Fucking unbelievable. Folks, I think our democracy may be dead.

[The Liberal Lion]

89. My friends, comrades and country-persons

We are, imho, beyond the point of waiting for heroes to save the day AND faith that the system will self correct. It's not happening. Our elected officials are either pure evil (Republicans) nazis or spineless cowards unwilling to use their powers to right this great wrong. In this DU forum many times I find myself expressing the unpopular opinion. I've been sanctioned and chastised by others here with opinions as well as by the admin. But you know what? Someone has got to call a spade a spade and disabuse the complacent of the notion that everything is going to ok because someone else is going to take care of it. It's not happening. Everyday our fair land sinks further and further into depravity, and even those who know better do little but complain, and still go about their days as though everything is going to be ok. It's not ok! Our enemy lives in the White House. Our enemy controls the Senate, the Supreme Court and most of the state legislatures and Governor mansions. Meanwhile our elected allies sit in the people's House and concoct not ways to resist and defeat, but ways to compromise and find common ground! There is no compromise with evil! Friends, comrades, country-persons and true patriots there will be no heroes to save the day, and the system is not self correcting, it is morphing into ugliness and pure evil. Our fair land is filthy with disease. These times are not normal, and the actions required from true patriots can no longer be normal, but rather they must be extraordinary. We must be our own heroes, and we must take hold of the courage to do what must be done. The system is broken beyond repair. It must be discarded and replaced. I can not tell you what to do. I lead myself and myself only. However, you know what must be done and what you can do. Do it, and leave those tasks to someone else no more.