Think for a moment how few present-day Republicans hold to what Teddy Roosevelt said here. It’s actually smack-dab in the middle of the modern Democratic platform.
This assertion is what’s now called “woke,” i.e., the notion that we should care about the wellbeing of one another.
One would have thought this was as firmly fixed in our society as anything could possibly be.
I had the honor of meeting the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court a few years ago.
The wisdom she expressed here seems to be lost on today’s high court, which has little if any interest in protecting the American people against a “system that that has served others so poorly.”
By protecting Donald Trump against criminal prosecution and granting him immunity, they’ve effectively ended our democracy and headed us toward fascism, a system that has served poorly everyone who has ever suffered under it.
The lady in the “Jesus” shirt has a new style of holster for sale–one that is guaranteed to help you blow away your enemies in record time.
In an age where many Americans seem so eager to re-elect a man to the presidency who tried to overthrow the United States government, there are a few people from his party who stand vocally against him.
Good going, Liz Cheney.
Re: the discussion at left, senior energy and financial analyst Robert Rapier writes:
I’m afraid Steven Martin is correct in what he says here.
If there is an announcement late in the evening of November 5th, 2024, or sometime in the days that follow, to the effect that Trump has won re-election, the world will have to accept that the United States is no longer a democracy and will be rapidly transitioning to an authoritative state.
If I were to name one aspect of Tim Snyder’s uniqueness as a historian, it’s his capacity to take his tremendous intellect and make it accessible to the average person.
And of course, at this point in U.S., history, this is not just some quirky little curiosity; it’s vital that the common American understands what Dr. Snyder is saying in the meme at left, and acts accordingly.
What turn-of-the-20th-Century political figure Eugene V. Debs said here is correct, but never in U.S., history has this nation come so close to radically transforming itself and our society according to extremist right-wing values.
Via the theft that followed the 2020 presidential election, the United States is knocking on the door of Christian authoritarianism.
Re: the meme here, I highly doubt it. In fact, Project 2025 looks like the present-day Republicans’ dream. From its Wikipedia page:
Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican Party candidate win the 2024 presidential election. It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of merit-based federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with those who will be more willing to enact the wishes of the next Republican president. It asserts that the president has absolute power over the executive branch.
Critics of Project 2025 have characterized it as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to transform the United States into an autocracy. Many legal experts have asserted it would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties.
The fact that Project 2025 would “undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties” is precisely the point; it’s what the Heritage Foundation has been hard at work on since its inception in 1973.
