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Jared Yates Sexton is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. .. more
If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.
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More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
It’s more obvious now than ever that capitalism is an unfair and poisonous system. We must look at them and recognize the lies we were sold.
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This constant obsession over “has this Right Wing figure changed” obscures the truth that the political environment has changed.
That’s what history teaches us and it’s on us to be ready for the fight. And, if we are, we will win.
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The question is which will win out in the end and that question just got a whole lot louder.
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The work doesn’t end here, but everything begins with courage and if we are going to get out of this mess it’s going to take courage to believe in better.
Amnesia in this will only deliver us to worse things. Let Cheney’s poisonous legacy be a monument to what we cannot brook.
Never forget this. Remember it always.
We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.
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"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
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"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
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Build mutual aid. The only way we get out of this mess is to reinvigorate our sense of interconnectedness.
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Access to resources and programs designed to make our lives better is being stolen from us so that the oppressors can use, hoard, and distribute them to friends and hold them ransom in order to force compliance.
"In an election, we support our party's nominee. Schumer has pressured other Democrats to do just that, and he should be following his own advice."
In both cases it is the moderate’s job to express “concern” about both camps while impeding the former and providing impotent “resistance” to the latter.
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"In an election, we support our party's nominee. Schumer has pressured other Democrats to do just that, and he should be following his own advice."