Is it "healing" or is it "pulling an Oliver North"/"pulling an Elliott Abrams"? [View all]

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Named in honor of two of the guys who undermined the law to give government resources to the Contras and then were pardoned so "the country could move forward"?

Healing:
* Accountability
* Investigations
* Sanctions where there need to be sanctions
* Denouncing white nationalists, no, that does not mean conspiracy theories about antifa. No, that does not mean making people who say black lives matter the "other side" of that. A component of healing is... denounce. white. nationalists.
* A declaration that the president is not selected by God. We need to call to reject this modern version of the divine right of kings. Time is a factor here, healing will mean do it before January 20.
* An open denouncing of baseless conspiracy theories like QAnon and especially that the election was stolen. If one conspiracy theory is denounced, it needs to be that the election is stolen
* An honest discussion about why certain protesters are treated with kid gloves
* How does *this* not happen again?

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Pulling an Oliver North/Pulling an Elliott Abrams:
* Mass pardon the people who stormed the capitol
* A lot of "but both sides" for things where there weren't both sides
* Reinstate Trump's Twitter account
* Reinstate the fired police officers tied to the slaying of Breonna Taylor
* Clear Trump's impeachments from the public record, find a way to un-impeach him. For both times.
* "... uh, that's it", is probably what they'll say

We need to make it clear, healing does not mean "pulling an Oliver North"!