There is only one thing that can save America.

[kentuck]

The Truth.

The truth about Afghanistan. The truth about Covid. The truth about vaccines. The truth about the insurrection of January 6th.

We cannot heal as nation until we confront these stark facts.

The war in Afghanistan is ending. After twenty years and thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, the quagmire is ending. The sucking sound you hear is the Defense industry holding their breaths. Their scam is about to end.

Joe Biden has been in the Presidency for 7 months and he will be their scapegoat. The previous three Presidents will mostly escape scrutiny. The people may see it differently than the media and the Defense establishment?

Covid-19 is a pandemic. It can kill you. It is better to listen to doctors and experts than friends on Facebook. There are those that have made it a political issue and they have made it worse. More people are dying because they do not trust the vaccine and refuse to take it. They prefer remedies and cures found on social media.

As for the January 6th attack on our Capitol, it was a domestic terrorist attack. People were terrorized. People were afraid they were going to die. Some people did die. These terrorists threatened the lives of numerous elected leaders because they were following their Cult Leader. There were people in Congress that were complicit and assisted them in the attack upon the symbol of our democracy. We cannot sweep it under the rug. It must be exposed.

We cannot heal as a nation until we confront these truths.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

1. Amen!

[secondwind]

2. K&R

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Truth + Justice...

No healing, no peace until justice is more common than not.

But it does start with truth.

K & R

[kentuck]

5. Excellent point!

[FailureToCommunicate]

16. Yes! This!

[certainot]

42. 1500 unchallenged coordinated radio stations make it impossible to have a fact-based discussion abou

about any topic that the right wants to distort.

until the left/dems/progressives stop igoring RW radio and force the ad industry to break up the monopoly there will be no fact-based national or local discussions about anything.

they sit in their think tanks (here and in russia) creating alternative realities and made-to-order constituencies and when they see opportunities to distort/derail/hijack the facts in a national discussion (or local - the recal effort in CA, blaming local dems for katrina, etc) they just feed those 1500 radio stations. used to be all they had to do is feed limbaugh the big stuff and his 600 stations would spread it to the other 1000 and they'd repeat it until those were the 'facts' and the reasons democrats or protestors are doing such an such is they want to steal your vote, or raise your taxes, or bring communism.

all of that is free for republicans. until democrats boycott the crap out of rw radio or get 87+ university and pro sports teams off 100s of those stations or start using AI to analyze it on a large scale - or all of it - the ad industry will continue as is and it will continue to be impossible to have fact-based discussions about anything important.

facebook gets all the attention but unlike the rw radio monopoly it is part of the free speech spectrum. fix the radio and those internet lies, like fox's, have a lot less weight

[certainot]

56. it can't survive if the 87+ universities start pulling their support for RW radio

any hint of regulation sets off hysterical idioiic sreams of "free speech!", even among ignorant democrats

those 87 and more have no excuse not to look for apolitical alternatives

when one starts the others will be shamed into following, advertisers will head for the hills, and the ad industry will have to break it up

[Pepsidog]

50. Yes we are spiraling backwards as a country.

[spanone]

4. K&R

[Arkansas Granny]

6. K and R

[gab13by13]

7. The MSM controls the narrative,

The MSM hides the truth.

[Karma13612]

17. And they are not held

Accountable.

Truly disgusting.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. Congress has about 15 months to investigate and reveal the truth, after that...

After the 2022 midterms, the truth is going into hibernation for a decade or so.

[panader0]

9. Truth was the biggest casualty of the trump years.

From before he took office there were outright lies, deceptions and cover-ups. Then there
was "the largest inaugural crowd in history" and "alternate facts" and it spiraled out of control.
I've forgotten the final Wapo count of his lies, but it was over a dozen a day. One week after his
interview with Woodward where he tells about how horrible covid was going to be, he declared it
a Democratic hoax at one of his rallies. The interview was not aired until months later.
It all needs to come into the light.

[kentuck]

10. Lies became acceptable under Trump.

They finally stopped counting at approximately 30,000.

His reasoning was that the was competing with the MSM. They were the "enemy of the people".

[certainot]

44. trump rode limbaugh and 1500 radio stations, with assists from fox and soc media but trump, like

bush would not have gotten anywhere near the white house without 1500 unchallenged coordinated radio stations making them acceptable

[OldBaldy1701E]

61. With all due respect

Lies have been the bread and butter of this society for a lot longer than the last four years. They just stopped trying to decorate them so that they are more palatable in recent times because they know we won't do anything about it. Well, not anything that they have to worry about at the moment anyway. Hell, Faux News admitted in court that they are not real news, and yet they are still allowed to use the word 'news' in their name. Lies are so common in this society that I am surprised when I hear the truth about anything.

[FakeNoose]

18. Yes of course, but Obama had a chance to end it

Obama could have brought everyone home in 2011 or 2012. Getting OBL in Pakistan should have been the end, but instead we had another endless surge. Obama allowed himself to be bamboozled by the military because he wanted to win a 2nd term. I think he would have won anyway, but keeping our troops in Afghanistan was a mistake.

[Binkie The Clown]

11. For the immediate future, the only truth that matters is the truth of climate change.

We worry about COVID and terrorists, but in the next 50 years climate change will kill more people than all the pandemics and terrorists put together.

[johnthewoodworker]

12. Republican/Nazis are dumb shits. Truth has no chance with these morons.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. We usually don't heal. We just invent new narratives and move on.

Why tinker with a successful formula? We need a people's government re-elected, in office. Don't do anything to risk losing it, even if it feels good. I'm just saying truth is not the criteria. A progressive incumbency is the metric of our success.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

14. .

[IronLionZion]

15. The truth will set us free but not the ones hell bent on spreading lies

people are poisoning themselves with horse meds because they don't trust American institutions.

[KS Toronado]

19. The biggest problem with real TRUTH in this day & age is

how in the hell do we get FQX, newsmax, infowars, etc to tell it???????? Plus if we had a way to make them
tell the truth instead of constant lies, would more repugs stop voting them in when they realize all that
reQublicOns have is lies and no ideas to make America better.

[kentuck]

20. People know the truth when they see it.

They either accept it or reject it. They may reject it because they desire it to be something else? And sometimes reality is too strong to twist into a narrative.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. All true Kentuck. Just not at all sure we have the will. Too many want to sweep under rugs. n/t

[kentuck]

22. I think we should try to be optimistic.

That the truth will prevail. Not just someone's idea of the "truth", but the facts that people accept as reality. The truth is obvious. It has no need to obfuscate or to try to conceal.

[Evolve Dammit]

27. I'm just not anymore. If I see some of this happening, or justice dispensed for the last 5 years, I

may find some renewed optimism. Just can't at present. I wish us all luck.

[soldierant]

51. I'm not any more either. I know too much about history ...

and about how much of what we know as history is flat lies - including lies accepted as truth or at least uncontested (or unsuccessfully contested) by people who knew they were lies - until they became part of history accepted as true.

Why else would Republican legislatures pass laws forbidding truth to be taught in their schools' classrooms?

[Wounded Bear]

23. K & R...for truth...nt

[Richard D]

24. I would add to that . . .

. . . climate change and global warming. If we don't truthfully, quickly, and decisively deal with that, all else will be burnt away.

[kentuck]

26. It is on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs...

I am certain.

[Richard D]

31. Yes

Safety.

[Escurumbele]

25. Actually, there are two things needed to save the country, one you already told, "truth", the other

maybe more important after the "truth" is known is "accountability", without the 2nd one the first could turn into a weapon because people will stop believing in the rule of law, and for some who have not realized it already, they will realize there are people with immense privilege who can get away with murder, that the law only works against those who are not in power.

If accountability does not come to those who deserve to pay for their crimes the truth will only anger the rest of us, and that will hurt Democracy even more. No "accountability" makes "truth" useless.

[kentuck]

28. You make a good point.

There are those that see others get away with their lies and deception and they attempt to do the same. They begin to believe that they will not be held accountable for anything. They become lawless. In my opinion, we see that now in some elected officials.

[Evolve Dammit]

29. I believe that you are correct in the connection between the two.

[MiHale]

30. Let's hope the truth doesn't die...

Laying shriveled up and blown into a corner.

No justice, no hope.

[scarytomcat]

32. yes all true

one other thing is the rethugs are rigging elections at the state level and controling counts
they have stolen our electoral process at that level in many states and are continuing to make it harder to vote. They have taken away majority rule.

[hadEnuf]

33. Trump supporters and the GOP do not care one bit about the truth .

They are on a mission to destroy this country if need be in order to seize political power and dominance, and they don't care who they hurt or kill in order to achieve it.


The only thing they need is to be eradicated as a politic party.


We've wasted enough time trying to talk and reason with these rabid extremists. Any further forays into that nonsense only makes us look like milquetoast fools.

[Chainfire]

34. Too much of the nation prefers a comfortable lie to and uncomfortable truth.

People don't want the truth. That is the root of the power of the Republican Party. The Republicans give them someone to love and someone to hate; what more could a man ask for?

[Snackshack]

35. Nope.

President Biden obviously has a full plate right now with Afghanistan/ Pandemic/ now Ida and a 100 other things. But there are 1000’s who work in DOJ/ FBI/ IC/ LE he needs to direct the appropriate heads to remove all past precedent in the handling of investigations of previous administrations bad acts. Jan6 and the Pandemic must be investigating fully. 1 was an attack on our country the other cost the lives of 640,000+ Americans. The gloves must come off.

[overleft]

36. What you have posted is the truth. The lies must end.

[hamsterjill]

37. So very well said!

My two cents as to COVID - - -

The CDC needs to reassert itself as the authority. Right now, the CDC has lost all credibility. We need better and more accurate information about COVID. Who gets it, why are some who are vaccinated still dying, what is being developed beyond the current three vaccines to combat it, and what the future really looks like.

As you said - some real honesty and truth.

[AllaN01Bear]

38. a whole lot of truths that have been buried for a long time need to be exposed.

[llashram]

39. it seems, so far

that there will be no such confrontation forthcoming. Politics won't allow it. I can only hope the leadership I voted for will find a way to hold the terrorist Republikkkans accountable.

[CaptainTruth]

40. To save America, defeat all Republicans, everywhere.

[ffr]

41. I like this idea. Let's start in this direction.

Put the children in the corner at the small people table, while the adults govern.

[kentuck]

43. If you can't hold them accountable in the Courts, hold them accountable at the polls?

The truth is important in itself. People need to know what happened. However, there has to be some accountability.

[ffr]

45. I agree 100%. But we're democrats, so we can do more than one thing at once.

Get to the truth and wipe the republican party out.

[Magoo48]

46. I agree with all of your points.

That said, I would place the truth about the Climate Catastrophe before anything else we could place upon this list.

[Joinfortmill]

47. Yup. History will judge Biden kindly.

[BlueJac]

48. K&R

[bluboid]

52. Well put! Thank you!

[lark]

53. I hear you and agree.

Sadly the media is trying to slant things for the controversy, not telling the hard truth of 20 years doing basically nothing to advance a country that doesn't want to move forward. Trying to make it like Biden did something bad, but of course completely exonerating TFG for being the actual cause of this.

Our only hope on Covid is companies requiring vaccination for their ee or taking other significant steps to disallow or punish the unvaccinated. The courts need to rule against these asshole nazi governors, putting their folks at risk with anti mask mandates for the enrichment of the monoclonal antibody people and private schools. People also respond when family and friends get sick and get vaccinated (all but the true crazies). Unfortunately, there are too many crazies who refuse to do the right thing, so we need businesses and the courts to get busy or we could be in very sad shape for a long time.

Jan. 6th, I am so with you in hoping the perfidy of the repug co-conspirators in the attempt to overturn a legal election is brought to life beyond a shred of doubt.

[The Wizard]

54. I worked for a trial lawyer

whose tag line was "Everything changes once the lying starts." As a prosecutor he was a one man organized crime task force.

[Blue Owl]

55. K&R

[Poiuyt]

57. I wouldn't call the Jan 6 attack as just a domestic terror event.

If it were just a bunch of Proud Boys, I'd agree. But when the primary instigators of the attack were from the highest levels of our government, with the goal of overthrowing the election results to keep Trump in power, I'd call that sedition at the least and possibly treason.

I think it's infuriating that Trump and his fellow insurrectionists will get off scott free with only some low level foot soldiers spending time in prison.

[True Blue American]

58. That post needs to go viral, all over the net!

[the_sly_pig]

60. Then the question becomes...

How to respond. The willfully ignorant already have a plan as to how they will deal with the libs. History repeats itself over and over and over. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

[betsuni]

62. Many countries have enduring myths about themselves that aren't true and the U.S. is a big one.

People like myths.

[SKKY]

63. Rank, stark, 100% unadulterated truth. Absolutely agree.