The radical right won by superior organizing, superior networking, a singular focus, seeding their ideas in a zillion conservative spaces, and a patient long game—aided by unlimited funds and resources and an electoral landscape that greatly favors them. It’s a real Goliath.
We don’t have money on our (pro-democracy) side, but we have wisdom & expertise & compassion & decent people we’d all rather hang out with.
Love your instinct to forge a “coalition of conscience.” We have to be at our best… and I’m trying to clean up my own act (have a LOT of anger right now at all the elites who were in on the con—not the voters who were conned— and helped him win) as well as network with people/orgs I trust.
MASHA GESSEN (who fled authoritarianism for America & might be eyeing the EU right now):
“Individual moral authority—is what threatens autocrats most. It's something that they can't capture.
"You can't buy it.
"You can't [...] take it by force
“You can't lay claim to it by title.
"You have either earned it or not.
"If you think back to the great liberation movements they've always had a person of moral authority or several people of moral authority as their organizing point of focus."
In 2025, we’re going to need to harmonize our skills & create safe spaces to communicate & organize…and stop beating each other up so we can better take on the forces that truly threaten us.
But they HAVE announced it. They are going all out on Project 2025. It was all over the news yesterday. If you haven't read Heather Cox Richardson's November 6 letter on Facebook, please do. The time for hand ringing about how it went down is over. It sucks, but we need to pivot to now. Those of us who still want a democracy need to come together and figure out how to stop this now. The fingers all need to be pointed at the way out of this, not each other.
The swing to right is now a global trend, which often means curtailment of human rights for some. LGBTQ, women, minorities, among others. Rights which have been struggled for over centuries. Is Trump fit to lead? Who will surround and influence him? How far back into the dark ages do we need to go? If this presidency looks like his previous one, many of us who are feeling devastated, are trying to prepare ourselves for laws that will favor corporations, cuts in funding for social programs that support people who don't have the income or resources to thrive in a profit driven system. Hopefully we will remember to reach one to another to help us endure what will come. Congress is not dependable and the supreme court is not very unbiased. Fear is in the air.
The no brainer, you saw the DEMs upsurp the process and it was downhill from there. I would encourage you to reach out to newly elected Pres. Donald Trump to see how you can serve, it's just another Dem crossing the aisle to become the One-ness and heal.
I agree, please reach across the aisle, this would help many of us heal & start unity & oneness! Call RFK and roll up your sleeves he needs your spiritual help! He is working to help our children just like you!
Marianne. You made many good points in your appearance on ABC. NOW they have you on, but I digress.
You are 100 percent right that it was anti democratic (small d) for the big D Democrats not to have had a real primary.
But I lost faith in the Democratic party long ago. I have heroes in the party, like my US Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. And, of course, I love Bernie, the socialist who caucuses with the Democrats and has run for president twice as a Democrat.
Another important voice in what is happening in our politics today is Robert Reich who was labor secretary for Clinton.
He is putting out a lot of information about how the money of the corporations gets into our government and suppresses social change. He is kind and gracious when he talks about leaving the Clinton administration. But clearly, he did not agree with the actions Clinton was taking to advance big money against working people.
His information explains how the corporations and (now oligarchs, as well) get their money into the system and how they go about using their money to wield their power in our government.
(I am cringing at the thought of how Elon Musk will control what happens in tech in the Trump II administration.)
What I say next will get ME hate in some quarters.
My husband is fond of saying, "Bill Clinton was the best friend the business man ever had!" And, we own a small business. But the part that will get me hate follows.
As a resident of Oregon, I live in the bluest of states. In the 30 plus years I have lived here, my recollection is that my state has always voted Democratic in the presidential election.
So both my husband and I backed Ralph Nader in the Clinton v Dole race and (gasp) in the Gore v Bush race. Why? Because in those particular races, there was no easily perceivable daylight between the Democrats and the Republicans. They were both bellied up to the troth of big money, lapping up as much of it as possible. And Oregon still went for Gore.
So, most of the time, my husband and I stay registered as Pacific Greens because that was the party Nader ran on. I like the idea of being a Green. When people like you, Marianne, and Bernie Sanders run for national office on the Democratic ticket, I change my registration. Vote in the Democratic primary. Then I change back. My husband does the same.
Marianne, if your efforts and those of others can get the Democrats to rise up and somehow beat the money of the corporations and oligarchs out of the Democratic party, I'm all in.
But it is very difficult for me to understand how that could be possible.
I don't understand why we need political parties. My understanding is that there was discussion about the danger of political parties among the authors of our constitution.
But here in the 21st century, this is where we find ourselves - with two very wealthy and powerful political parties. So, if my country is going to go down this path of we MUST have parties, I'll register with what is considered a third party to show my distrust of the corrupt, powerful two major parties.
That said, you are correct Marianne, we need to find a way to give WE THE PEOPLE a voice in our democratic process.
What we got now, well that ain't it.
Finally, to the gentleman who is writing in this space that spirituality and politics don't mix... That's what they said about Jimmy Carter, who actually worked in and out of politics to end poverty, disease and ignorance. His move while president to allow a tax credit for anyone who pays to take a an educational course at the post secondary level or beyond is still on the books. I benefited from that into my 40s. I am hopeful that as I grow older, perhaps I will have time to take more post secondary classes and still benefit from his tax credit.
My husband and I went to Plains, GA and attended his Sunday School lesson at Maranatha Baptist Church. I admire him for actively sharing how his faith gave him lessons for making love the center of his political policies.
The late and beautiful Tich Naht Hahn (sp?) who left us with innumerable spiritual teachings talked about having love for our political adversaries. He once said that many people could write a protest letter to George Bush, the elder. But, he also asked, how many people could write a love letter to him. You can see him in the famous picture from the 1960s of the Buddhist monk in Vietnam setting himself on fire to protest that country's civil war.
Did not the Romans attempt to forever kill Jesus of Nazareth in part because he got in their way politically?
Love doesn't end at our wallets or our politics. That is where we need it the most.
Thank you for all you do! You are a beautiful shining light of unity, truth and goodness. Please keep reaching to heal the wounded & to other side to heal our division! Sending love & strength as always!🙏🏼❤️
Marianne- You are the leader for "We're all in this together". Thank you, and we have your back. I have your back.
As a lefty who is busy on climate restoration, I saw the polarization that we lefty's were creating by raising millions of dollars and millions of hours to oppose 'them'. We naturally were echoing and modifying 'their' attacks on 'us'.
The result of the election showed me on Wednesday that I need to lead, with you and millions of others, a new phoenix, of Humanity Flourishing. We're a tribal species that evolved in circumstances where the tribe 'over there' was often truly out to kill us. Our brains will react with fear, and we can replace that fear with love and forgiveness. We must do that over and over and over until we die.
Marianne- thank you for being the nation's and world's outstanding political leader calling for humanity as a whole flourishing, for millennia to come. We're behind you. I'm behind you.
I believe the future of this country and the world rests with the collective consciousness of “The People,” not any government, party, particular system, organization or any particular issues you brought forth in your campaign. Doing the latter is merely more of the same.
“What it will take for the phoenix to rise” in its true meaning, I believe can best be achieved with your leadership to “forge a new, more soulful political conversation” that indeed can only be repaired by love.”
I’ve been a Dem for almost 50 years and this is the first time I voted for a Republican for president. My eyes were opened in December 2020 when I began listening to the alternative media about mRNA vaccines. I learned that they have been trying to get an mRNA vaccine to work against a coronavirus for ten years with no success. I also learned that with their animal studies the animals showed that they developed antibodies after they received the vaccine but when they were exposed to the coronavirus they died. This information was suppressed by the mainstream media then and continues to be suppressed to this day. It was at that time that I finally learned that the mainstream media is a propaganda arm of the global elite and I began using my critical thinking skills. I witnessed over the next four years the depth of the lies and propaganda of the mainstream media and the Biden administration. It was during this time that I became aware of RFK Jr’s work with Children’s Health Defense and others who were telling the truth about the vaccines while the mainstream media kept up their mantra of “safe and effective “ and “if you get the vaccine you won’t get Covid and the pandemic will end”. Unfortunately for the many millions of people who believed the propaganda and got the shots, they soon discovered that they got Covid. But instead of admitting that the vaccines were never studied for whether they would stop infection or transmission the elite changed the narrative, initially to “there are some breakthrough Covid cases despite having the vaccines” to later “we never said it would stop infection or transmission, we only said that you wouldn’t get so sick from it or die from Covid”. Studies have also shown the lie with this narrative and that information continues to be suppressed even now. The studies show that a person who got the shots are more likely to get Covid multiple times. Others who did not get the shots developed natural immunity when they got Covid the first timeand they are much less likely to get Covid again. There were doctors across the world who knew by March 2020 effective and safe treatments for Covid but that information was censored by the elite who own the mainstream media and physicians who were successfully treating patients with these protocols were ridiculed, fired and some had their licenses suspended or removed.Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx lied to President Trump and the American public about all of this. Read The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK Jr. if you want to learn the truth about what happened and what continues to be censored. Then in 2021 after Biden took office his administration immediately began threatening all social media platforms that they would take away their Section 230 immunity if they didn’t censor all truthful information about effective treatment for Covid and the severe side effects from the vaccines that immediately began to manifest in early 2021. Read the Federal Court decision issued on July 4, 2023 filed by the attorney generals from Missouri and Louisiana along with several others against the Biden administration if you want to see the evidence of the abuses of the Biden administration, their threats to the social media platforms and the capitulation by the platforms to their requests. Unfortunately that continues to this day on most platforms except X. When Elon Musk bought Twitter he exposed what the Biden Administration had been doing and exposed the “Twitter files”. While there have be hearings in the House of Representatives regarding these censorship issues since the republicans won the House in 2022, there hasn’t been much coverage of those hearings in the mainstream media. Prior to this election prominent Dems such as Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Kamala Harris have all criticized the citizens rights to free speech. Thank God Harris was not elected as I believe our First Amendment rights to free speech would have been ended. Unfortunately earlier this year SCOTUS would not affirm our rights to free speech by ruling that Missouri, Louisiana and the other Plaintiffs did not have standing in the free speech case I mentioned earlier. I could go on for hours about many other lies the mainstream media has been feeding us about other issues now and in the past.
Unfortunately for the country, the Dems are owned by the elites who control the mainstream media in this country and many others. For the Dems to have any relevance for me there will have to be a complete overhaul of the party. Unfortunately many of the republicans are also owned by those elites. As we all know there was no democracy exercised by the Dems since at least 2016 in their “selection “ of their presidential candidate. It became so obvious to everyone this year when Marianne and RFK Jr. were told before the New Hampshire primary that Biden was the “selection “ this year because he insisted to run for reelection. Then they decided to show his dementia by having a debate before the convention and immediately started saying that he will never win and they “selected “ their puppet candidate, Harris. The mandating of the Covid shots and the millions of injuries and deaths that have occurred with these shots have awoken enough people to realize that the Dems don’t even care if the American people live or die. They only care about controlling this country. That’s why me as a lifelong Democrat voted for President Trump.
If you are able to take an objective look at what he does in the next four years you might come to realize, as I recently have, that he is not the person the mainstream media has portrayed. In 2016 he didn’t know much about politics and he took other peoples advice about who to appoint to the thousands of positions that need to be filled in the government. Unfortunately many of the people giving him advice about who to appoint were looking out for their best interests and not the American peoples best interests. President Trump has learned a lot in the past eight years and he now has good people advising him who are concerned about the future of this country and its people. I have faith that RFK Jr’s involvement in the Trump administration will be a major positive influence. I believe that he is going to make America healthy again. He will expose the corruption of the federal agencies and get the corporate influence out of the federal agencies. I doubt that it will be easy but the team President Trump has working for him this time is determined to do their best to make this country great and make the lives of all Americans better.
Unfortunately I received a text from the new Gavin Newsom organization “For Democracy “. They are having a meeting today to begin an attack on “red states”. I hope the Dems will reject the “democracy “ offered by people like Gavin Newsom and instead of attacking fellow citizens, work with them for the greater good of all Americans.
Marianne, while I do not agree with your assessment of President Trump and your choice in candidates this time, I do respect your opinions, particularly about the Department of Peace, I hope you and others who are afraid of President Trump can have an open mind about the new administration and try to work with it. 🙏
I think the breakdown was at the very beginning when there was no debate between all those who were interested in running for President to then allow "the people" to decide who WE wanted to support. I don't like being told who to vote for, especially by the group that is preaching democracy. At this point, I don't see much difference in the two parties - it doesn't seem either care much about what the people want.
The radical right won by superior organizing, superior networking, a singular focus, seeding their ideas in a zillion conservative spaces, and a patient long game—aided by unlimited funds and resources and an electoral landscape that greatly favors them. It’s a real Goliath.
We don’t have money on our (pro-democracy) side, but we have wisdom & expertise & compassion & decent people we’d all rather hang out with.
Love your instinct to forge a “coalition of conscience.” We have to be at our best… and I’m trying to clean up my own act (have a LOT of anger right now at all the elites who were in on the con—not the voters who were conned— and helped him win) as well as network with people/orgs I trust.
MASHA GESSEN (who fled authoritarianism for America & might be eyeing the EU right now):
“Individual moral authority—is what threatens autocrats most. It's something that they can't capture.
"You can't buy it.
"You can't [...] take it by force
“You can't lay claim to it by title.
"You have either earned it or not.
"If you think back to the great liberation movements they've always had a person of moral authority or several people of moral authority as their organizing point of focus."
In 2025, we’re going to need to harmonize our skills & create safe spaces to communicate & organize…and stop beating each other up so we can better take on the forces that truly threaten us.
But they HAVE announced it. They are going all out on Project 2025. It was all over the news yesterday. If you haven't read Heather Cox Richardson's November 6 letter on Facebook, please do. The time for hand ringing about how it went down is over. It sucks, but we need to pivot to now. Those of us who still want a democracy need to come together and figure out how to stop this now. The fingers all need to be pointed at the way out of this, not each other.
The swing to right is now a global trend, which often means curtailment of human rights for some. LGBTQ, women, minorities, among others. Rights which have been struggled for over centuries. Is Trump fit to lead? Who will surround and influence him? How far back into the dark ages do we need to go? If this presidency looks like his previous one, many of us who are feeling devastated, are trying to prepare ourselves for laws that will favor corporations, cuts in funding for social programs that support people who don't have the income or resources to thrive in a profit driven system. Hopefully we will remember to reach one to another to help us endure what will come. Congress is not dependable and the supreme court is not very unbiased. Fear is in the air.
The no brainer, you saw the DEMs upsurp the process and it was downhill from there. I would encourage you to reach out to newly elected Pres. Donald Trump to see how you can serve, it's just another Dem crossing the aisle to become the One-ness and heal.
I agree, please reach across the aisle, this would help many of us heal & start unity & oneness! Call RFK and roll up your sleeves he needs your spiritual help! He is working to help our children just like you!
Marianne. You made many good points in your appearance on ABC. NOW they have you on, but I digress.
You are 100 percent right that it was anti democratic (small d) for the big D Democrats not to have had a real primary.
But I lost faith in the Democratic party long ago. I have heroes in the party, like my US Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. And, of course, I love Bernie, the socialist who caucuses with the Democrats and has run for president twice as a Democrat.
Another important voice in what is happening in our politics today is Robert Reich who was labor secretary for Clinton.
He is putting out a lot of information about how the money of the corporations gets into our government and suppresses social change. He is kind and gracious when he talks about leaving the Clinton administration. But clearly, he did not agree with the actions Clinton was taking to advance big money against working people.
His information explains how the corporations and (now oligarchs, as well) get their money into the system and how they go about using their money to wield their power in our government.
(I am cringing at the thought of how Elon Musk will control what happens in tech in the Trump II administration.)
What I say next will get ME hate in some quarters.
My husband is fond of saying, "Bill Clinton was the best friend the business man ever had!" And, we own a small business. But the part that will get me hate follows.
As a resident of Oregon, I live in the bluest of states. In the 30 plus years I have lived here, my recollection is that my state has always voted Democratic in the presidential election.
So both my husband and I backed Ralph Nader in the Clinton v Dole race and (gasp) in the Gore v Bush race. Why? Because in those particular races, there was no easily perceivable daylight between the Democrats and the Republicans. They were both bellied up to the troth of big money, lapping up as much of it as possible. And Oregon still went for Gore.
So, most of the time, my husband and I stay registered as Pacific Greens because that was the party Nader ran on. I like the idea of being a Green. When people like you, Marianne, and Bernie Sanders run for national office on the Democratic ticket, I change my registration. Vote in the Democratic primary. Then I change back. My husband does the same.
Marianne, if your efforts and those of others can get the Democrats to rise up and somehow beat the money of the corporations and oligarchs out of the Democratic party, I'm all in.
But it is very difficult for me to understand how that could be possible.
I don't understand why we need political parties. My understanding is that there was discussion about the danger of political parties among the authors of our constitution.
But here in the 21st century, this is where we find ourselves - with two very wealthy and powerful political parties. So, if my country is going to go down this path of we MUST have parties, I'll register with what is considered a third party to show my distrust of the corrupt, powerful two major parties.
That said, you are correct Marianne, we need to find a way to give WE THE PEOPLE a voice in our democratic process.
What we got now, well that ain't it.
Finally, to the gentleman who is writing in this space that spirituality and politics don't mix... That's what they said about Jimmy Carter, who actually worked in and out of politics to end poverty, disease and ignorance. His move while president to allow a tax credit for anyone who pays to take a an educational course at the post secondary level or beyond is still on the books. I benefited from that into my 40s. I am hopeful that as I grow older, perhaps I will have time to take more post secondary classes and still benefit from his tax credit.
My husband and I went to Plains, GA and attended his Sunday School lesson at Maranatha Baptist Church. I admire him for actively sharing how his faith gave him lessons for making love the center of his political policies.
The late and beautiful Tich Naht Hahn (sp?) who left us with innumerable spiritual teachings talked about having love for our political adversaries. He once said that many people could write a protest letter to George Bush, the elder. But, he also asked, how many people could write a love letter to him. You can see him in the famous picture from the 1960s of the Buddhist monk in Vietnam setting himself on fire to protest that country's civil war.
Did not the Romans attempt to forever kill Jesus of Nazareth in part because he got in their way politically?
Love doesn't end at our wallets or our politics. That is where we need it the most.
Put down the phone, switch off the TV, get out and talk to people.
Thank you for all you do! You are a beautiful shining light of unity, truth and goodness. Please keep reaching to heal the wounded & to other side to heal our division! Sending love & strength as always!🙏🏼❤️
perhaps we ALL need a truth and reconciliation event.
that may require a little time to heal ourselves then rest and willingness to engage.
I think it can be noted how the media was SO WRONG with their assessments of how close the race would be. Point- the media is out of integrity…
So glad you were on ABC
Praying🙏💕
Marianne- You are the leader for "We're all in this together". Thank you, and we have your back. I have your back.
As a lefty who is busy on climate restoration, I saw the polarization that we lefty's were creating by raising millions of dollars and millions of hours to oppose 'them'. We naturally were echoing and modifying 'their' attacks on 'us'.
The result of the election showed me on Wednesday that I need to lead, with you and millions of others, a new phoenix, of Humanity Flourishing. We're a tribal species that evolved in circumstances where the tribe 'over there' was often truly out to kill us. Our brains will react with fear, and we can replace that fear with love and forgiveness. We must do that over and over and over until we die.
Marianne- thank you for being the nation's and world's outstanding political leader calling for humanity as a whole flourishing, for millennia to come. We're behind you. I'm behind you.
I believe the future of this country and the world rests with the collective consciousness of “The People,” not any government, party, particular system, organization or any particular issues you brought forth in your campaign. Doing the latter is merely more of the same.
“What it will take for the phoenix to rise” in its true meaning, I believe can best be achieved with your leadership to “forge a new, more soulful political conversation” that indeed can only be repaired by love.”
You are correct, Marianne.
It's such a blessing to have your voice available and part of the process of transparency and "getting real". Thx!
I’ve been a Dem for almost 50 years and this is the first time I voted for a Republican for president. My eyes were opened in December 2020 when I began listening to the alternative media about mRNA vaccines. I learned that they have been trying to get an mRNA vaccine to work against a coronavirus for ten years with no success. I also learned that with their animal studies the animals showed that they developed antibodies after they received the vaccine but when they were exposed to the coronavirus they died. This information was suppressed by the mainstream media then and continues to be suppressed to this day. It was at that time that I finally learned that the mainstream media is a propaganda arm of the global elite and I began using my critical thinking skills. I witnessed over the next four years the depth of the lies and propaganda of the mainstream media and the Biden administration. It was during this time that I became aware of RFK Jr’s work with Children’s Health Defense and others who were telling the truth about the vaccines while the mainstream media kept up their mantra of “safe and effective “ and “if you get the vaccine you won’t get Covid and the pandemic will end”. Unfortunately for the many millions of people who believed the propaganda and got the shots, they soon discovered that they got Covid. But instead of admitting that the vaccines were never studied for whether they would stop infection or transmission the elite changed the narrative, initially to “there are some breakthrough Covid cases despite having the vaccines” to later “we never said it would stop infection or transmission, we only said that you wouldn’t get so sick from it or die from Covid”. Studies have also shown the lie with this narrative and that information continues to be suppressed even now. The studies show that a person who got the shots are more likely to get Covid multiple times. Others who did not get the shots developed natural immunity when they got Covid the first timeand they are much less likely to get Covid again. There were doctors across the world who knew by March 2020 effective and safe treatments for Covid but that information was censored by the elite who own the mainstream media and physicians who were successfully treating patients with these protocols were ridiculed, fired and some had their licenses suspended or removed.Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx lied to President Trump and the American public about all of this. Read The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK Jr. if you want to learn the truth about what happened and what continues to be censored. Then in 2021 after Biden took office his administration immediately began threatening all social media platforms that they would take away their Section 230 immunity if they didn’t censor all truthful information about effective treatment for Covid and the severe side effects from the vaccines that immediately began to manifest in early 2021. Read the Federal Court decision issued on July 4, 2023 filed by the attorney generals from Missouri and Louisiana along with several others against the Biden administration if you want to see the evidence of the abuses of the Biden administration, their threats to the social media platforms and the capitulation by the platforms to their requests. Unfortunately that continues to this day on most platforms except X. When Elon Musk bought Twitter he exposed what the Biden Administration had been doing and exposed the “Twitter files”. While there have be hearings in the House of Representatives regarding these censorship issues since the republicans won the House in 2022, there hasn’t been much coverage of those hearings in the mainstream media. Prior to this election prominent Dems such as Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Kamala Harris have all criticized the citizens rights to free speech. Thank God Harris was not elected as I believe our First Amendment rights to free speech would have been ended. Unfortunately earlier this year SCOTUS would not affirm our rights to free speech by ruling that Missouri, Louisiana and the other Plaintiffs did not have standing in the free speech case I mentioned earlier. I could go on for hours about many other lies the mainstream media has been feeding us about other issues now and in the past.
Unfortunately for the country, the Dems are owned by the elites who control the mainstream media in this country and many others. For the Dems to have any relevance for me there will have to be a complete overhaul of the party. Unfortunately many of the republicans are also owned by those elites. As we all know there was no democracy exercised by the Dems since at least 2016 in their “selection “ of their presidential candidate. It became so obvious to everyone this year when Marianne and RFK Jr. were told before the New Hampshire primary that Biden was the “selection “ this year because he insisted to run for reelection. Then they decided to show his dementia by having a debate before the convention and immediately started saying that he will never win and they “selected “ their puppet candidate, Harris. The mandating of the Covid shots and the millions of injuries and deaths that have occurred with these shots have awoken enough people to realize that the Dems don’t even care if the American people live or die. They only care about controlling this country. That’s why me as a lifelong Democrat voted for President Trump.
If you are able to take an objective look at what he does in the next four years you might come to realize, as I recently have, that he is not the person the mainstream media has portrayed. In 2016 he didn’t know much about politics and he took other peoples advice about who to appoint to the thousands of positions that need to be filled in the government. Unfortunately many of the people giving him advice about who to appoint were looking out for their best interests and not the American peoples best interests. President Trump has learned a lot in the past eight years and he now has good people advising him who are concerned about the future of this country and its people. I have faith that RFK Jr’s involvement in the Trump administration will be a major positive influence. I believe that he is going to make America healthy again. He will expose the corruption of the federal agencies and get the corporate influence out of the federal agencies. I doubt that it will be easy but the team President Trump has working for him this time is determined to do their best to make this country great and make the lives of all Americans better.
Unfortunately I received a text from the new Gavin Newsom organization “For Democracy “. They are having a meeting today to begin an attack on “red states”. I hope the Dems will reject the “democracy “ offered by people like Gavin Newsom and instead of attacking fellow citizens, work with them for the greater good of all Americans.
Marianne, while I do not agree with your assessment of President Trump and your choice in candidates this time, I do respect your opinions, particularly about the Department of Peace, I hope you and others who are afraid of President Trump can have an open mind about the new administration and try to work with it. 🙏
Spot on Marianne. 🙏🏼🕊️
I think the breakdown was at the very beginning when there was no debate between all those who were interested in running for President to then allow "the people" to decide who WE wanted to support. I don't like being told who to vote for, especially by the group that is preaching democracy. At this point, I don't see much difference in the two parties - it doesn't seem either care much about what the people want.
Absolutely. With you. Let us all be the change and return to civility with passion; educated discourse with mutual respect.