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Miles Archer

(20,679 posts)
4. Yeah...I hate to admit it, but I think that sums it up
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 12:33 PM
Thursday

I have never been a Lee Greenwood Jingoistic "God Bless The USA" kind of guy.

But I DO love America. Why wouldn't I? I was born here, and have lived here all my life.

But I do not respect "denial" or "apathy" in ANY form.

Nor do I respect any who are cheering Trump on.

And, as we both know, DU consists of people who refuse to sign up for either of those two extremes.

It gives me hope, but I'll be damned if I know what it will take to change the people I flagged above.

I think people will have to feel pain DIRECTLY...not some white dude watching Fox and seeing a brown person deported.

FARMERS are in the news. Maybe a FARMER needs to lose a family farm that's been in the family for generations.

And the second, and most important half of that is they NEED TO KNOW THE PAIN WAS CAUSED BY TRUMP.

REPUBLICANS...ESPECIALLY that mascara nightmare VANCE...love to parrot "THE FAILED POLICIES OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION."

We're a YEAR into Trump's "presidency" and they are STILL banging that drum.

We're at a WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE CROSSROADS.

Get hurt, PERSONALLY, and acknowledge that TRUMP is the one who hurt you.

Honest to God, I do not see ANY other way out of this for the apathetic and gleeful.

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