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usonian

(23,909 posts)
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 12:05 PM Oct 2024

Help someone break free from the cult. Tim Walz says we can do it.

Last edited Sun Nov 3, 2024, 11:22 AM - Edit history (1)

Tim Walz makes GREAT points about republicans wanting to break free from the cult, but needing either social permission (as from Liz Cheney) or from one of the top issues that chap their hide.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219592590

29 republicans share why they switched.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/republicans-voting-for-kamala-harris-share-why



Versus this garbage.



Buzzfeed posted reasons why 29 republican readers switched. Good Reading. SHARE.
Republicans Voting For Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump Are Sharing The Reasons Why, And This Makes So Much Sense

https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/republicans-voting-for-kamala-harris-share-why


WANT MORE? I have a comparison for easy sharing.
https://democraticunderground.com/100219477450
(copied right here)

COMPARE AND SHARE.

Find out what whacks your relatives, friends, colleagues or social media acquaintances.
And let them know what’s in store, and how to beat the bastards down.


GOP agenda:
• A society that excludes and criminalizes necessary health care and personal sexual preferences.
• A society that warps the constitution to establish one religion and encourage violence against others.
• 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, encouraging violence against them.
• Destruction of public schools and the opportunity they provide to all, minorities included.
• Funding of private, religious schools to increase class division and unequal access and opportunity.
• Banning of books.
• Devastating climate change
• Leveling the Gaza waterfront to create a Hotel Strip
• A deadly all-out war on the rights of women.
• More welfare for the rich.
• Private health care companies replace medicare and deny needed treatments -- basically "death panels"
• 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. Mob rule ( warms Putin's heart )
• Unbridled 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.
• Leadership by people with the lowest morals of all. Grafters and grifters. Not to mention convicted felons!


KAMALA’S AGENDA (as I see it)
Official issues page: https://kamalaharris.com/issues/
• Support of women's health care and sexual preferences.
• Separation of religion and state, and protection of minority rights.
• Americans of every race, color, religion, gender, sexuality, and income honored and treated fairly.
• The wealthy pay their damn fair share.
• Acceptance and embrace of blacks, Jews, Muslims, lgbtq+ , homeless, and women of strength.
• Zero tolerance of hate and violence.
• Strong action to reduce gun violence.
• Vigorous support of public schools and the opportunity they provide to all, minorities included.
• Getting private, religious schools off the dole.
• Slashing the divide in education, opportunity, internet access and access to the levers of power.
• Banning book bans!
• A local and global "Manhattan Project" to counter climate change
• Guaranteeing the rights of women.
• Support of Medicare, so that some day, we can have UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, SINGLE PAYER.
• Taking profiteers of "Medicare Advantage" plans to task.
• Restoring the Supreme Court to one that serves all people, and is not a religious tribunal or den of thieves.
• Worker's rights and benefits increased and guaranteed.
• Safety nets bolstered for homeless, jobless, and other needy people.
• Holding social media accountable for calls to violence that they harbor or actively foster.
• Sensible gun control
• Putting authoritarian regimes across the globe on notice.
• A better society by POSITIVE EXAMPLE


Full platform (PDF)
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024_Democratic_Party_Platform_8a2cf8.pdf

And if you're tired of the orange mug. LOOK.
Flood the zone with REAL PEOPLE
https://democraticunderground.com/100219470335
And I'll copy it right here.

THIS





They're REAL PEOPLE, not Cosplay Bond Villains.





What to do? Ask Wednesdays. And do it RFN!!

https://democraticunderground.com/100219646297
🚨 Election Calendar, Activists' Lists, and Donation Links (updated daily)
(2 Days to Go)





And if your dingbat neighbor has a Trump yard sign, post one of these across from it in your yard.


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Help someone break free from the cult. Tim Walz says we can do it. (Original Post) usonian Oct 2024 OP
Not enough doom and gloom. Heh. BootinUp Oct 2024 #1
I'm cutting back a little on my DU'ing. usonian Oct 2024 #2
Thank you for your efforts, appreciated. Nt BootinUp Oct 2024 #3
Kicking for the evening. It's simply MADAM President versus MADMAN President. usonian Oct 2024 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Pink Hyacinth Oct 2024 #5
Kicking for the morning. If I had a hammer, I'd usonian Oct 2024 #6
K&R DemonGoddess Oct 2024 #7
Breaking through the effects of gaslighting on many Trump supporters is difficult but not impossible andym Oct 2024 #8
Funding of private, religious schools is for indoctrination -- to create compliant, excitable soldiers for oligarchs. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2024 #9
Kicking for Thursday morning and a reminder usonian Oct 2024 #10
Kicking for Saturday. usonian Oct 2024 #11
Kicking for Sunday usonian Oct 2024 #12
Kicking for Monday evening. usonian Oct 2024 #13
You should post this list everyday between now and Election Day! kimbutgar Oct 2024 #14
I keep it kicked. Others are welcome. usonian Oct 2024 #15
Kicking for Wednesday usonian Oct 2024 #16
The republicans are socialists Blue Full Moon Oct 2024 #17
Kicking for Thursday. usonian Oct 2024 #18
Kicking for Sunday. usonian Nov 2024 #19
Let them die in the cult from the kool aid they have drank. republianmushroom Nov 2024 #20
Kicking for Monday usonian Nov 2024 #21

usonian

(23,909 posts)
2. I'm cutting back a little on my DU'ing.
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 12:49 PM
Oct 2024

Besides a gigantic trash list and a surprising ignore list (I just looked at it), people are still posting negative opinion pieces, and I think of DU as an activist forum. Quite simply, can you name another?

So, Coach walks into the locker room and says “we’re doomed”. NOT.

I live alone and have to motivate myself to do absolutely everything. There’s no room for negative energy in my life.

Optimism doesn’t always work, but pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Send coffee. ☕️, not downers.

Thanks for the reply!

usonian

(23,909 posts)
4. Kicking for the evening. It's simply MADAM President versus MADMAN President.
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 07:18 PM
Oct 2024

Do whatever you can.

Response to usonian (Original post)

andym

(6,053 posts)
8. Breaking through the effects of gaslighting on many Trump supporters is difficult but not impossible
Wed Oct 23, 2024, 10:50 AM
Oct 2024

Key is to have unassailable non-partisan sources that they can not easily dismiss.
Here is a website that rates new sources that they can be shown: https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/
Perhaps the most reliable unbiased source for info is stated to be usafacts.org.

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
9. Funding of private, religious schools is for indoctrination -- to create compliant, excitable soldiers for oligarchs.
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 01:22 AM
Oct 2024

usonian

(23,909 posts)
10. Kicking for Thursday morning and a reminder
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 10:09 AM
Oct 2024

The Opera Lounge ...
https://live365.com/station/Bianco-s-Opera-Lounge-a27807

Will be playing Gotterdammerung by Wagner, at 7PM Pacific time.
Gotterdammerung translates to "Twilight of the gods" and let's sunset the wannabe "God King" with our votes and those of others.



NOT IN THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Trumpster to the dumpster.

usonian

(23,909 posts)
13. Kicking for Monday evening.
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 09:17 PM
Oct 2024

Did the hate hurt someone you know?
Puerto Rican?
Black?
The list goes on.

The differences are startling.

usonian

(23,909 posts)
19. Kicking for Sunday.
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 11:16 AM
Nov 2024

Maybe if a friend exiting church thinks how debauched and sacrilegious the GOP nominee and his platform of spite, "take from the poor and give to the rich" are, they might see the light illuminating the darkness of the cult of the golden calf-wit.

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