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I sent the message at the link below to Lauren Boebert. Do likewise for her and those of her fellow Republican signers of the discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act (Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, and Thomas Massie).
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Three times in his excellent column today David French used the word “decent” or “decency.” I appeal to all readers to stand up for decency and sense and help pull us back from the destination in which we are headed.
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Liz Cheney on May 11, 2021:
“[We must] love our country...so much that we will stand above politics to defend her...We must love America so much that we will never yield in her defense.”
No Kings.
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If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.
– Arlo Guthrie
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This Constitution Day, I speak about the First Amendment.
I it especially appropriate and urgent to do so in light of vastly increased threats emanating from the federal government in the aftermath of events last week.
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Some thoughts on Mona Charen's piece today on the Epstein scandal:
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Last week, a state representative maligned her opponents in the other major party with a blatant falsehood. I take this opportunity to promote the Pro-Truth Pledge. Take it yourself and request that elected officials and other influential people likewise do so!
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I reflect upon the October 2021 "Open Letter in Defense of Democracy."
What will it take to galvanize an effective united front to confront this dire challenge to the very existence of the republic? How can what already exists be brought to necessary scale?
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Gov. Ralph Carr issued a warning:
“[I]f a majority may deprive a minority of its freedom, contrary to the terms of the Constitution today, then you as a minority may be subjected to the same ill-will of the majority tomorrow.”
Please read the essay.
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The final paragraph:
*****The widespread susceptibility to propaganda and the abdication of civic responsibility to resist it has been and will continue to be our downfall. All who recognize this problem ought energetically address it.*****
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The point of my latest edition of Decency and Sense is not to promote my or any side of the debate topic. It is, rather, to provide a glimpse of a Braver Angels debate.
Please take a look and a listen.
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Share this truism from Jonathan V. Last:
*****Not every slide into illiberalism ends in genocide. But every genocide starts with a slide into illiberalism. And we won’t arrest this slide by pretending it can’t possibly happen here.*****
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Concluding passage:
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How willing are we to stand up for those whom one’s leaders and peers have attacked and demonized in bad faith, as the president routinely does?
In other words, how willing are we to stand up stoutly for decency and sense?
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It is the duty of every patriot to commit to stand up against the “unworthy passions” of those among us – starting with the occupant of the presidency – who would throw away what Jefferson and the other founders granted to us and to the world.
We who fight for our republic also must not yield to fatalism. We must counter propaganda with truth.
Most importantly, we must go far beyond grousing amongst ourselves and reach those who do not already agree with us.
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We elect officials to exercise their best judgment, not rely upon a "sincere hope" that an eventuality outside of their control will bail them out.
Perhaps Murkowski will find a way to redeem herself. That she do so soon is my sincere hope.
More at the link.
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Reconciliation rules required that the 2017 tax cuts expire.
A razor-thin majority nearly identical to that in 2017 has nullified the stricture that made possible the filibuster-free passage of the original bill to enable filibuster-free passage of this monstrosity.
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Tillis did not acknowledge his responsibility to "represent[] the great people of North Carolina to the best of [his] ability" until after he surrendered his political ambition. Let him to the fullest take this opportunity to reclaim his integrity.
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Democrats in the House ought to conduct minority panels to highlight the executive branch's gross corruption, malfeasance, and trampling of the Constitution. Such sessions, publicized to the hilt, would also shine a light on their Republican colleagues' complicity.
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The protests yesterday were neither frivolous nor partisan. There are people of decency and sense of all political leanings who see the danger as I do. In seeking to spread awareness, we are acting in accordance with our duty as responsible citizens.
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The quickness was insufficient.
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Keep doing what you are doing, the more the better.
We need you!
As I wrote in January, you are a beacon of light and truth!
Please keep speaking out and keep helping to rally the decent and sensible to our common cause.
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To understand a major contributor to the American political crisis, consider the president's condemnation of NAFTA, his first-term renaming it as the USMCA, and his current abbrogation of the USMCA.
Unreasoning people support the president in all three.
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If the aftermath of the original Kent State massacre is any guide – two years later, Nixon won reelection in a landslide – one ought have little expectation that something similar now would cause a backlash that would significantly harm 45th/47th politically.
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My bottom line:
*****We, the subset of the polity who together make up "the country of George Washington," must ever strive to elevate the force of his character over that of our low counterparts who align with Benedict Arnold, George Wallace, and the 45th/47th.*****
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My bottom line:
*****It may be useful to memorialize Cassidy's grave error and to make of it an object lesson. Perhaps his name can become a verb: "Senator [fill in the blank] Cassidy-ed the dangerously unfit nominee."*****
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I like PurpleAmerica.
However, the glib bothsidesism is just too much.
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