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Michael Tenzer's avatar

The problem is I don't think anybody has any faith that any of these things let alone one of them is going to happen!

As you say, the president is getting terrible advice. Clearly the case before the debate! Malcolm Nance suggested starting small groups of demonstrators. Five seemingly in an attempt to make a bite-sized showing of support for democracy over autocracy. It's crazy that there's no sort of national leadership on mass demonstrations. This should have been the case when McConnell first brazenly denied a democratic selection for the court. We should have been out in the hundreds of thousands. When rovey weighed died we should . When the Dobbs decision was handed down, we should have been in the streets by the hundreds of thousands. I'm afraid that social media and the phone and as you say confusion and chaos has loved us into complete inaction. My friends agree with me but they think I'm nuts. They have no fucking idea! I'm I'm probably mistakenly waiting till my retirement in a couple of years to devote myself full-time to some sort of public service if not grassroots actions etc etc. What do I do besides telling everybody I know the things I know? That's where the small groups of five seem to make sense. I sure as hell can grab five buddies and stand in front of Miami city hall. Maybe call the local newspaper. If everybody in your group, lucid, Heather Cox Richardson's group, byline Heidi Cuda's made a small group of five and got out there on the same day that would be an event!

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Ted Bernstein's avatar

This article is subtitled “Joe Biden, if you’re listening”. If there is one thing that seems crystal clear, it is that Joe Biden is listening, but to the wrong people. He’s listening to his wife, he’s listening to his advisors, and surely, he’s listening to himself. Is he listening to anyone inside his own administration who clearly see and understands the danger our nation currently faces from the threat you have been so clearly defining for years, Jim? Does anyone inside his administration clearly see those dangers? I can’t imagine that there isn’t ANYONE in the government or the intelligence agencies who isn’t fully aware of these threats. The question is, do they have the presidents ear and is he listening? Because it’s highly unlikely that Joe Biden will be reading - or heading your words Jim. And this is truly sad and excruciatingly painful to realize. Biden is fighting for his political life, and doesn’t have the bandwidth to fight for the very thing he has dedicated that entire political lifetime too: American Democracy.

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