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Lillian Holsworth's avatar

I have a maga House of Representative- Kevin Kiley .. I no longer think Of him& all like him as my representative. But my Enemy.. the Republican Party are the enemy of Democracy - enemies to side step & our smart. Don't let your guard down.

No working across the dam isle:

That's suicidal for our Democracy.

The Republican have adhered to bigotry, cruelty and 24/7 lying.

They are all garbage.

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J Wilson's avatar

The realization of betrayal often dawns slowly. We default to rationalizations with other reasons, to other explanations for what is appearing right before our eyes, to postulates of what the faint light might be dimly unveiling. What is to be made of the dawning’s reveal? How do we process what we are slowly seeing in a manner that’s consistent with our expectations and experiences? In a manner that doesn’t madden us with a screaming dissonance from pondering the once imponderable? What do we make of one of the two major political parties in the world’s oldest democracy that now disappears those with opposing views, extorts and punishes businesses and institutions that disagree with its policies, threatens peaceful nations - that have been steadfast friends - with forceful occupation and exploitation, abolishes agencies that fed and vaccinated millions of our fellow humans and now leaves them sick and starving, destroys its society’s essential services and abandons its citizens to chaos and fear? When the light is brighter and the revelation is full, the democracy we knew at last dusk is now a chimeric abomination, a snarling fascist beast with jaws that bite and claws that catch.

There is an instinctive primitive response when finally understanding and confronting the MAGAwocky. And that is not to converse and reason with it, but to scream…

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