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Samrob

Samrob's Journal
Samrob's Journal
November 1, 2022

Please MSNBC, stop with the Dem pundit bemoaning. They never talk upbeat. They talk defeat! WTF

Their wasn't one uplifting moment listening to MSNBC with Mika a while ago. Everyone agreeing that crime is an overriding issue. I defy one of the pundits to ask the viewers to think about the last time an act of crime affected them or their neighborhood. No one is talking about the crime that affected the entire nation on Jan 6 and the days leading up to it and following. I am sick of all the whining. Get the hell out there and ask 10 people you know to go to the polls with you! Drive them if you have to. The soul of the nation that Biden ran to save was buried when Trump was elected. We need to birth a new soul, more just, fair, and fiercely democratic than the one Trump and his ilk buried. We can do that from now and on election day.

I am moved to offer a modified section of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

“…our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

It is for us the living [voters], rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us …that we take increased devotion to that cause for which [many] gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that [those] dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

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About Samrob

Staunch advocate for voting rights. I couldn't take it any longer and have joined 3 public boards within the last week to add my voice to the quest for a voting rights. Lifetime Democrat. Retired Federal medical researcher.
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