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In reply to the discussion: A NYT opinion column that nails it. [View all]ancianita
(39,598 posts)76,510,127 of trump voters out of 346,134,190 equal 22% of the nation. The other 269,624,063 did not vote for trump, and that number rises every minute of every day.
We must not keep speaking of that 22% as "who we are." That 22% are the stupid, mindless, power loving, deceived, fact-free, fearmongering, non-reader bigots of America.
While I agree with John Stuart Mill who said,
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
Inaugural Address at St Andrew's (1867)...
Yet and still, in 78% of "who we are" still lies the millions of daily acts of resistance, along with inertia or even apathy that still works to keep bad men from doing irreparable harm, even as their oligarchs use that 22% to fight their war of attrition.
We must loudly reject all domestic and global media who equate the vast majority of Americans with America's worst minority.
We must also keep a vigilant, close watch on that dumb, stupid, mindless, power loving, deceived, fact-free, fearmongering, non-reading, bigoted 22%.
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