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L'tat, c'est moi is nowhere in the founding documents.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/america-the-hot-mess/ar-BBXQweJThe New York Times
America the Hot Mess
Timothy Egan
12/7/19
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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. Its 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.
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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 wont 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: Létat, cest moi is nowhere in the founding documents. Thats 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
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42bambi
(1,753 posts)1. Trump's desire is to be America's monarch. nt
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)2. My desire is to give the glutton
any extra helping of whoop ass until he departs our White House.