Proud of my town for showing up and declaring loud and clear that we are not going to let democracy die.
#bend #oregon #handsoff

"Isn't it strange that with all our educational advantages[..] Indiana citizens could be induced to pay $10 for the privilege of haying their neighbors snd wearing a sheet?"[..]"he could make more more money from the renewable hate of everyday white people than he could [..] as an honest businessman

"If he had told them to sprout their wings and fly, half of them would have tried it"

"[Stephenson] discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it."
"The key to small lies was to do it with conviction."

I just read this non-fiction book from Timothy Egan. It turned my stomach upside down on so many levels. There were so many parallels with the upcoming president and I point out some in this thread🧵. We are not learning from History and we keep letting bad chatacters rise to power