The Lincoln Project: Wake Up

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25. Sadly, too true.

My first ever reply/post, though I have lurked for years. As a Canadian, I always thought it inappropriate to comment on American politics, as we also have an ugly racist history. 66 years as a socialist, feminist, atheist (and in some circles 'that mouthy broad') shaped my political views daily. Some have moderated with time, while others have become even more determined. I watched and read and cried about the American civil rights movement, through the eyes of your media. Like you, I remember they day JFK was assassinated with sadness and horror. I marched with others in front of Edmonton's city hall, in solidarity with the anti-VietNam war protests. I cursed Nixon and that shit eating grin as he stood on the steps of the helicopter waving like a hero rather than the criminal off to his privileged life. But Reagan changed the world. He ensured that the poor of the world would be cannon fodder and slave labour forever. Neo Libs and neo cons divided up 90 % of the pie and their unlikely to be magnanimous about it now. And 911 became the excuse to create the police state to enforce it. The biggest bright spot was the election of Obama, but they kept a knee on his neck. And now......a daily deluge of 'what the fuck now's. To get back to this latest and powerful Lincoln Project ad, that demographic will kill you and yours if they aren't excised. Sadly, I fail to see how anything less than secession from that wide middle swath of your country can save you. They've got to go. I might be wrong but I don't think so.