastrophe, and there are factions who would keep us on that course, either b/c they profit from the course, or they feel they would profit from catastrophic downfall of society.
The Republican Party is firmly on their side.
The Republican Party is firmly on their side.
This is all observable, and it's an incomplete list. It's alarming, but it's not alarmist. These are alarming truths. It's appropriate to be alarmed.
We have a major party politically dedicated to downfall. They'll get it, if they're permitted.
They oughtn't be permitted.
We have a major party politically dedicated to downfall. They'll get it, if they're permitted.
They oughtn't be permitted.
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