
From our history section: The Founding Fathers would have loathed the idea of the marketing ploy that became the Pledge of Allegiance (the history of which most Americans know nothing about)…
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From our History section: since no one knew when Jesus was born the Catholic Church decided to usurp a fun-sounding pagan festival as the time of year of Jesus’ birth, but Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays regardless…
From history.com: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/christ-is-born?
Elon Musk may be just another rich grifter, but at least he’s shining a light on the fact that WWII (and nearly half a million American dead) did not see the end of fascism and Nazis…
Thanks to Kevin KAL Kallaugher. Trump, GOP, right-wing extremism, Christo-nationalism, Fuentes, white supremacy, pseudo-Christian
Considering right-wing extremism in America, perhaps our second President, John Adams, was right: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
The complete quote: “I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long...
Fascism is pounding, like a Gestapo agent, on the door of American democracy. We put fascism in its place in WWII. We can do it again…
Thanks to Nick Anderson. Trump, pseudo-Christian, right-wing extremism, Christo-fascism, nationalism
From our History section: on this day in 1981 Ronald Reagan signed the “Economic Recovery Act,” signaling the beginning of “trickle-down” economics, the decimation of middle-class benefits and the staggering rise of income inequality in America…
From History: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-signs-economic-recovery-tax-act-erta? increased deficits, tax breaks for wealthy, rise of oligarchy, anti-union, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, reduced government services,...
From The New Republic: “[the GOP knows] they cannot win hearts and minds [since] the demographics of the U.S. are inexorably shifting towards nonwhites and secularism,” so the GOP’s only hope is undermining democracy…
From The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/167100/republican-party-turning-america-into-hungary? Trump, treason, January 6, Jan 6, Big Lie, evangelicals, white supremacy