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Kaitlin Has Had Enough@gothamgirlblue.com |
Just to be clear, there have been a lot of fractures in our system before, but the “we’re headed for a civil war, nothing will be the same again” crisis started with Mitch McConnell in 2016 for me, and I won’t budge on that. If things had gone the other way, it’d be dangerous, not already dissolved.
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Publius Maximus (He/Him)
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For me, the moment where the civil war became inevitable: 2013 government shutdown. As soon as _not_ governing became a routine tool, I realized that it would take a total overhaul of the system in order to fix it. And since one party was benefitting from breaking things... Civil war.
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GetYourKix キクス
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Citizens United. That's when I knew we were really in for it.
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Dexter Remmick
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I'd put the start at Bush v Gore, followed almost immediately by wars of conquest and a torture regime.
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ricky cilantro
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my turning point is 2000. if Gore is the incumbent in 2004, the odds of Alito and Roberts being elevated to the court in 2005 and 2006 are practically non-existent not to mention the Kyoto Accords, no invading Iraq, no unnecessary tax cuts truly alternate history novel shit
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JUCIFER
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agonizingly, feels like most ppl (besides those part of the rw efforts to foment) have kept their fingers in their ears +eyes closed just walking on into it all these years +still are, including majority of professional pundit/journalist classes
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Devin
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Repealing the Voting Rights Act because we successfully elected one black president feels like the first crisis to me. But I suppose Citizen's United was also completely made up out of nowhere.
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TruelyEsoteric
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What makes me most mad is that I believe he doesn't have the mental facilities to even begin to understand what he did
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professional agitatormama
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mitch said back in 2008 that he would personally make sure to block anything obama did. anything. from day one. and he did!
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TommyZed34
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I maintain we've been in a civil war for years now, but most Americans are too lazy to kill each other.
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