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TheDurableDon's avatar

We need to get serious about national divorce. The Right is a malignant cancer that is metastasizing. It will take us all down if we don’t amputate.

You say that the country needs unity. What you are suggesting is impossible as long as the right-wing hate machine is still operating. The Right doesn’t want democracy. They want to bully. That’s the dopamine hit they’re addicted to. The feeling of “power over”. It’s why, even though the GOP controls all three branches of government, they’re still raging.

They will turn this country into Rwanda of the 1990s.

We’re in a relationship with an abusive spouse that has a gun and is drunk on rage.

You say Unity. I say, “Grab the kids and run!!”

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TheGoldenMean's avatar

I've been putting some serious thought into this and I can't for the life of me make the pieces of the puzzle fit together....If we want to hammer the pieces to fit together, yes but it's ugly, the whole thing is ugly. The truth is we are two worlds two nations but one thing is for sure, money and its religion have gotten us here. That is the first thing we must change Corporatist and Oligarchs.....

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TheDurableDon's avatar

I see that as well. We can hammer it together (which is what the Right is doing right now, aggressively- hammering and hammering until our diversity is reduced to a bloody pulp) and suffer incalculable consequences, or we can agree to live in our alternate realities and let the clearest eyes succeed.

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mary thiel's avatar

Secession

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Dennis W.'s avatar

Well, Mike Nelli in simple language you hit the nail on the head. Yes, resistance is a necessity and vital NOW, until we drop. Yep, the rhetoric from the Ultra right/right-wing along with Trump and his regime are obviously horrendous. All we can do it is just continue to tell the truth and lay out the facts, over and over and over... Also, continue to resist!

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Michael Groothuis's avatar

Critter...if you're siding with the Republicans on this issue, you're sadly mistaken. Unlike any president in my 82 year lifetime, his rhetoric is the most divisive, by far the most aggressive and threatening.

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T Bone's avatar

All part of republican strategy to divert attention from gun control and use it to their political advantage to demonize liberals. A twofer that’s working with conservatives regardless of how could one deranged person who committed a heinous act be tied to an entire political party.

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Phyllis DiCicco's avatar

No matter your party affiliate, Guns kill, rapist rape, racist hang, liars cheat and steal. Pedophiles ruin the lives of children. Greed takes away from the poor and middle class while feeding the richest people in America who have enough money to outlive themselves and generations to follow. We need common sense in this country that has disappeared.

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Agent#99's avatar

I refuse to accept blame for a problem that the Repubs created. They created the extremism of free speech, which apparently now includes threats of vlolence and bodily harm. I have never wished that on the Party. I am particularly offended as a lifelong Independent. They welcomed a one-man crimewave into their Party and then have the nerve to be angry when people define and describe him for who and what he is? Unity means let's keep the discourse civil and agree to disagree. However, that being said, when someone comes to town to take your Constitutional Rights away and never allow you to have a voice again, what is left to do to respond?

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Laura Lowery's avatar

Absolutely agree with you, Mike. Just today I learned that a personal friend who is a well-respected and admired college professor might lose her job due to comments she made in her Substack. Please tell me what has happened to free speech? They are trampling the constitution and all of our rights!! I’m furious!!

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Night Has A Thousand Eyes's avatar

We live in an era where information reinforces our predispositions, is not vetted by critical thinking,and is designed to move thousands if not millions to actions which may be against their best interests. There is a decided preference for being told how to respond rather than to intelligently consider options and it follows that there are those among us who derive a comfortable living by knowing which of our buttons to push. We have relied on Charlie Kirk and others of his ilk to define us and nothing will change until we take the time and effort to define ourselves.

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Barbara Anne Bailey's avatar

You get it! All we need to do is say, remember January 6

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Barbara Anne Bailey's avatar

Muzzle the opposition, but ignore gun control.

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Deborah Dobish's avatar

Politics can only be practiced in the context of a compact (constitution). When the compact is violated, the struggle is no longer politics, but raw power.

A factional movement in society to eliminate another faction is not politics.

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Jeffrey Hobbs's avatar

Two things I've noticed since the Kirk assassination--first, the Right's desperation to make Kirk out as a martyr, even comparing him to MLK. Republicans are desperate/jealous about not having political icons on their side that have the stature of Democrats' icons like MLK, JFK, RFK, etc. The second thing is the high-pitched hyperbolic rhetoric and increased threats of violence against the Left, indicating they know their party is dropping like a stone in public opinion. So how does going off the deep end improve their prospects?

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Joanie Buss's avatar

Great write up! Thank you for the truth!

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Rana Favors's avatar

Well said! And I appreciate it.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

"If Kirk’s mission was truly about free speech"? It never was, it was only about "freedom" to insult, threaten, and where possible murder, the other side. Charlie Kirk always believed that anybody who talked back to him should be shouted down, bullied, fired, threatened, or assaulted. What the right is doing is exactly what Kirk was always about.

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Karen Epstein's avatar

The 34xfelon is so predictably nasty and cruel. He'll never change and those who support him are closed-minded.

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Mama Wink's avatar

Stand tall and don’t succumb to posting more rhetoric. Gets us no where but as bad as doing what the other side is feasting off of. WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS!

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