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We must expose the real threat to liberty You think things are bad in America now? Wait until hungry heads-of-households stop hoping for help and start stealing from stores or kicking in doors to get food for their kids. It’s already starting to happen. We’re in an unacknowledged Second Republican Great Depression.

The work of 245 years & millions of lives dedicated or given to defend the American ideal could vanish Today is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and is also the day after 45 Republicans in the Senate voted that Trump’s attempt to turn America into a fascist state was just fine with them. How does this kind of horror happen in otherwise civilized, advanced countries?

It has to end, and you can help It’s time to end the filibuster and bring democracy to the US Senate. The filibuster was invented by “the Grandfather of the Confederacy” John C. Calhoun, and its only purpose is to block legislation that otherwise has broad popular support but is opposed by racists and big corporate special interest groups.

Don’t give it to them: the moment demands justice For many Americans, it’s just now starting to seriously sink in that on January 6th Donald Trump’s allies killed five people in an attempt to violently overthrow the government of the United States and replace it with an strongman oligarchic dictatorship. Their violence was so severe that additional dozens were hospitalized and the Vice President, members of Congress and their staffers spent hours hiding in terror. One policeman was murdered, a second committed suicide, and dozens of others were viciously beaten. The traitors brought into our Capitol building the battle flag of the insurrection of 1861, smeared feces on carpets and walls, stole classified documents, and trashed government offices.

Technological independence and repudiating “free trade” are key A technological arms race is underway right now between China, the United States and Western Europe. The stakes include military superiority, economic prosperity, and the status of being the political and economic system the world wants to emulate. China’s most urgent priority is to become independent of American technology, as Fareed Zakaria highlighted on his January 24th CNN show.

If Dems don’t figure this out soon 2022 is a loss In politics, framing is everything, and Democrats must get with the program or 2022 will be a disaster. Framing is when you define an issue by placing it within a particular context, usually done by careful choice of language.

It’s about time the last one, Trump, is held accountable Trump’s impeachment trial is coming up in the Senate, and already his allies are trying to throw up procedural roadblocks to exhaust the effort to hold him accountable. Should America “move beyond” Trump? No friggin’ way. It’s time to stop giving criminal Republican presidents a pass. Every GOP president since Dwight Eisenhower used treason or deception to come to office, and it needs to end. Here’s the story.

Other developed countries are doing all these things; we can, too Since the Reagan Revolution, America has been slowly dying. Democrats must focus like a laser on three things to breathe new life into our country. They are Education, Healthcare, and a Green New Deal.

Grifter Trump stole Trumpism, just like everything else in his life The king is dead; long live the [new] king.* With today’s transfer of power in Washington, DC, Trump isn’t dead, but the best hope for the future of America and the world is that his political movement does, in fact, die an ignominious death. Trump, of course, didn’t create Trumpism; like pretty much everything else in his life, he stole it.

Joe Biden must “pack the court” Thanks to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, the Supreme Court has become a menace, and only Congress and President Biden can fix it.