Posted on 10/08/2018 9:16:38 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Get Angry, and Get Involved
The midterm elections are the smart way to make your influence felt.
By David Leonhardt
Opinion Columnist
Oct. 7, 2018
If you’re not angry yet, you should be.
Let’s review: Decades ago, a businessman built a fortune thanks in large measure to financial fraud. His corrupt gains helped him become famous. He then launched a political career by repeatedly telling a racist lie, about the first black president secretly being an African.
This lie created an audience in right-wing media that made possible a presidential campaign. During that campaign, the candidate eagerly accepted — indeed, publicly sought — the illegal assistance of a foreign enemy. When national security officials raised alarm with Congress, before Election Day, leaders of the candidate’s party refused to act.
The foreign assistance appears to have been crucial to the candidate’s narrow victory. He won with only 46.1 percent of the popular vote, less than 16 losing candidates over the years had, including Mitt Romney, John Kerry, Williams Jennings Bryan and the little-remembered Horatio Seymour.
Having won, the new president filled a Supreme Court seat that his party had stolen with an unprecedented power grab. This weekend, the president finished filling a second seat, through a brutal, partisan process. During it, the president, himself an admitted sexual molester, mocked victims of abuse.
Together, the two new justices have cemented an extremist Republican majority on the Supreme Court. It has already begun acting as a kind of super-legislature, throwing out laws on voting rights, worker rights, consumer rights and political influence buying. Now, the court is poised to do much more to benefit the wealthy and powerful at the expense of most Americans — and the planet.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat
Mr. Leonhardt, quit whining and come up with some positive ideas that could help you win at the ballot box. Until then, just shut up.
No, first lie was "Opinion columnist". . . it should read "Lying Propaganda Columnist for the Democratic Party".
Truth in labeling counts.
Title should be “Lose your mind and run around screeching in the streets”.
We need to pick up the gauntlet, and respond calmly with reasoned demonstrations of what is true & verifiable in the human experience--and what made America "Great" in the first place.
The hysterical demonstrations against Judge Kavanaugh, should indeed wake up America to the threat posed by those with whom the Times identifies.
Isn’t that what they’ve been doing for two years now? Hasn’t worked out too well for them.
Sigh....
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