Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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This is outrageous.
Somehow, following a 17-year-old killing two people, the Kenosha police chief defends the mobilization of vigilantes to his town:
“Across this nation there have been armed civilians who have come out to exercise their constitutional right and to potentially protect property.”
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Bernie and I both talked about it. Dems don’t go there because it’s about the arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
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First of all, I didn’t say that. Second of all, being educated about the past can do a lot to empower you in the present.
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When he talked about those things in the context of race he was fine (relatively). It’s when he started talking about the war in Viet Nam that he was killed.
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Almost everyone right now would be well served reading a basic book about American history. Knowing our historical landscape gives us two gifts: 1/ we’ve been through very, very, very tough times before, and 2/ our pattern over time has always been to self-correct. We will again.
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Women’s Suffrage and Civil Rights legislation dismantling segregation. It’s not just about peaceful protesting. That’s the point of the post. It’s about peaceful non-violent activism of all kinds.
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The Voting Rights Act was chipped away at but not dismantled. And you’re absolutely right about everything else you said, but the question remains how to deal it.
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I know the system is corrupt. I know it firsthand. But still, there are enough places - look at Jamaal Bowman in NY for instance - where progressives have triumphed over the corporatist elite. We can do this. But we have to work hard at it.
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Elect real progressives. It’s hard, it takes work, it’s exhausting, but there are those who have proven it can be done.
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