Let's see, how do i put this? Ok starting with i grew up in the 40,s 50,s 60,s through today. i've witnessed many things

[bluestarone]

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Now i'm witnessing what's happening last few years (NIGHTMARE years now) I believe i've witnessed how a beautiful democratic most powerful country in the WORLD can be turned into the WORST most powerful country in the world, by the monsters controlling EVERY branch of Government. Somehow we have to get these monsters out of country.. It's up to true Americans to save America!

[Irish_Dem]

1. Yes.

[surfered]

2. Fascists seem to be like cockroaches. You can't seem to completely eliminate them

[bluestarone]

3. Yes, great example for sure.

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. Did you miss all the imperialism and misery we caused the entire time?

Genocide, slavery, theft of lands and resources, preventing countries from determining their own fate, coups, death squads……all so corporations could increase their wealth and power..

The shit done to our own people in this “free, beautiful” country the whole time is just as bad.

All Piss has done is thrown off the veil, this is what this country has always been.

It just seems new because liberal white people are finally seeing what it’s been like for everyone else all this time.

This meme sums it up perfectly.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ2V3yuDtC-/?igsh=MTZidDRlbHNrdWZjeA==

[Permanut]

11. 100% correct..

I grew up in the same era as bluestarone, and was simply unaware of the conditions you describe.

Not asking for a pass; the previous generations should have corrected these things.

Speaking as a (now old) white guy.

[Joinfortmill]

5. Operative phase, 'any means possible'

[czarjak]

8. "Any means NECESSARY."!

They mean it too.

[PatSeg]

7. It certainly does make one appreciate

how good things were before, even though there was obviously a lot of room for improvement.

If we ever get back to a thriving democracy in my lifetime, I will never take it for granted again.

[KT2000]

9. We will not be the most powerful

At some point, after other countries get rid of their investments in the US, they will turn away from the dollar and use other currencies. Stupid Trump thinks Putin is a partner but he will tank the US economy by forcing alliances away from the US.

[Martin Eden]

14. Putin wants America severely weakened, economically and diplomatically

Which explains why he made such an effort to get Trump elected.

[KT2000]

18. Exactly

and trump's unresolved daddy issues will take where Putin wants us. trump was just too easy to figure out for a spy trained in psychology.

[Kablooie]

10. And one party admires and worships the monsters.

They refuse to see what they are and what they are doing.
That’s the big challenge.

[Martin68]

12. I've been with you for most of that trip and I share your pain.

[bluestarone]

13. Happy with most, but

TSF and his CULT TRAITORS has me boiling!!

[tavernier]

15. As one who thought the world ended when Buddy Holly died,

I traveled this road with you. Sad to see the garbage that now slimes the hallowed halls of Our House.

[Martin Eden]

16. The "Shining City on a Hill" has never been fully achieved, but...

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So many of us believed the United States of America would continue striving for that Shining City, building a "more perfect" Union.

Being a white male born in 1957, I grew up without realizing or acknowledging the opportunity and privilege I had that others did not -- especially those facing racial discrimination who were essentially being denied the American Dream.

Unlike many in my all-white neighborhood, my parents and elderly aunt who lived with us cared deeply about civil rights. I have a vivid memory of coming downstairs one April morning to find Aunt Kate weeping. She had turned on the news, and heard that Dr. King had been murdered. When I went to school that day, my "peers" were celebrating. Their parents had different views than mine.

America has always been subject to the ugly side of human nature -- ignorance, racism, tribalism, unfettered greed at the highest levels of capitalism, and an electoral system corrupted by monied interests.

I saw the promise of a young generation inspired to do what they can for their country squandered on the scorched earth of Vietnam. Then more assassinations, riots, nihilism, drugs, hedonism, selfishness.

But still, progress. Racial slurs and overt sexist remarks directed at women no longer tolerated in many spheres. LGBTQ rights, the first Black president.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but perhaps it steadily bends towards justice. Of course, dedication and persistence among women and men of good will are required to do the bending.

Abraham Lincoln, perhaps our greatest president, during a cataclysmic war tearing our nation apart, in dedicating a cemetery for the fallen, spoke of the last true measure of devotion which would bring new birth of freedom.

Americans once again are experiencing some very dark days, with no clear view of the light of a better future.

Nothing is guaranteed. Arc bending is required. That shining city still resides in many hearts. It is up to us and younger generations of Americans to build it.

[SheilaAnn]

17. Well said and beautifully written. Many thanks.