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Do Not Be Afraid. Do Not Tremble. Do Not Waiver. Do not doubt either the goodness of our people or the possibilities for our future. Do not let small men with tyranny and malice in their heart (@realDonaldTrump) or hypocrites with no core (@VP) make you afraid for our future
or of your countrymen and women. Do not let the fascists, racists and conspiracy theorists make you afraid of your neighbors or the strangers who could be your friend. We should all be grateful that we have been chosen by this rancid and dangerous hour to stand up and fight.
What we do now matters. Our Capitol is occupied by a cabal of small and low men and women who have betrayed all of us, the American experiment, their oaths and basic decency in service of a corrupt and malignant cult of personality that is vandalizing our principles, ideals,
Inheritance, future and fundamental goodness. 200,000 of our country men and women are dead. At least 150,000 of them could be alive but for Trumps lethal lying and the immoral; supine complicity of his collaborators and enablers. Let us resolve to rise up and strike down
Trumpism. Let us put it down with righteous anger and fury. Let us resolve to never let this happen again. Let us do our duty as American citizens. Let us be conscious that we are called to safe action when we consider the blood, sacrifice and courage of ordinary people who
Stood their ground on a field in Lexington and Gettysburg. The men who stormed the beaches of Normandy and dropped from the skies over France to crush fascism are smiling at our cause. The men and women who taught the world the meaning of the words human dignity as they
Protested segregation, absorbed the beatings and marched across the Edmund Pettus bridge are watching and judging us. We are in the right and for the right. We are fighting for the good. Trumpism is UNAMERICAN. It is illiberal, demagogic,dishonest, cruel, corrupt and disgusting
Let us strike it down. We will. Vote. @ProjectLincoln @JoeBiden @votevets @actblue @RVAT2020 @crookedmedia @prioritiesUSA @PodSaveAmerica @PaulBegala @JamesCarville @davidplouffe @davidaxelrod. Have joy in this fight. RBG is with her husband again. She is arguing with Scalia
and meeting Washington and Lincoln. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas are there. Susan b Anthony is there and so is Elise Wiesel. A great champion of freedom has arrived in heaven. Her work is done. Her burden is now ours. Let us honor her legacy by doing our duty.
FIGHT, REGISTER, VOTE. I DISSENT are the most American of words. Thank you Madame Justice. May your memory be a blessing. We all know that it is.
Tumbulu
(6,292 posts)And I am so grateful for it.
Thanks for posting this!
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)You said a mouthful, Steve. Fighting like hell is all we have left. "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose."
We have to kick these greedy, immoral bastards out of Washington for good!
Hekate
(90,867 posts)BlueDawn
(892 posts)Uplifting, inspiring, true. I appreciate this more than anyone could ever know.
Bravo, Steve Schmidt.
dchill
(38,565 posts)radical noodle
(8,015 posts)He really does use the best words!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)SunSeeker
(51,746 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Thanks for spreading this, Nevilledog.
We are in the right and for the right. We are fighting for the good. We should all be grateful that we have been chosen by this rancid and dangerous hour to stand up and fight.
Yes.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Everything he's done can be reversed. Lets hope someone with deep pockets can uncover and expose him for this , and end this nightmare.
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)Martin Eden
(12,880 posts)"Let us honor her legacy by doing our duty."
Steve Schmidt is a patriot, and a lifelong Republican until Trump came along. I am sure he is not alone in that regard, and that gives me hope for the possibility that when the scourge of Trumpism is defeated Americans can work together for a better future.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)ecstatic
(32,749 posts)Justice Ginsburg's passing and open seat. Nice to see that he's being consistent.