I would argue that the unraveling began with Newt Gingrich, when the Republicans were won the 1994 off-year elections and began poisoning the political bloodstream. It has grown progressively worse since then. From the tea party to MAGA, all of it is Gingrich’s malignant legacy.
The train never left the rails…we are on the same rails our racist slave owning founding fathers originally put in place…not allowing women and non landowners to ride the rails…now we are just further on down the line, which is deceivingly straight, but actually circular - always bringing us back to our country’s original sin…slavery and racism. We are a democracy founded upon the baggage of herpes, which will never go away…we just manage the flare ups. Don-old Drumpf is a flare up, and he won’t be the last. Harris is our last hope or barrier to a more serious disease.
I have lived in Palestine / Israel. Nothing is ever plain and simple. We exist in a world of gray.
Don’t let an extremist portion of a population confuse you into believing the entire country is hopelessly infected by fascist thought. The spirit of Yitzhak Rabin is alive and well. Unfortunately, it is overshadowed by loudmouth settlers selfishly pursuing exploited capitalist quality of life gains led by a country’s fascist leader who is a an indicted criminal…oh, wait…I am talking about Israel and not America. Sure sounds similar though. But the US shouldn’t be defined by Don-old Drumpf and the party of racist fascist either. Right? Nor should we ever underestimate American influence via strategic narcissism over its younger bully-sibling-first-cousin, Israel. Just as democracy must win here in America, the same applies in the Middle East. A better means to end genocide in Palestine exists than it ever could (presently) for Saudi with Yemen (though Western strategic narcissism has pushed those levers also). Unfortunately, our corporate mainstream media continues to frame too many stovepipes in Middle East politics, leading to your interrupted analysis of Palestinian genocide…or genocide in general. We all should do better in understanding this.
I would argue that the unraveling began with Newt Gingrich, when the Republicans were won the 1994 off-year elections and began poisoning the political bloodstream. It has grown progressively worse since then. From the tea party to MAGA, all of it is Gingrich’s malignant legacy.
The train never left the rails…we are on the same rails our racist slave owning founding fathers originally put in place…not allowing women and non landowners to ride the rails…now we are just further on down the line, which is deceivingly straight, but actually circular - always bringing us back to our country’s original sin…slavery and racism. We are a democracy founded upon the baggage of herpes, which will never go away…we just manage the flare ups. Don-old Drumpf is a flare up, and he won’t be the last. Harris is our last hope or barrier to a more serious disease.
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Agree, except for the Israeli flag emoji. No longer support anything Israel does or says or stands for, they stand for genocide, plain and simple.
I have lived in Palestine / Israel. Nothing is ever plain and simple. We exist in a world of gray.
Don’t let an extremist portion of a population confuse you into believing the entire country is hopelessly infected by fascist thought. The spirit of Yitzhak Rabin is alive and well. Unfortunately, it is overshadowed by loudmouth settlers selfishly pursuing exploited capitalist quality of life gains led by a country’s fascist leader who is a an indicted criminal…oh, wait…I am talking about Israel and not America. Sure sounds similar though. But the US shouldn’t be defined by Don-old Drumpf and the party of racist fascist either. Right? Nor should we ever underestimate American influence via strategic narcissism over its younger bully-sibling-first-cousin, Israel. Just as democracy must win here in America, the same applies in the Middle East. A better means to end genocide in Palestine exists than it ever could (presently) for Saudi with Yemen (though Western strategic narcissism has pushed those levers also). Unfortunately, our corporate mainstream media continues to frame too many stovepipes in Middle East politics, leading to your interrupted analysis of Palestinian genocide…or genocide in general. We all should do better in understanding this.
https://youtu.be/pJ9PKQbkJv8?si=ECQyT1J5e60OaFnv
Ah…so you’ve lived in Israel.
Can’t wait to sit down with these guys Fred. Good job!