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Trump officials to receive immediate clearances and easier FBI vetting
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What the hell do you think this country was supposed to stand for when James Madison said that government's role is to protect the opulent minority from the majority, when the revolutionary war broke out around the time England started considering outlawing slavery, when Thomas Jefferson kept slave girls in his bedroom and raped them daily, when Thomas Jefferson lobbies to end the slave trade because it would make his breeding plantations more money, when Mount Rushmore was carved into a sacred mountain out of spite for the indigenous, when the US government killed all the plains buffalo because they had a treaty with the Lakota people that included the term "for as long as the buffalo roam the plains", when the USA without question invaded Vietnam in an attempt to maintain the French colony against the Vietnamese people's desire for liberty, when the USA told Japan not to vacate the Korean peninsula where they raped and tortured people for years so that the USA could take over the colony on their behalf, when the USA took over The Phillipines from King Phillip of Spain and built a brutal occupying military police force so effective that they brought it back to create the State Police system that was used to continue violently breaking strikes when local cops started feeling bad about killing their neighbors, when the Philadelphia police department dropped an incendiary bomb on a housing in a black ghetto because it couldn't arrest some of the people inside it, when the USA imprisons more people per capita than even the height of the Soviet GULAG system when it was housing Nazi POWs, when the USA votes every single year at the UN against the banning of the glorification of Nazis, ....
What do you think this country fucking stands for?
Kinda hard to read this seeming stream of consciousness response, but I'm probably not qualified to do so anyway since I'm not much of a history buff (although I will point out that Philadelphia was under a black mayor during the MOVE incident you referenced - not that this fact means much, all things considered).
It seems to me that people seeking positions of power are rarely the type of people who actually should have that power, and the examples you cite are just some of the many experienced by the world at large. Humanity sucks. We may be more "intelligent" than the rest of the animal kingdom we evolved from, but we're still animals at heart - with all the "survival of the fittest" mentality baggage that fact comes with. Unless and until we somehow outgrow that background, we will always be short-sighted, instinctively selfish, and therefore ultimately self-destructive beings as a whole. This is why so many of us have little hope for the future as we watch the inevitable self-destruction happen yet again - only this time with a level of destructive power we've never had before and which we're unlikely to survive as a species.
Perhaps I'm self-deluded in having believed that - despite our not insignificant faults - America was at least as a whole trying to set a better example for how a human society can operate. If that ever was true, I have precious little hope of ever getting fully back on that path - at least not in what remains of my - or even my children's - lifetime.