1/ Having come this close to losing our democracy, millions of more people now realize how important it is that we have one - however imperfect and bedraggled it is.

Jan 20, 2021 · 8:33 AM UTC

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2/ We didn’t come so close to the cliff because of just one man; we came so close because We the People took our eyes off the ball, too many of us allowing the musculature of vital citizenship to whither while we were off doing other things.
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3/ It was a painful awakening but a necessary one. As long as we remain alert, as long as we don’t go back to sleep, as long as we refuse to ever again farm out our democracy to those unworthy of our trust, then the future will be much better than the past.
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4/ Democracy doesn’t work when it’s citizens become disengaged. Citizenship must become something we consider part of a meaningful and well lived life. So many of this have learned so much. America has been humbled, and in the final analysis that is not a bad thing.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Your partisanship has distorted your rational thought process.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Get real. Our democracy was never in peril. It was a myth created by super liberals to boot strap their arguments/positions-like you.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Handing country over to party of censorship, mandatory lockdowns, mandatory vaccines, (mandatory anything goes), fake media, fake investigations, fake candidates, Hunter Biden corruption, exploitation of sensitive complex issues to manipulate the citizens, violence, war, is dem?
Replying to @marwilliamson
Come close to Losing our democracy??? Have ya seen Washington DC lately?? It looks like they're appointing a dictator, not inaugurating a President of the USA. Wow.
Replying to @marwilliamson
The bickering and posturing and the frustration of never getting anything done ... as frustrating as it is ... is certainly better than a dictator!
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Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush's secretary of Defense, always said that ... Democracy is messy!
Replying to @marwilliamson
Thank you for pointing this out
Replying to @marwilliamson
I just can not understand the stupidity of you people.
Replying to @marwilliamson
We do not have a democracy.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
It’s debatable that we ever had a functioning democracy
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