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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA country reeling from right wing intimidation finally fights back......yes this one!
An excellent read, enumerating the indignities we as a nation has suffered at the hands of the right wing.
"Lets recount only some of the bullying we have as a country endured without sufficient consequences for the felons just since the last bit of shared prosperity we lost in 2000:"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/10/1268837/-A-Country-Reeling-from-Right-Wing-Intimidation-Finally-Fights-Back
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)We gotta take out country to a new place. Our local Dem club met today. Registrations in our county are way up for Dems and no declares and way down for the pub-folk. Other people are unhappy about things. We have candidates up and running against local House reps -- long entrenched and strong -- but, vulnerable because of the gov. shutdown.
Please, volunteer to register people and then volunteer to get out the vote. We can do this!
Thank you.
calimary
(81,238 posts)A mere 500 votes was the initial difference between Al Gore and george w bush.
And isn't it in Virginia where there's one state legislature race in which the Democrat is leading by only TEN votes?
Every vote counts!!! PARTICULARLY in a midterm election where so many people don't bother - and this one's so critical!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(297,194 posts)all over the country througout these GWB Revelations!
"Maybe Chris Christie's Bridge to Chaos is finally that metaphorical stone fence of right wing belligerence; the high tide of decades of Right Wing intimidation before it was routed by a stalwart, belatedly competent, defense pushing back on all sides."
"...has started--ever so slightly, but perceptibly--to come crashing down amidst righteous outrage, competent prosecution and persistent inquiry of Christie's revenge politics."
To the good "competent and persistent" men and women who have come together to slowly but surely uncover what's really going on behind .. "Christie's abject failure". The US corporatelazymediawhore$ strike again.
But, thanks to Shawn Buborg and his calibre.. and all those who have been steady as she goes, like John Wisniewski, Pat Foye, and Loretta Weinberg I am forever grateful!
To "reclaiming our National Soul", Shraby.. thank you!..
Excellent Diary from sparko @ kos!
malaise
(268,968 posts)Rec
bemildred
(90,061 posts)He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)And enabled by many Democrats.
ananda
(28,858 posts)I'm so sick of idiotic thuggish rightwingers.
underpants
(182,788 posts)bookmarking and rec'ing
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)Kick, kick, kick.