Good lord.

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Sometimes irony is also justice.

There was definitely a pedophile sex trafficking ring like the fictional one Trump ran on, except this one's real and DJT was the ringleader's best friend. Pedophilia has no basis in political or relgious affiliation.

He was always a racist criminal but now that the Epstein files could be released, he really needs an excuse to suspend the Constitution and avoid prosecution.

Meanwhile, if you're in a room with 100 random voters, about 30 are fine with scenes like these. We're the majority.

Call it authoritarianism, dictatorship, fascism or anything you want.

Whatever you call it, it kind of boils down to this:
Everybody just do what you're told. This handful of filthy lying savages in suits will decide everything for everybody from now on.

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I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

... everyone is capable of respecting the basic rights of others, even if we don't like each other. We have a foundation upon which we can build a proper civil society.

The world is flush with natural resources. There's much we can do.

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... with no mixed motives and within a framework of agreed upon principles of civil society, including religious rights and limits to any person's power over others.

It's not that complicated once you realize that under the right conditions — conditions that can be developed — almost ...

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... that harness the deceptions allowed for by Silicon Valley's digital matrixes.

We need clean information and the capacity to recognize lies. We need rational and undisturbed discussion about what public policies we want. We need community representatives who who advocate for our choices ...

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... only the extreme private wealth and other centers of power that claim divine authority and rights.

We need informed and rational discussion and policy-making led by a public that's undisturbed by bags of cash and by whoever can access and control the inner networks ...

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... and to peacefully organize to establish a more perfect union, this time with state power held by representatives that actually represent the neighborhoods, communities and regions in which they live, representatives who do not represent ...

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... in universal human rights and our underlying responsibility to each other and to the natural world, upon which we are all dependent, to peacefully organize to prevent the establishment of the police state sought by both religious and secular supremacists ...

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... over society by establishing a civil order that allowed all faiths to flourish but no pulpit to dictate public law. Public servants swear an oath to the Constitutional order. If their personal beliefs don't allow that, they are deceiving us.

Now is the time for all who believe ...

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... wielded by multiple factions of competing elites that claim some superior right to direct humanity's future.

After the centuries of the bloody religious violence of the Old World, a crucial advance written into the US Constitution sought to prevent the imposition of theocratic rule ...

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It favored a democracy that distributed formal political power not to all people, although political power was more evenly and widely distributed under the new US system than in the constitutional monarchies of Europe — there would be no king but power was and still is overwhelmingly ...

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The US Constitution had very significant weaknesses. It left politically powerless very large parts of the population including the indigenous societies, women, the enslaved, and in many places men possessing no deed to land.

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