— from Cindy Wolf —
We will win this battle for the soul of our country. This moment is why people started organizing in our communities two years ago. The Trump faction wants chaos and fear. What we can do is create order and systems to bypass, mitigate, challenge and ultimately rid ourselves of their rule.
Trump says he will no longer kidnap children at the border. What about the thousands already separated from their parents? There will be thousands more in detention with their parents because people will keep coming. Wouldn’t you rather walk a thousand miles with your kids to live in a warehouse for years than watch them be tortured and killed by gangsters? Shouldn’t we offer people a better choice?
The right and powerful thing to do is send money to NWIRP, KIND and the ACLU so they can represent families and keep lawsuits alive, fund and volunteer for organizations finding and reuniting separated children with families, and send money to LIRS and Catholic Charities to get blankets and counseling to the children. Demonstrate June 30th.
The midterm elections will likely be the most important in your lifetime. Make sure your people all over this country register to vote, check with their counties to verify they are on the rolls and vote for the Democrat in November. Even if they are registered Republicans, beg them this one time to vote the straight Democratic ticket to fight paralysis.
Republicans who might speak up fear losing primaries and their seats to extremists. They do not use their legislative check, so the appointment of judges who do not uphold human rights laws will continue to the point where the judicial check can no longer protect anyone or anything. We also
need the State governments. This last time, resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism is still possible by empowering governors and state and federal legislators who owe Trump nothing. The United States just pulled out of the UN Human Rights Council. What do you think happens to us next?
A Coalition of Sanity must win the November elections. We are ready and we will!
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RIGHT ON, CINDY. RIGHT ON.
As much as it pains me top say it, and how it hurts, our, last progressive president was, yes.Richard Nixon! (ADA, EPA, Food stamps.) His EPA the reason I can now breath the urban air of Seattle.
While it is impossible to argue with the sentiment here I regret that the Dismal Dollar Drenched Dems (Paul Street) are far to mobbed up to receive anyone’s blanket endorsement.
My first vote at eighteen was for Daniel J Evans, the last of the progressive Republicans. Aside from maybe Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters, there may not be any Democrat as liberal in belief and practice as was Daniel J.
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Third party time. Otherwise this perpetual war party will continue murdering at home an abroad through the lives of our grandchildren.
Joseph, you needed to start organizing five or ten years ago. A third party will not garner enough votes for congressional seats by the midterms. If you think bloody dictatorships are great for galvanizing an evolution towards peace and prosperity, be sure to cast that third party vote and get all your friends on board. People in Chile under Pinochet were, in fact, way less able to work for peace and progress. Also, the rest of the world really thinks the Trump faction is destabilizing likely to cause more war and violence. First Aid. Get the guy shutting down borders and interning people out of control of Congress, THEN work for your third party.
Cindy WOlf,
Say what?
All of this depredation you speak of here has nothing to do with what I am speaking to. Trump didn’t come full blown from the head of Zeus. We have been separating parents from children since the first slave ship rolled into Charleston Bay,,
Otherwise, blanket endorsements along party lines is exactly what the Pinochet’s of the world demand of political process. If a Democrat offers, at best, a marginal alternative to the cruelty at the heart of our economic system (Yeah, I’m talking coal shed Rick here) is that really enough?.
What is required here is not a change of party at the top or bottom of the bill of sales, it’s a change of heart.
Civilians imprisoned on Military bases for indefinite periods of time. An exponential increase in border arrests. Refusal of asylum. Withdrawal from the Human Rights Council. Pinochet did things on the scale of soccer stadiums. Want to go there? That is where we are headed. I am painfully aware of our history. That doesn’t mean things can’t get worse than they are right now. Internment of Japanese Americans, genocide against First Nations and slavery happened. Does this somehow relieve you of your moral obligation to resist the atrocities mounting right here, right now? What is your hypothetical third party going to do to stop this? Whatever you think of Rick Larsen, he would actively fight imprisoning you for your opposition. Trump would happily lock you up and throw away the key. He has outright said so. The courts are the thin line deterring attempts
To jail political opponents. Please, please, take this moment seriously. It is not like anything I have lived through and I lived through Nixon, Reagan (Contragate) and the L.A. Riots.
Please, Mr.Murphy, when making your points leave the name-calling parenthetical remarks out…
Once again, I have NO qualms with the opposition to the current mileau being expessed in the initial post. I agree that our legal system – the courts and specifically the ACLU – are our last line o defense against the atrocities being cisited upon us.
However , to look at the current situation as anomalous and not lopng in the making is a mistaken view. The Dems offer us nothing except manipulation and two faced pandering. THe wars will continue. This is my main point.
As I generally avoid the ad hominem argument as fallacious (see social media) sometimes it is a necessary tool in rhetorical discourse. As long as its is clever and salient (see, The dozens) Next time, I will leave out the patens.
By the way, the San Juan dems unanimously refused to endorse Re Larsen four years ago. Why was that?
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. Therefore is the name of it called Babel
Genesis 11:7,9