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saidsimplesimon

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Tue Dec 10, 2019, 01:43 PM Dec 2019

L'tat, c'est moi is nowhere in the founding documents.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/america-the-hot-mess/ar-BBXQweJ
The New York Times
America the Hot Mess

Timothy Egan
12/7/19
…snip
Yet, if you look again — through obfuscations foreign and domestic, beyond the noise of the social media mob — you find a durable past that may just save us yet. The big story of the American experiment, a nation that is not an ethnic, racial or religious state but an idea, is not dead. It’s not even past.

For starters, despite a presidential policy sourced from the sewers of white supremacy, a nation of immigrants has not turned against immigrants. The consensus, though battered, is intact: About 60 percent of Americans say openness to outsiders is essential to our identity. The majority says immigrants strengthen the country.

Twice before, this animating idea has been under deadly assault. In the 1850s, as waves of ravaged Irish refugees washed up on our shores, the Know Nothing Party rose to keep them from becoming citizens. The huddled masses were too dirty, too criminal, too foreign, too loud, too clannish, too Catholic.
Lincoln despised the Know Nothings; his rise helped lead to their demise.
…snip
Today, there is no external enemy to unite us — not the British Crown, Nazi Germany or a Communist Soviet Union. For much of the world, and more than half of the United States, Trump is the uniter — the repellent-in-chief. As we saw again this week in Europe, the president is a laughingstock, mocked for his buffoonery, ignorance and bluster. In just a few days abroad, he made 21 false statements, a microcosm of his presidency.

At home, he wages war on American institutions: the military, the courts, Congress, the press, respect for truth, the Constitution itself. But he also faces certain impeachment, because what he did warrants no other choice. Though he most likely won’t be removed, a majority of Americans say he has committed an impeachable offense. He will be forever remembered for the gross violations of his oath.
We should be loud and proud with this to the rest of the world: L’état, c’est moi is nowhere in the founding documents. That’s another story America can yet tell.


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L'tat, c'est moi is nowhere in the founding documents. (Original Post) saidsimplesimon Dec 2019 OP
Trump's desire is to be America's monarch. nt 42bambi Dec 2019 #1
My desire is to give the glutton saidsimplesimon Dec 2019 #2
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