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usonian

(26,591 posts)
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 11:54 AM Apr 2024

Ask young people to choose a future.

An inclusive society where everyone helps each other, where leaders speak to tyrants rather than for tyrants, or one of dogma, division and control.

Here is the future the GOP wants for you, and has sought for years to deliver.
You must choose wisely.

• Government dictates what you read, your religion and your private life. Government monitors and controls women.

• Americans pitted against each other along lines of race, color, religion, gender, sexuality, and income. Vilification of blacks, Jews, Muslims, lgbtq+ , homeless, and women of strength, with increasing violence, even murder against them.

• Gaza waterfront razed to make hotels. (per Jared Kushner)

• Devastating climate change.

• A deadly all-out war on the rights of women.

• More welfare for the rich.

• Private health care companies deny needed treatments to save money. (Death panels are here!)

• The wealthy pay even less in taxes.

• Every civil right is eroded by clown judges living in the 18th century rewriting the constitution.

• Worker's rights and benefits reduced in order to create greater profits for businesses.

• Safety nets removed, so that homeless, and jobless people are left to die on the streets.

• More, more, more of culture war.

• GUNS, everywhere, with no limitations or requirements. Kids get them freely.

• Minorities and women blamed for every imaginable blip.

• Support of authoritarian regimes across the globe, who eagerly imprison, "re-educate", murder and commit atrocities on others.

• Lies, hate speech and threats are welcomed on "social media" and given support by government officials.

• Medical care and prescription drug costs skyrocket. (and more ... )


This is not fear-mongering. It's reading from history and quoted statements.

"Staying at home" because Hillary Clinton wasn't "perfect" gave us a train wreck hate-mongering profiteer.
Learn from history.

We are now in a time when much of what's posted and published is generated by A.I. and bots.
Looters with computers know which ONE of your buttons to push that will get you to do their bidding.

It's like a date, people. No one is perfect, but the wrong choice will land you in the hospital or the bottom of a river.

• There are two alternatives.
• Ask which you want.
• You can't ride the fence, because it's covered with barbed wire.




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Ask young people to choose a future. (Original Post) usonian Apr 2024 OP
People need to understand we won't get to course-correct in 2026 and 2028. Efilroft Sul Apr 2024 #1

Efilroft Sul

(4,462 posts)
1. People need to understand we won't get to course-correct in 2026 and 2028.
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 01:18 PM
Apr 2024

Any election under a Trump presidency will put all other authoritarian voting methods to shame. There is only one way out of a Trump presidency and restoration of the old order under these rigged voting conditions, and that involves violence. Protests in the streets won't cut it when the Insurrection Act is invoked. Things will get worse. And nobody else is going to come to our rescue.

Irony: Freedom fighters will be insurrectionists.

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