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Dennis Donovan

(26,879 posts)
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:03 PM Nov 12

PoliticsGirl is back.


Nov 12, 2024 The PoliticsGirl Podcast
I still can’t exactly explain what happened with the 2024 election, but it does appear as if Trump and his dangerous, extremist allies have won. I’m a big believer in our institutions, but I also spent the past week trying to figure out how they could have all failed us so badly. I understand the sentiment to want to disengage. To find someone to blame. To point fingers and to close the door on working with anyone who isn’t in your immediate group, because you feel as if they’re the only people you can trust. But this idea that organization and community and goodness can’t stand up to any of this is fundamentally untrue. In many ways, America as we knew it might be over, but the ideas of democracy, human rights, civil rights, and knowing right from wrong, are not over, and if we want any sort of future, we can’t lay down now. That is exactly what these wanna-be authoritarians want us to do. And as far as I’m concerned, they don’t get anything they want.

The mainstream media has let us down, so we need to support those doing independent work. The extremists have been able to shape the mindset of a fair amount of this nation because the far right invested in their voices. Give people like me a chance to fight back. If you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible.
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PoliticsGirl is back. (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Nov 12 OP
Thank you! summer_in_TX Nov 13 #1
... Rhiannon12866 Nov 13 #2

summer_in_TX

(3,267 posts)
1. Thank you!
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 12:55 AM
Nov 13

Good ideas never die and they cannot be killed. Try, and they become the most yearned for of all desires.

Democracy may be persecuted and forced out for awhile. But it will rise again.

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