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marmar

(77,073 posts) Fri Jan 31, 2020, 12:59 AM Jan 2020

"Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either...

...flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death."
--Saul Alinsky

Seems like we're much closer to the latter. Hard not to be discouraged these days......

But we keep fighting.

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"Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either... (Original Post) marmar Jan 2020 OP

Exactly Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 #1

Exactly, marmar, and I for one keep trying to wrap my head around what kind of world Scotch-Irish Jan 2020 #2

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,919 posts)

1. Exactly

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Fri Jan 31, 2020, 01:00 AM

Jan 2020

As frustrating as it is keep fighting the good fight.

Scotch-Irish

(464 posts)

2. Exactly, marmar, and I for one keep trying to wrap my head around what kind of world

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Fri Jan 31, 2020, 02:53 AM

Jan 2020

we have gotten ourselves into.

I blame faux news 100%. They have created the cult that destroyed democracy.

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