Don't ever let the same people who are taking a sledgehammer to America's moral credibility tell you they are champions of liberty.

Loving America means fighting for Americans, not screwing them over. That was true 249 years ago, and it is true today.

Make them own the massive upward transfer of wealth they passed to help their billionaire friends.

Make them own the dirty air they are subjecting Americans to through rolling back clean energy policies.

To stop this, it is imperative that we make Republicans own their policies at every turn.

Make the Republicans own their cruel cuts to Medicaid.

Make them own the children who will cry with hunger because of their cuts to SNAP/food stamps.

Put simply, Republicans will try and convince Americans to build their patriotism on a foundation of willful ignorance.

Over the next year, as we approach the 250th anniversary of American independence, Republicans are going to do everything they can to wrap themselves in the American flag, portray themselves as champions of liberty, & persuade us to forget how many people their policies have hurt.

We must not let Trump and the Republicans pull Patrick Henry’s shtick.

The reason for this, more than anything else, is that Henry was probably the most brilliant orator in 18th century America. He sounded really good. Henry had many stupid beliefs, he said them with a level of conviction and passion and gravitas that made people forget that his beliefs were stupid.

Despite Henry’s record of being a blatant hypocrite, he is still fairly well-regarded by history.

Why did Henry fight so hard against ratifying the Constitution?

Well, there were many reasons, but two BIG reasons were 1) because Henry didn’t think Americans should have to pay taxes to the federal government and 2) because he didn’t think the Constitution did enough to protect slavery.

However, a decade later, in the 1780s, when the Federalists fought to create a system of government that would make the United States less vulnerable to foreign attack via the Constitution, Henry fought tooth and nail against ratifying the Constitution.

A great example of this is Patrick Henry, who famously declared “give me liberty, or give me death” in 1775, and was one of the foremost advocates of separation from Great Britain in 1776.

Henry did not think twice about sending American boys and men to fight and die in war in the 1770s.

In 1775 and 1776, many of those who were the most gung ho about independence would later become some of the most ardent opponents of bolstering the powers of Congress to create a sturdy system of post-war peace.

Unfortunately, U.S. politicians acting w/ flagrant disregard for the consequences of their actions isn't new. It’s as old as the Declaration of Independence itself.

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Don’t let them. It IS this bad. The rage you feel is valid. Hold onto it. Make them own it again & again & again.

Good catch. Whatever is the way to screw Cuomo over the most on the RCV ballot, NYC voters should do THAT.

The upcoming NYC mayoral race is a HUGE test for rank-choiced voting (RCV). Every other candidate but Cuomo is BEGGING voters to rank Cuomo last. That’s good, because Cuomo is trash.

If Cuomo wins anyway, it’s not going to do any favors for RCV. If Cuomo loses, I will sing RCV’s praises to the sky.