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Reminds me there’s a Michael Meade quote I found recently, "Abuse is the wrong thing done to the wrong person by the wrong person at the wrong time. Regardless how wrong it is, the soul experiences abuse as an initiatory experience.... Gun violence in the USA schools
This weekend Stephanie got onto an instagram rabbithole which took her into some dark, near-conspiracy places about gun violence. The sad bit was of course the increase in polarization, rather than an increase in compassion, or even solutions focus.... - Philip...
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I think there has been a steady increase in executive power, since at least FDR, but likely stemming from the wartime powers Lincoln used and the subsequent reconcstruction presidents who were the first to deal with a lot of issues that would reoccur after them (Industrial... What's good about Trump?
I don't follow (American national) politics a ton, but I know Trump is an incredibly divisive figure who just got convicted of 34 felony counts, while still being favored as the Republican candidate for the next presidential race.... INTRODUCTION Neither King Nor Mob I first encountered American politics as an argument, not a spectacle. At fifteen, I read The Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist responses.... Neither King Nor Mob
INTRODUCTION Neither King Nor Mob I first encountered American politics as an argument, not a spectacle. At fifteen, I read The Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist responses.... 🔥 America lifted billions out of poverty through liberty and free enterprise. Socialism dragged entire nations into hell. Why is the Democratic Socialist movement still growing here?... 🗳️ Are mainstream Democrat voters being sidelined by their own party's activist wing? https://www.undergroundusa.com/p/the-democrat-partys-suicidal-embrace #DemocratParty #DSA #PoliticalDivide #BigTentPolitics #AmericanPolitics #Democrats... - onI am disgusted, angry and can not BELIEVE what the Republicans and 5 democrats did Yesterday. I love, absolutely this Republic and the fact that our representatives have given our sovereignty away and sold our military out is unacceptable. Am I the only one feeling this way? bySassiebrat67...
Hold on... I was replying to someone else in the thread that was saying democrats were communists. I was asking why couldn't democrats be trying to do all that I stated.I wanted to know how that made democrats communist.... 🛡️ 100+ million dead from Communism — yet it's infiltrating our schools, Big Tech, and DC. Will we defeat it like our Founders defeated tyranny? https://www.undergroundusa.com/p/trump-is-right-communism-is-americas #CommunismThreat #FightMarxism #WakeUpAmerica #CulturalMarxism... - pacjac...
🔥 “When Freedom Taxes Its Own” They call themselves conservative Americans, freedom‑loving patriots, defenders of the American Dream. But out here in the Plains States — Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa — those same “freedom‑loving” leaders are taxing homeowners for...