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Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social |
What he didn’t understand, what I certainly didn’t, is those victories were still not universally accepted. That there were forces at work, energized in no small part by his occupying the office, that not only disagreed that those changes were improvements but were actively trying to undo them.
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RainOrShine99
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I have found Rachel Maddow’s podcasts and book on the history in America of the rise of far right extremism very enlightening. (Ultra and Prequel) It seems to keep happening.
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Tracy Green
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I think when we think "wow we made so much progress, what happened" it's that we DID make progress and some people really didn't like that progress at all and have put a lot of effort into undoing it while the other side perhaps rested a tad much
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Natty Bumppo
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We like to think that history goes in straight line, but sometimes it circles back on itself. We got complaisant. My husband says, “some people are going to have to brave now.” Hope I can be one.
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Jay Marose
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I keep thinking of the kid crying on the phone, alone, in your adaptation of The Plot Against America. It destroyed me. Now Im thinking we will see that with the kids’ classmates. Families will disappear. Then, who do they come for next?
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Dave Thomer
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I sure as heck think Obama understood that even if you didn’t. You don’t have to keep laying out the vision for a better US and the case for it if you think it’s beyond questioning. The arc doesn’t bend itself.
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Peter Sagal
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So, yeah, that whole “moral arc of the universe” thing? Nope.
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