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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFuck You Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain and the rest of you RW assholes
And fuck you - everyone and anybody who voted for any R in the last 30 years.
Fuck you, assholes.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)better
(884 posts)A society which limits respect and power to certain groups (oligarchs) is a despotism.
The Declaration of Independence very clearly dictates the proper and obligatory response.
We go vote them out. The RW fantasy of a glorious bloody uprising is not the answer. Refighting the Civil War isn't either.
better
(884 posts)But the sole correct or acceptable response is still to throw off such government and provide new guards for our future security. If doing so by voting works, then great. I sincerely hope it does.
But fixing it by voting not working does not change our duty in the face of this undeniable reality.
We should not forget that, within the lifetime of my child who is not yet old enough to drive, we have voted them out.
When we did manage to fix some things, they lied to the American people about what we fixed to win control of state legislatures, redistricted to ensure that the minority of voters got the majority of representation, went on a voter suppression rampage, relentlessly dug in their heels to prevent us from fixing anything else they could by means of 632 filibusters, shut down the government, held the full faith and credit of the country hostage, stole a seat on our highest court, rigged an election in collusion with a foreign power, elected a president who lost the popular vote for the second time in two decades, and then set about breaking once more everything we did manage to fix, and then some.
And again, that was all within the part of life Americans just now coming of age to drive are old enough to remember.
I'm no right-winger, and an uprising is certainly no fantasy of mine.
But it is becoming ever clearer that one is demanded of us, no matter how much we may long to avoid it.
MFM008
(19,827 posts)Are going to pay in 11 months.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)benfranklin1776
(6,453 posts).....and now we see clearly these craven bootlicking tools: Collins, Murkowski, and McCain are his lesser minions willingly sacrificing the lives of the elderly the sick and the poor, and, indeed, our country and democracy itself, just so they could steal money from all of us and funnel it to rapacious corporations and billionaires. The essence of evil incarnate on hideous display.
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)I say VOTE!!!!!!!!!!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)They are republicans after all, that's what they do!
Those 3 and that asswipe Jeff Flake just had to get their palms greased with the blood money stolen from sick kids and elders first!
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Response to stopbush (Original post)
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BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)who - for ANY reason other than medical, other emergency or otherwise being denied the privilege of voting - did NOT vote For Hillary Clinton in the GE in 2016!
That's the bottom line.
No matter WHAT Rs in Congress would have done, Hillary would NEVER have signed such a bill.
Yes, there IS a BIG difference between Ds and Rs. Anyone who STILL does NOT "get" that should not be on DU.
And f*ck them!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)FUCK YOU GOP!!!
All y'all SUCK.
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)BluegrassDem
(1,693 posts)Moderate Republicans always roll over at the last minute and can't be trusted. Meanwhile, our red state Dems didn't take the bait.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts).. that were contemplating retirement will slither into the night taking with them what they stole from the American people to enrich themselves, taking with them their government funded healthcare that they denied others, taking with them their generous government pension.... I sincerly hope that the universe will repay them in kind. As for those that remain in office they will be held accountable by the voters in 2018, 2020.
salster
(15 posts)You asked for it and now you have it.
popsdenver
(14 posts)Definition of KLEPTOCRACY
"government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed"
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Another phony.
samnsara
(17,656 posts)..#JUSTIFYIT
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)Martin Eden
(12,881 posts)stating FUCK YOU very much.