Goodbye, America!

United States of America,  July 4, 1776 - October 26, 2020

With the swearing in of Amy Coney Barrett on October 26, 2020, Americans were legally condemned to witness the end of the American experiment to create a country where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the unalienable rights of all. 🤬

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
–George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.

As was the case with the fall of Rome, the collapse of what the Founding Fathers created in America began with the selfishness of the privileged among us.

"Everyone tempted to believe that future generations will have time to address difficult issues that we selfishly choose to ignore should remember their sour legacy."
–final sentence from the article below by Edward Watts

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Toss-Up 2020

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After years of listening to conservatives and evangelicals preach about how much they love everyone while heaping hatred on liberals, I believe I understand why.

Simply put, liberals make conservatives and evangelicals look bad.

Liberals actively support policies and introduce bills designed to make real the ideals which conservatives and evangelicals claim to support. Liberals know that passing legislation involves compromise and that neither they nor their policies are perfect. Yet they persist.

Conservatives and evangelicals, on the other hand, use the rhetoric of piety and patriotism to wrap themselves in fake moral superiority in order to hide the fact that they consistently seek to keep those ideals from becoming law.

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The man in this cartoon has stopped to consider the consequences of his choice. He may go to the left; he may go to the right, but he knows he has a choice to make. He is clearly a liberal.

Conservatives and evangelicals who arrive at that spot do not hesitate. They simply go to the right and claim that a left turn would lead to socialism, attacks on religion, and the undermining of individual freedom.

A Failure of Leadership

The Indictment

I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously,” Obama said. “But he never did.He’s shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves.Donald Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t,
–President Barack Obama, August 19, 2020

The Lie

HE SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GOT CAUGHT!
–Donald Trump, 10:33 PM · Aug 19, 2020 and hundreds of times since then.

The Facts

American investigators trying to find out more about Russia’s attack on the 2016 election sought information about whether anyone in Trump’s camp was involved. Subsequent reports have revealed that Trump’s campaign chairman for part of 2016, Paul Manafort, was giving internal polling data to a man linked with Russia’s military intelligence agency.

Other people in Trump’s camp, including adviser Roger Stone, were trying to make connections with those involved with the Russian interference, which Trump and his team welcomed and encouraged. Ultimately, however, the Justice Department did not charge anyone based on alleged collusion with the Russian election interference.