I was most struck by the statement, "average Americans who will need to stay engaged." They will first need to become engaged, at least at some meaningful level, and the overwhelming majority of them will need to make some effort to become informed--and help by informing others. Grousing at the water cooler does not count as engagement. For that matter, even voting is so minimal a level of engagement when the best you can do to justify you vote is to say, "The poor can't afford the implementation of austerity measures. We don't have anything as it is. There is this huge wealth concentration at the top of the economic caste."
For the love of Pete! There is a very real economic impact for us all in austerity measures, and I'd bet not one in ten people have even the faintest clue about what that impact is. Knowing this--becoming truly informed--and helping to get that message out is vital.
Propaganda at it's finest! It's no secret the far right, bought and paid for media and religious zealots and greedy, power driven, soulless individuals have purposely kept many misinformed. Your comment says to all of them: job well done! Why propaganda? Keeping emotions high means keeping logic and rationale low. And is a great diversion as well.
PERSUADE the urban voters? In Florida alone, 50K didn't vote, thanks to voter suppression. Democratic votes and WHO was a con man? A vote, be it urban or rural based, isn't a matter of persuasion. It's a CHOICE.
Long ago, I learned the importance of fact checking, again and again. Your comment is precisely why.
Did the government also take over theaters, malls, hospitals, shopping centers and roads/highways and personal residences? The Amish schoolhouse in PA? Was God banned from these locations as well?
You're attempting to override the 1st amendment. Read that amendment. It clearly speaks of a wall between church and state for a reason.
There will always be criminals and mentally unstable people in this world. That's a given. That said, we'll never completely eliminate needless murders in this or any other country.
Armed teachers of any other educational staff is not the answer. There was armed security at Columbine and we all know how that worked out. In more than 98% of the massacres, another with a gun did NOT stop them.
WOW, because this article tells you the truth but it's not what YOU want to hear about the cheating republican conservatives - you call it SPIN.... For your information the repubs are lying about the popular vote being better... because they have rigged the popular vote by Gerrymandering the states they control... Look up Gerrymandering and gain some knowledge... hopefully you'll get your head out of the sand about the corrupt far right ALECs....
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