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Itrue's avatar

Thank you so much for your insight. It is incredibly interesting and helpful—though actual forward looking action is still somewhat elusive. I look forward to your further analysis, as I trust it will help us work toward concrete corrective action.

K. Kerrigan

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Carl Selfe's avatar

Now is our moment—take action against this harmful government. Covering up a pedophile ring. Ignoring court orders. Blatant corruption. The poor, the needy, and children are being abused—by our government. In the streets we must protest outright crooks and the pedophiles until after their shooting us starts, until we go down or we oust tyrants. I made 54 protest signs, and will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this second batch, and share them as far as you can.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/more-free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs

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Lynne's avatar

So many of my friends and I are gobsmacked. How did this happen we ask over and over. And we read, we examine, we look to people we trust for answers. And we keep coming back to Project 2025. It is their declaration to put the capper on their antebellum efforts. It resembles documents from the confederacy. Michael’s analysis goes deep and is the only one that makes sense to me.

Trump is and will always be an incompetent, sick, narcissistic, sociopath. How perfect he is as a puppet to revive white Christian Supremacy. His incompetency and vengeance-seeking madness are the perfect tools to destroy the model of government we thought was ours forever.

Thank you both for landing on the need for coalitions and community. I actually feel more hopeful, more committed to act.

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Jessica Holliday's avatar

In addition to Albion's Seed and American Nations, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell contains fascinating descriptions of the persistence of cultural values. All three really excellent.

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Mike Podmaniczky's avatar

Colin Woodard, “American Nations”, and if you like reading, “Albion’s Seed”, David Hackett Fischer. I would also like a discussion of “uniparty.” You touch on it, but do not point out that it was how we limped along with divergent visions, when other countries descended into banana republicanism. Come to think of it, that’s what is happening to us thanks to a functionally illiterate sociopath.

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