Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: A Question for Elizabeth Warren... [View all]delisen
(7,349 posts)and the current recognized president is carrying out policies friendly to the very country corrupting our elections.
How long can we and our democracy last if we do not take action to remove or neuter the power of a president who is in the service of a determined and so far successful adversary.
One of the last actions of the Republican-controlled House was to remove sanctions against the Russian oligarch Deripaska so that a Russian beachhead could be established in the American state of Kentucky, controlled by Mitch McConnell, Russia is poised to benefit economically from from the building a wall we don't want and don't need- a wall designed to cut us off from our neighbor Mexico.
Think about the walls Soviet Russia built around eastern European countries and how they came suffer and decline through the Cold War era.
If Russia had come in with weapons and bombs to build a wall between the US and Mexico and the Republican-controlled senate did not declare war on Russia and fight back-what we we do?
Our first task while deciding about a course of action in this undeclared war is to acknowledge that we are already in one.
Most of our current crop of candidates have yet addressed the war-and the clock is ticking.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided