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Al Bellenchia's avatar

“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”- Martin Luther King Jr.

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Diane Battista's avatar

The Fourth of July is today. A holiday that I used to enjoy, decorated fully and celebrated proudly.

I could not be more ashamed of our present government than I am in this moment.

This is the darkest moment in the history of our country as the Christian nationalist fascist 2025 plan architects are aggressively collapsing our democracy because they deemed that it and our constitution should no longer exist.

The alt right Republicans fascist authoritarians say they fly our flag upside down ( including at the home of one of our Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito ) to indicate “ crisis”. They think and believe

Humanity, empathy and compassion for all

Safety nets for people to live in dignity

Freedom of speech

Justice and equality for all

Fairness for all

Acceptance of all

Freedom for all

Having a “diverse fabric” in our society

No systemic misogyny

No racism

No antisemitism

No bigotry

Wanting reasonable gun control legislation

Wanting good healthcare for all

Having norms of decency, civility, honesty

prevents THEM from being free and means our country is in CRISIS thus they fly our flag upside down?!!!!!

All of us fighting to save our democracy and our constitution as intended by our founding fathers with

3 equal branches of government

All of our EQUAL rights

Freedom of speech

Absolute separation of church and state

The 14th amendment which was properly ratified and became part of our constitution ensuring birthright citizenship is now being ABOLISHED by the stroke of a pen by an individual president abusing the power of “executive orders”.

It must be pointed out here that we actually have a “person” sitting in the oval office that talks about, jokes about inflicting the most inhumane, brutal treatment on human beings.

That he laughs and jokes about with great glee , with the people around him, the possibility of poor immigrants or political opponents, getting eaten by alligators. He relishes in the thought of an another human being on this earth getting eaten by an alligator or being overtaken by poisonous snakes .

It is the dark darkest of dark and incredibly sick.

All of us standing together putting country before party standing up to unbridled lawlessness corruption and inhumane brutality in this fascist authoritarian takeover……..

Maybe WE should be the ones to fly our flags upside down on the Fourth of July as we are in a real huge constitutional crisis and our democracy rights and freedoms have never been more threatened in the history of the United States of America.

Justice and equality are two sides of the same coin.

What is there to celebrate?

We are NO LONGER the land of the FREE.

We are no longer the country that HELPS others or our own American people .

But we certainly are still home of the BRAVE as evidenced by the millions that came out for the “No Kings “ peaceful protests” . The power is still with the people

WE THE PEOPLE!!!

We must never forget we are on the right side of history . We are on the right side of what is right.

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