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Religious Leaders Back Obama Administration On Transgender Protections
( Source: Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie ) #Civics, #Religion, #Standing on the Side of LoveTransgender Rights and the End of the New South
( Source: The New Yorker ) #Civics, #Economics, #Radical FundamentalismMcCrory’s Democratic opponent, Roy Cooper, the state’s attorney general, who has announced that his office will not defend H.B. 2 against legal challenge, has led McCrory in every poll since the law was passed. Since H.B. 2 became law, PayPal and Deutsche Bank have scrapped expansion plans for North Carolina, the N.B.A. and N.C.A.A. have suggested that they may not hold future events in the state, and a caravan of entertainers have cancelled shows, including Bruce Springsteen and Cirque du Soleil. New South governors measure themselves by the investments they attract. When the cultural divisiveness of Tea Party politics drives out business and entertainment, it becomes New South kryptonite.
read moreQuote: “The problem is that we don’t have any power”
( Source: Thomas Frank ) #2016 Election, #Civics, #Education“That’s always their answer. More student loans. More job training. Get more kids into colleges. Give everyone a chance to go to Harvard. That’s always their answer. That’s misdiagnosing the problem, in my view. The problem is not that we aren’t smart enough; the problem is that we don’t have any power.” — Thomas Frank
1,700 years ago, the mismanagement of a migrant crisis cost Rome its empire
( Source: Quartz ) #2016 Election, #Civics, #Moral Nation, #Standing on the Side of LoveTrump “feeds into the ISIS narrative”
( Source: Media Matters ) #2016 Election, #Civics, #Moral Nation, #Radical Fundamentalism, #ReligionDonald Trump “feeds into the ISIS narrative” — foreign correspondent Richard Engel
Quote: “I know which side I’m on…”
( Source: Elizabeth Warren ) #Moral Nation“I know which side I’m on, and I’m going to fight my heart out to make sure Donald Trump’s toxic stew of hatred and insecurity never reaches the White House.” — Elizabeth Warren
The Newly Emboldened American Racist
( Source: Jennifer Sabin / HuffPost Politics ) #Moral Nation, #Radical Fundamentalism“You cannot view this election solely as a choice between two platforms, two parties, or two personalities. This election is about much bigger issues. It’s about the way way we look at people, and talk about them, and care for them. It’s about the soul of America and its relationships to the world. If you care about that, you cannot vote Trump, or stay home, or vote for a third party spoiler. How can this man, who has fomented so much anger and hate, represent the United States…”
read moreLiberal Redneck – American Family Association Boycotts Target
( Source: Liberal Redneck on YouTube ) #Moral Nation, #Standing on the Side of Love“Trae Crowder, the Liberal Redneck, has got some musins on the AFA recent boycott of Target over their trans-friendly bathroom policy. He ain’t fer it.”
“You don’t speak for my family [ . . . ] Stop trying to pass your bigotry off as a ‘family’ issue…”
Here’s this guy’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/traecrowder/
…and check out his other vids here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA/videos
“Democracy” is not a four-letter word. “Use it or lose it.”
#Civics, #Radical Fundamentalism“Democracy – use it or lose it.” – Bernard Waugh, Jr., NH Municipal Association Legal Counsel; The Bradford Bridge, March 1992, p. 5
For those in “blue” territories who are unaware that “democracy” has come under attack from the radical right, in an about-face since the days when the Bush administration was advocating trying to bring democracy to the middle east, here’s this radical fundamentalism in action: