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All I want for Christmas is a January 21 General Strike.

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Sorry, We Europeans have long known that starting from Reagan there was no Left in the USA, the Republicans being just the righter wing of a unique fascism of which the Democrats are just the left wing, their SAs in a way. I am ashamed that European elites, although knowing what the artful pretense - freedom, democracy, values - hid, did nothing to unmask it. That led to Nord Stream blowing up by Biden henchmen.

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Outstanding, compassionate, and accurate criticism of the DemoRAT party, and great commentary on the current state of affairs, Kathleen, especially about the US supported Holocaust in Palestine. Unfortunately, there have been many holocausts in recorded history and one particular group of people think they have a copyright on that noun. I think not.Genocide is genocide, period!

The people with whom I see everyday or often don't even talk about what your whole narrative is about, as it doesn't exist. Ya know, "see no evil, speak no evil, and hear no evil" if I remember the slogan correctly from my childhood.

But getting back to the Dems, who abandoned the working-class and the poor, decades ago, are finally being exposed and understood by many of the people they shun and voted for the con artist thinking he's gonna do right by them.

Imperial America is gradually losing its dominance in the world and like every other empire will eventually collapse or like some empires, conquered from without. With an outrageous national debt of about $35, 000, 000, 000, 000 and soaring, the interest payments so far are close to a billion dollars a year and it'll increase as well. The banksters and big money bondholders love it!

Our national culture has become a culture absent of pathos but full of self-satisfaction in believing we are the exceptional people capable and willing to rule and mold the world as we see fit or else we'll bomb you and occupy your country as well if we can't bribe the heads of state to do our bidding and side with us.

Many thanks to you, Diane E. and other journalists sharing your uplifting thoughts in addressing the wrongdoing in our own nation and abroad. I salute you all on this Veteran's Day, of which I am one but don't celebrate it. Peace and Harmony are Supreme! Melt those missiles, tanks, guns, fighter aircraft and sea vessels for combat down and remake them into plowshares and cultivate the soil (organically) and nourish the Earth's inhabitants so nobody goes to sleep hungry.

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Kathleen, once again, you've outdone yourself! I am in awe and admiration of your courage and writing/speaking the brutal truth. I also appreciate the words of DE and ZG here - a bit of light on the darkness of my 50+ years experience and deep dismay about the U. S. political syndicate and its deliberate deceptions in failing to provide anything remotely resembling democracy (such a canard continuing to be propagated from the faux-progressive mouthpieces for the status quo). We do need, desperately, real alternatives for life and the living! Time to pick up the pieces and start the next revolution.

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A tour de force, Kathleen! I guess we'll have to get out the smelling salts because the stench of decomposing neoliberalism and the Democratic party will be with us for some time yet!

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The difference between a corpse and a living person is that the spark of life, the electricity that is life, what is call the spirit has left, the chemical composition is that same. The same can be said for political movements. The Dumbcrats have long ago abandoned what made the public support them. How they can support the Repulsives is totally sane. New options are desperately needed.

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