1/ Fair or not, our center of political gravity is defined by the party or coalition on offense. I think I speak for many Democrats in saying we're fed up playing defense. Since 2017, we've outperformed the GOP at the ballot box, yet our democracy (Cont) #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
2/ is being dismantled for millions in Red States. As a New Yorker, I can tell you Blue States are not safe either. Whining about "both sides" media bullshit or their corruption is not gonna save us. Unless a modern Fairness Doctrine is enacted, that's not gonna change. (Cont)
3/ Indeed, it's bitterly ironic that on a weekend, we honor those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom, autonomy of women over their own bodies or a POC's right to even vote is under assault. And "only" 78 years after black Americans that defended us against Hitler (Cont)
4/ returned to a segregated America. It's easy to just blame Democrats hand wringing or tactical rope a dopes, for our not being on offense. And to be sure, I nodded my head in agreement of criticism during the current fiscal default assinity. I also concede that on (Cont)
5/ tactics I've underestimated Joe Biden more than once. I suspect Biden on substance will achieve a tactical victory against a weak Speaker when the dust clears. But strategically, our center of political gravity is still being defined by homicidal assclowns. Biden is a (Cont)
6/ good man who views the bully pulpit as something not to be abused or over exposed. He's a traditional POTUS as his adversaries wage guerilla war and @SpeakerMcCarthy is merely their puppet. There are good DC Dems who get what's going but the real resistance leaders are (Cont)
7/ local such as the Tennessee Three, younger activists and each of us. It's up to us to redefine the center of political gravity ourselves by engaging with apathetic friends, family, and neighbors. Good news is WE ARE THE REAL MAJORITY. We just need to wake it up and we (Cont)
8/ don't need a titular iconic leader or TV talking head to get it done. Foundation of any thriving democracy is regular people like us seizing the moment. Barack Obama himself has often preached this ethos. And if we do our part with marches, protests or simply engaging (Cont)
9/ other regular people like us a critical mass is achievable. And Joe Biden will be able to finish the fine job he started.
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1/4🧵The Trump family's linkage w/an Iranian Revolutionary Guard via an oligarch is old news. I was employed with a corp due diligence firm in NYC at the time and a case we were working overlapped with Trump's scheme.
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2/4 Bottom line is Trump has financial entanglements with despotic regimes in Russia and Iran. Iran has provided Russia with military parts and logistical support against Ukraine.
3/4 Russia passed on the intel to Iran and they shared it with their Hamas and Hezbollah proxies. Meanwhile, Netanyahu was paying money to Hamas to avoid a two state solution with the Palestinians.
Yes, folks all countries and societies absolutely have "enemies within."
🧵Content below is my opinion and is my last essay thread before 11/5 as I am strategically prioritizing real activism.
1/ I plea with my fellow citizens to not let their kids become like Germany's "Silent Generation."
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2/ Silent Generation was born between 1928-1945.
In America, for many GenXers like me, these were our parents who were young children during the Great Depression and WWII. They were too young to be the "Greatest Generation" nor were they the attention seeking Baby Boomers.
3/ Silent Generation Americans fought in Korea. They didn't return home to parades like the Greatest Generation WWII vets nor was there rampant social strife as occurred with Boomers during Vietnam.
In Germany, Silent Generation counterparts had a very different experience.
2/ Truth is I needed a spiritual break from politics. I hadn't attended synagogue in weeks. My Financial Crimes Compliance job has been intense and I've prioritized activism over Shabbat.
But even activists with Vulcan avatars posting on toxic social media platforms are human.
3/ The one year anniversary of 10/7 is coming. It's also the season of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
It is a season of both aspirational renewal as we celebrate a new year as well as self-reflection and atonement about how to become a better person.
1/ We now live in a world in which our mobile communication devices can be instruments of assassination. Meanwhile, SCOTUS ruled presidents have criminal immunity.
1/ United States of America collectively is suffering from generations of PTSD. As a nation we are simultaneously the cause as well as victims of self-inflicted terror.
2/ Within individuals, PTSD may stem from a continuing family history of alcoholism or spousal/parental/child abuse over generations.
If not family related, other causes such as sex predators, horrorific experiences from military combat or surviving a random catastrophic event.
3/ Those with PTSD are often not aware how it impacts their lives, social interactions or choices they make. Victims may be regulated by constant fear or violently triggered from sights, sounds, odors or even sitting in a dentist chair.
1/ I was 13 when I became an activist in the early 1980s. Sadly, as a kid, I quickly learned to fear houses hanging American flags.
Invariably, they were hostile to any issue I cared about.
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2/ This confused me as it was Democrat and liberal, John F. Kennedy that challenged us to, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
What's forgotten about that iconic line is how JFK linked patriotism to freedom.
3/ Twenty years prior to JFK's inaugural, Democrat and liberal, Franklin Roosevelt defined his vision of American patriotic values in his "Four Freedoms" speech (see below).
He delivered that speech eleven months prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.