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In reply to the discussion: I Live In Sweden! [View all]SleeplessinSoCal
(9,278 posts)35. Big problem to overcome is those who insist we're a republic and not a democracy.
Last edited Mon Jul 5, 2021, 09:38 PM - Edit history (1)
I believe the mission statement of the Heritage Foundation listed so far to the right, that no argument can be won on facts.
"The Heritage Foundation was founded on February 16, 1973, by Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner, and Joseph Coors. Growing out of the new business activist movement inspired by the Powell Memorandum, discontent with Richard Nixon's embrace of the "liberal consensus" and the nonpolemical, cautious nature of existing think tanks, Weyrich and Feulner sought to create a version of the Brookings Institution that advanced conservative activism."
Brookings had been instituted in 1916. And has never lurched to the left as the neo-fascists marched determinedly rightward to counter democracy and the sacrifices of every veteran across nearly 2 and a half centuries. Such a young country to fall by blind hatred. War seems inevitable. They want a hot war. We don't. Can Pacifism defeat Fascism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation?wprov=sfla1
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Yeah. But Dora Duck Dynasty and her husband Bubba are never going to understand that.
Scrivener7
Jul 2021
#1
In my dad's case as 1st gen Ukrainian-American he was a Democrat, and mostly liberal. 👍
electric_blue68
Jul 2021
#43
If we can't get blue states to do this, how can we get the nation as a whole to do it?
Kaleva
Jul 2021
#6
Sigh...this is such an Over Generalization. I'm 68. So many, if not all...
electric_blue68
Jul 2021
#46
Last time I was there, the neo-Nazi scene was very out-in-the-open, and there were lots of them.
tenderfoot
Jul 2021
#22
In dark times past, my wife and I were paying $16,000 annually for COBRA coverage...
hunter
Jul 2021
#65
Cons always accuse Social Democrats as shooting for a utopia, that can never exist
LiberalLovinLug
Jul 2021
#21
Sounds great, but my wife had to ditch a lifelong Swedish friend who went full QAnon
JCMach1
Jul 2021
#31
Big problem to overcome is those who insist we're a republic and not a democracy.
SleeplessinSoCal
Jul 2021
#35
i've been to denmark twice. it was awesome. i live in milwaukee. built on german socialism.
pansypoo53219
Jul 2021
#50
we had 'sewer' war early 1900 i guess. 1st socialist mayor + we became #1 in #2 selling compost.
pansypoo53219
Jul 2021
#68