1/ It was a radical idea, founding a country based on the idea that a government should serve its people. Though never fully actualized, until this era the aspiration prevailed.
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2/ Historians will analyze for much longer than any of us will be on this earth exactly what happened, how the experiment failed, how it came to be that we lost our spark, succumbed to our worst impulses and allowed our government to turn against its people.

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3/ But that doesn’t have to be the end of the story. Many kinds of death are followed by rebirth. As blind as it would be to deny the tragedy of what’s occurring now, it would be similarly blind to deny the reality of miracles that emerge in the midst of even the darkest night.
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Are you referring to Russia gate?
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Liberals ruin everything.
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Wrong! The people turned against their own
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Decades of propaganda sewing and perpetuating division, manipulating masses to blindly support, be complicit, or feel powerless.
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It happened when the government drove communists out of public life and liberals didn’t have anyone to make them look bad for moving right. They use identity politics to hide the fact that they’re otherwise just as corporate-owned as Republicans.
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Citizens united, and unlimited money in politics was the end
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If people were actually still reading what historians wrote, we wouldn't be in the shit mess we're in. There won't be any ultimate comeuppance as a result of the historians even if it is all fully and accurately recounted. The real culprit in our downfall is piss poor education.