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This MLK quote should be read by every republican in public office every morning whenever they wake up.
"Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."
--Charles Dickens
This quote aptly describes Mike Johnson.
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General John Kelly voted for Trump, and eventually became his White House Chief of Staff. And THEN, he got to know him.
āThe depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though itās more pathet0ic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life,ā
--- Marine General Kelly, Trumpās former White House Chief of Staff.
In 1996, the Association to Benefit Children, a charity, held a ribbon-cutting at a nursery school servingĀ children with AIDSĀ in Manhattan.Ā Bigwigs who had donated a lot of money, like then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former mayor David Dinkins, and Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford were in attendance. But there was another dude who showed upādespite not being a donor at all. Guess who?7
"Nobody knew he was coming," another donor in attendanceĀ told theĀ Washington Post. "There's this kind of ruckus at the door, and I don't know what was going on, and in comes Donald Trump. He just gets up on the podium and sits down."Ā
According to the charity's executive director, Trump had never given a single dollar to the charity or the nursery school. But you know who did? The dude whose seat was stolen by Trump.
Steven Fisher, a developer, had given a lot to the charity to build the nursery school. While the people sitting around Trump were concerned about him just showing up and jacking the Fisher's seat, the ceremony had already started and there wasn't much they could do by that point.
As photographers took pictures, a children's choir sang "This Little Light of Mine," all while Trump sat nearby, looking like he was actually an honored donor. Trump even did the MacarenaĀ with some of the children and stars onstage.Ā
After the event though, Trump left without explaining his uninvited attendanceāand he exited without even donating anything either.Ā
The next day, the charity's executive director had to email Fisher to apologize. "I immediately said 'no,' but Rudy Giuliani said 'yes' and I felt I had to accede to him," the executive director explained. "I am just heartsick. I hope you can forgive me," the executive director pleaded.
Trump never apologized.
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In an interview, Tony Schwartz, the journalist who wrote Trumpās āThe Art of the Deal,ā said of Trump āLying is second nature to him, more than anyone else I have ever met. Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."
Schwartz:, āHe lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it.ā Since most people are āconstrained by the truth,ā Trumpās indifference to it āgave him a strange advantage.ā
Schwartz: " When challenged about the facts, Trump would often double down, repeat himself, and grow belligerent."
Schwartz described a man constitutionally incapable of logic, moral reasoning or self-reflection.
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Conservatives today rely on political institutions that brazenly undercut majority rule. The Senate, the courts,Ā the Electoral CollegeĀ ā all provide conservatives with structural advantages at the expense of the many. But the Right isnāt content to sit back and cash in on the tilted playing field. It actively labors to restrict voting rights, skew the census, gerrymander districts, and generally increase the sway of the countryās most anti-majoritarian institutions. When confronted with criticism, they resort to theĀ nonsensical argumentĀ that āweāre a republic, not a democracy.ā
Free speech rights, civil rights, and other protections are essential to a flourishing democracy. But conservativesā contempt for majority rule does not spring from a concern for a beleaguered minority (unless you think big business qualifies as an oppressed group). The truth is, the Right doesnāt expect a majority of Americans to support their policies,Ā nor do they particularly care..
To defeat conservatism today, the main thing we have to do is to explain what it is, and what is wrong with it.Ā
Q: What is conservatism?
A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.
Q: What is wrong with conservatism?
A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception, and has no place in the modern world..
The origins of the term LiberalĀ traces back to the Latin word liber (meaning āfreeā), which is also the root of the wordĀ "libertyĀ "("the quality or state of being free").
Conservative:
tending to preserve or protect, preservative, having the power to keep whole or safe," from Old FrenchĀ conservatif, from Medieval LatinĀ conservativus, from LatinĀ conservatus, past participle ofĀ conservareĀ "to keep, preserve, keep intact, guard.
In other words, to maintain and protect the status quo, and the establishment.
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As White House counsel under Nixon from 1970 to 1973, John Dean was a key figure in the Watergate sagaāparticipating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history.
āThe American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump. He is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested.ā
--John Dean
He was not only convinced that Trump will be worse than Nixon in virtually every wayāhe thought Trump would probably get away with it.
āI donāt think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.ā
--John Dean
āI used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon where Iād see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,ā Dean recalled. āHeād say, āThis is something I canāt say out loud...ā or, āThat is something the president canāt do.āā To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean, unmolested by any such struggle."
--John Dean
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