• kandoh@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    Let’s try to make a list of where America went wrong

    1. The Louisiana Purchase: turned the nation into an expansionist empire.

    2. Andrew Jackson ignoring the rule of law so he could genocide the natives

    3. Lincoln keeping Johnson as his VP while at war with the south.

    4. Ending reconstruction early

    5. FDR not hanging the conspirators in the business plot

    6. Nixon using the Southern Strategy to win his election

    7. Ford pardoning Nixon

    8. Everything Ronald Reagan did

    9. Ruby Ridge, Waco, and NAFTA radicalization of rural Americans

    10. Supreme Court awards GWB the presidency

    11. The Iraq War

    12. Unregulated banks allowed to crash the global economy

    13. Limited US involvement in the Arab Spring fails to capitalize on popular movement, Syrian refugee crisis sends far right into overdrive

    14. Allowing the host of celebrity apprentice to be President

    15. Ignoring the COVID pandemic until it’s too late then not locking down hard enough.

    16. Supporting Israeli genocide in Gaza

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        3 months ago

        Clinton’s telecom act did more damage to public knowledge and information than the fairness doctrine

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      3 months ago

      So, when are you getting involved into politics and changing things? I swear, some of you make it sound like you know better than all of our political leaders throughout history… it makes you wonder, with all these leaders making these “horrible” decisions, why is the US still one of the strongest countries in the world, and people are risking their lives to get here?