America, the diminished

[yallerdawg]

What Trump has wrought.

Source: Vox, by Ezra Klein

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A list like this can go on. It is a measure of our diminishment how much is left off it — how many outrages and disappointments have already faded from memory. Six months into his term, Trump’s policy achievements are few and thin, but he has coarsened our politics, shown the power of shamelessness, undermined our faith in each other and ourselves, modeled behavior we would punish children for exhibiting, and implicated all of us in the running fiasco of his presidency. He has diminished the country he promised to make great.

Read it all at: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/3/15910508/america-the-diminished

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[BigmanPigman]

1. Our flag needs to be flown either upside down or at half mast.

Upside down as a sign of distress and half mast because the country of our founding fathers is dying or already dead.

Everytime I hear or sing the songs America The Beautiful or The Stars Spangled Banner I cry. They do this at the protest marches and I always get teary. I am protesting and resisting to save what's left of my country and will continue to do so for as long as I physically can.

On that note Happy Independence Day!

[Paka]

2. K&R

I'm just grateful to be out of the country and not have to feel the full weight of the burden.