"This powerful, good nation is in trouble...."

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/08/quote-of-the-day-2584/

Quote of the Day
June 8, 2020 at 1:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

“This powerful, good nation is in trouble. The root cause is division and anger purposely created by Trump. The next President will need four years of national reconciliation. We need to restore American values. We need to address racial injustice.”

— Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, on Twitter.

[SoonerPride]

1. Sadly I think 40% of the country doesn't want reconciliation. They want war.

I think the trumpists want bloodshed. I really do.

I don't think there is ever going to be a semblance of a civil society until hatewing radio and Fox News are bought and format changed.

Can't Soros buy up that shit? He supposedly has more money god.

[Talitha]

4. "I think the trumpists want bloodshed."

I do too.

And as soon as one of them sheds a drop of blood by the action of one of us, they'll cry and scream and play the victim - just so WE look bad. Bunch of baby-whiners.

[Tumbulu]

6. Sadly you are correct

And all this brutality from the police is ready to be echoed elsewhere.

It is their plan.

[warmfeet]

15. I am prepared.

Most dotard supporters don't even consider this to be a possibility.

Most liberals and progressives I know, are very well prepared - this has been a long time coming, after all.

The repiggies are biting off a great deal more than they can chew.

[hurple]

8. Absolutely

They are just itching to start hunting libtards.

And, yes, this all falls completely at the feet of the right-wing noise machine.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Well Barry, you were in charge of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

As director of ONDCP, McCaffrey wrote and published the first "National Drug Control Strategy".[47] The book-length white paper proposed a comprehensive 10-year plan; profiled drug abusers and trends in youth drug abuse; listed health consequences; estimated the cost of drug-related crime; recognized that illegal drugs remain widely available; presented strategic goals and objectives for demand and supply reduction and measures of effectiveness; and proposed a comprehensive approach including initiatives aimed at youth and initiatives to reduce drug-related crime and violence, to reduce health and social problems, to shield U.S. frontiers, and to reduce drug availability; and asked for resources to implement the strategy

Here's his pamphlet https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/162206NCJRS.pdf

[Skittles]

3. just curious but

how is a problem supposed to be addressed if no profiling of the users is done? There are more white drug users than black drug users so I'm not sure what point you are making.

[Beartracks]

9. Profiling drug abusers doesn't automatically mean "racial profiling."

[Pepsidog]

5. Will not happen unless we deal with Fox.

[Tumbulu]

7. And more importantly hate radio

Which started it all.

[SoonerPride]

10. 💯

[Pepsidog]

14. So true.

[murielm99]

11. I believe that we should encourage Joe Biden

to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. That would take care of a lot of the hate radio and Fox.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. I sincerely appreciaate this Gen McCaffrey. But where the f have you people been? for almost 4 yrs?

[kentuck]

13. I don't know if it is on purpose or if it just comes natural to Trump.

He will divide the entire country before he is through. Families, friends, churches, the military, the CIA, the FBI, all the institutions, policemen, even Republicans.

[Captain Stern]

16. We are a powerful nation. No doubt about that.

But, are we a good nation? I have definite doubts about that.

Actually, I don't think we are a good nation. We're not a bad nation either....just a nation.

[ffr]

17. Or we are within our rights to fuck 'em, like they've fucked us.

Pardon my French. But I'm beyond reconciliation with traitors.