I'm afraid of finding out what is really going on here.

[PatrickforO]

97. We may yet save our republic. There is hope.

We cannot give up. Oftentimes, we don't realize the enemy is exhausted, overextended. All we must do is keep fighting, keep resisting, keep educating our friends and neighbors.

I belong to an IONS group, and we were talking just yesterday about the funeral of Elijah Cummings. Many members of our group had teared up at the speeches, all of which were good. Then a person said that we need to get our spiritual mojo back. Consider this: in the Civil Rights movement, from Birmingham to Selma to Montgomery and beyond, the organizing force was basically African American churches, and especially the women.

They took their belief in the doctrines of Christ - decency, charity, love, kindness, mercy, taking care of the weak, fairness, justice - and they organized a whole movement. And it was a movement that changed a nation. This is the last gasp of the racists and the white supremacists.

The oligarchs got too greedy. They moved too soon. It would have taken another twenty years for them to completely rot us from within. Our institutions are holding.

When our people take power again, we need some REAL progress on things like healthcare and climate change, but more importantly we need to get back our moral high ground. After their behavior the GOP, if it survives, NEVER gets to take the moral high ground. They have proven themselves reprobate - morally bankrupt.

And the billionaire parasites? The oligarchs? They are little, narrow-minded people who drool with lust for power and money. Let our government restore a 90% tax rate for them. AOC is quite right. Every billionaire represents a failure in policy. Every one. We don't need them.

We're gonna win this one, folks.