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Hekate

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5. Before falling for bs false equivalency, realize in this country we can still take to the streets...
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 01:32 PM
Jun 2018

...without tanks and machine guns mowing us down (Tien An Men Square). We can read the newspaper of our choice, write to the editor, start a paper of our own. We can blog, we can join a discussion board. We can work to persuade others who,do not agree with us. Shall I go on?

We can resist the forces of evil.

After Bush-Cheney we elected Barack Obama, not a mythical savior but a chance to get it right. After Obama, we in fact elected Hillary Clinton -- another chance to get it right.

But Hillary was taken down in an act of war, and the hateful forces of backlash are wearing red hats and thumping their chests.

We are in terrible trouble. But we are not done yet. Tell the truth about our flaws as a nation, by all means, but don't peddle false equivalency. Resist.

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