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2,060 years ago 226 years ago h/t Infidel 753 As the Trump cult like base, which is predominately conservatives, Evangelicals, and republicans circle their wagons around their totally self absorbed and narcissistic leader the rest of the nation is well aware of the truth in the quotes above. America has a choice to make in 2018 and 2020. Either to recognize the threat from within and cut it off completely at the ballet box or, prepare for an America that no longer represents our founding principles and indeed will be in direct conflict with freedom and individual liberty. The choice is ours. Responsibility rests with us. The Real and True Patriotic Americans. Do we have the cojones to Take Back America from the cons whose desire is to limit liberty to conform with their myopic and religionist vision of what liberty means?

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Trump has again managed to make it all about Trump. We can only watch in hopeful anticipation that Helsinki will be the explosive seed that results in his demise. Why the American Ambassador to Russia and cabinet members have not resigned is a source of puzzlement. Perhaps the only explanation is that any sense of integrity is dead in Republican politics. Why the party he represents continues to stand behind his sorry ass is the billion dollar question. Why the legitimate American media couches their criticisms in polite language escapes logic. Trump is a cancerous abscess growing on America's heart and soul. The question we must answer for ourselves is do we have the WILL to excise this cancer. Future generations will live with the answer to this question.

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Trump intends to bring about the collapse of the liberal international order, in its commitment to open societies and its institutions. Trump is effectively changing the way America does business.  He is changing how our allies and the rest of the world perceives us. Very litle is positive. The New York Times - Some near-forgotten anniversaries are worth commemorating. One hundred years ago — Bastille Day, 1918 — Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest son, Quentin, was killed in aerial combat at the Second Battle of the Marne. Twenty-six years later, Quentin’s oldest brother, Ted, also died in France, after landing at Utah Beach on D-Day. Quentin and Ted are buried side-by-side at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer. It’s a moving sight for everyone who still believes in the cause for which they and their brothers in arms fought and died — above all, the idea, possibility and preservation of a free world, anchored and inspired by America but not sub...

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Donald J. Trump has been identified as America's worst president -- Ever. And he proves it daily. See another of his attacks on the legitimate press. Which serves to again highlight his abject ignorance and anti Americanism. President Trump’s penchant for diminishing the fourth estate didn’t wither on British soil. “Fake news,” he riffed at various points during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May — the better to shout down all the accurate reporting about his unhinged behavior and pronouncements about the United States and its most pivotal allies in the world. Kristen Welker of NBC News asked the president if his fractious relationship with NATO allies provided the “upper hand” to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the upcoming summit in Helsinki. “See, that’s such dishonest reporting — of course it happens to be NBC, which is possibly worse than CNN,” Trump said. Then he boasted about his exploits with the NATO countries. The slight aimed at...

The following Notes on Nationalism,  pened by George Orwell, have continued significance today in the USA. Especially given the direction of our federal government in the Era of Trump  and  the Christian fundamentalism that is growing . It is doubtful those who most need to consider the wisdom expresseed in Notes on Natioanalism will read and seriously consider what Orwell is saying. Nonetheless, if his words influence even a few to become more active in fighting tghe clear and present danger of a growing nationalism in our country this effort will have been worth it. Somewhere or other Byron makes use of the French word longeur, and remarks in passing that though in England we happen not to have the word, we have the thing in considerable profusion. In the same way, there is a habit of mind which is now so widespread that it affects our thinking on nearly every subject, but which has not yet been given a name. As the nearest existing equivalent I have chosen the w...