“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” - Abraham Lincoln
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I’m laughing at reading everybody’s responses and okay I get the irony. But I still think he would’ve said it because the larger point remains. Transformations created at the ballot box are more profound for a society in the long run than is the assassination of any one person.

Oct 13, 2020 · 6:41 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
True, but Dems more and more have a habit of violently dealing with those who disagree with them too loudly.
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Transformations at the ballot box? Puh-leeze! We live in a country where you can't vote against the very things that are destroying us and the world. You can't vote against fracking, the wars, against Wall Street. Come on. You have to know this.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I was a senior in HS when JFK was shot. What a shocker! Later, RFK and MLK were shot. A double and triple shocker!!! I don't know what to say. Back then, us Catholics weren't supposed to watch protestant ministers on TV, except for MLK; He was Connected.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Right but it’s not just a matter of his getting shot: he also famously led a civil war (bullet) to regain control over a country because his election (ballot) was not enough to legitimise his authority. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." -Mao Zedong
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Last time we got rid of the nazis bullets were extremely effective in bringing about change, and the whole thing collapsed when one man died
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So that whole thing Andrew Johnson did to post-war reconstruction was just a roundabout way of voting for Booth's bullet I take it
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famous success story, Reconstruction
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You’re 100% wrong, not only did he wage war and shoot people because voting didn’t work, but he also got shot.
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Exactly! Like when we voted England out of the continent or voted slavery out of the south. Voting matters. Voting is the best way to change the world and we should try that first. If that doesn't work, there is a backup plan.
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