Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/ Through eyes that see, the world over, it's clear enough: the greatest barrier confronting a functional solution to what ails US democracy, is a pissing match, imagined by its largely White protagonists as the holiest, highest ground of necessity, probity and significance.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 4 Jan 2022

“The losers in the resolution of past democratic crises in the United States have, more often than not, been Black Americans,” says Rob Lieberman, an expert on American political history at Johns Hopkins." t.co/RoqYGr6Fjc

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Quoted by@sentantiq The Whited Sepulcher of pathological, planetary, plutocratic, pissing matches. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” - Eph. 6:12Quoted by@DanielPinchbeck Exceptionalism is a fundamentally political characteristic, taking all sides, it appears. Add nuclear weapons. Quite the brew.Quoted by@antoniogm Amen.