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Horse with no Name

(34,206 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:26 PM Jun 2025

I used to believe we had the best government that could be had

But if it is so weak that one deranged man and his minions can dismantle everything we have ever collectively achieved, we need a better form of government.

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I used to believe we had the best government that could be had (Original Post) Horse with no Name Jun 2025 OP
It is not the government's fault WSHazel Jun 2025 #1
You're letting the voters off the hook... WarGamer Jun 2025 #2
You Have Concluded Correctly. Overcoming Belief Is The First Step. Embracing Reality Comprises The Rest Of The Steps. MayReasonRule Jun 2025 #3
My advice is..... multigraincracker Jun 2025 #4
We did, 250 years ago they never imagined a Fox News, X or a dozen billionaires doc03 Jun 2025 #5

WSHazel

(632 posts)
1. It is not the government's fault
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:33 PM
Jun 2025

45% of our country wants this malevolent chaos. Sometimes a society pushes for its own destruction, and this might be one of those times.

WarGamer

(18,249 posts)
2. You're letting the voters off the hook...
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:36 PM
Jun 2025

This is what they voted for... in EVERY single Swing State.

We need to do a better job of SELLING what our side can offer.

MayReasonRule

(4,011 posts)
3. You Have Concluded Correctly. Overcoming Belief Is The First Step. Embracing Reality Comprises The Rest Of The Steps.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:40 PM
Jun 2025

Things are always as they are and so rarely as we would really like them to be that analysis reveals it almost never happens.

Our fledgling representative democracy is still pedestrian at best.

We are each it's weakest link.

The reasoned among us will never desist because the reasoned understand that freedom is reason's child and that in it's absence our freedoms cease to exist.

Here's to the restoration of our freedoms through our nation's embrace of Reason's Rule!

doc03

(38,826 posts)
5. We did, 250 years ago they never imagined a Fox News, X or a dozen billionaires
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:45 PM
Jun 2025

with more wealth than the other 90%.

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