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I think you have causation reversed: A significant number of people see what is going on as genocide so that they can opt out of hard choices at home. It's not an empirical evaluation; it's an emotional position adopted to feel good about oneself.

Cracking skulls.

A coalition means you're not going to get everything you want.

Yea man, we love The Constitution over here. Societal values still up for interpretation, though and progressives haven’t found the reigns. Conservatism will endure, guaranteed.

Anyway, Harris campaigned to create policy for lowering taxes to expand opportunity for financial mobility and attack the wealth gap, and did it in such a way without inspiring a classic GOP pushback that frames the Dems as attempting to punish the wealthy.

The Protest Vote isn’t activism Threatening to withhold votes, become a non participant isn’t activism Anyone who promotes a campaign to withhold votes for any reason is on the side of suppressing the vote and should be shamed out of any conversation re: influencing and asserting political power

Extremely irresponsible use of your platform.

It is exhausting trying to explain to the purists that the Democrats do not have to win MAGA voters in rural red states. They just have to peel off single-digit changes among indies, and get some of their own centrist voters to come back to the fold.

1957

Johnson knew that vision and purpose are foundational to persuasion. The Johnson Technique: An incredible, potent mixture of persuasion, badgering, flattery, threats, reminders of past favors and future advantages.

State of the Union January 17, 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson youtu.be/BPTxdNqNP_I?...

April 5, 1968 By dusk, 6,000 troops were mobilized in Washinton, DC, including units from the Army, Marine Corp and the D.C. National Guard. Martin Luther King had been in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, campaigning in support of striking sanitation workers when he was murdered at his hotel

Daisy Girl Ad - Sept 7, 1964 Johnson’s presidency marked a turning point in how media influenced leadership and public opinion. This shift was most evident in the 1964 "Daisy Girl" advertisement, a shocking ad that aired only once yet left a lasting impact. youtu.be/riDypP1KfOU?...

TX politics 1880-1920: A complicated web The gen landscape: To the right, the Bourbons, deeply tied to railroads’ profit, convict labor, and mineral lease exploitation. To the left, Populists tied to the Farmers' Alliances, opposed to convict labor and to any outside capital in TX Ag and TX Oil

Vietnam Acting on the belief that Hanoi would eventually weaken when faced with stepped up bombing raids, Johnson ordered the U.S. military to launch Operation Rolling Thunder, a bombing campaign against the North. Operation commenced on February 13, 1965

Johnson drove social engineering to new heights with his War on Poverty and Great Society. This included legislation for public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, and aid to education

The Johnson family home, known as the "Texas White House" in Stonewall, Texas

Salute

ChatGPT is the equivalent of a dog scooting its asshole across the carpet threads of your brain