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gab13by13

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Sat Jan 18, 2025, 10:50 AM Jan 18

We Had A Chance, A Test, To Preserve Our Democracy In 2021, And We Failed [View all]

Immediately after the attack on the Capitol, numerous leaders of the Republican party publicly condemned the attack, publicly condemned Trump. The attack on the Capitol was an attempt to remove our democratic form of government. The atmosphere was ripe to punish those who were behind the coup.

We failed, and after a period of time every Republican politician was persuaded to back the insurrection, and every one did, except for Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney. We gave the insurrectionists time to regroup, time to escape.

Our country is now an oligarchy not a democracy, billionaires control our government. Oligarchies are not permanent, they are transitional.
There will come a time in the future when we, the American people, must once again make a choice. Do we want to throw out the billionaires and return to our democracy or do we want to become a country like Russia or Hungary?

Frankly, I am not convinced we have enough people in this country who want to fight to recapture our lost democracy. There are people today who do not understand that we lost our democratic Constitutional Republic.

I am ready to fight.


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