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, @SenBillCassidy @SenatorCollins @lisamurkowski @MittRomney @SenSasse @SenToomey @Mike_Pence
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I have spent a long time think of this an many months writing and rewriting it I have found it very difficult to put into words my feelings about what has
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I say to you, If you want to save the Republican Party leave it, for they have left you,
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Before Trump I thought I was pretty middle of the road, a middle right American
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Myself I am not a religious person, I consider myself Spiritual, I do believe their must be some kind of creator, what it is, is beyond my comprehension. What you believe is your right and
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I strongly support the 2nd amendment, but whole heartedly agree their must be reasonable restrictions on deadly weapons and everyone who buys a gun
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I could care less who you love, for one it’s none of my business, it does not effect me or the world in any way. I have no right to impose my morals onto anyone, I am not god
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I believe that what I believe is not what everyone should believe, I am not the belief police, and neither is anyone else
As far as the current Republican Party is concerned the middle right is the Radical left and they will censor you
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They wrap them selves in a flag, they hold their Bible, and point their guns and say, you are unpatriotic a unmoral person if you don’t fully support Trump.
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In their eyes I am the extreme left a socialist and you are just as shunned as me. Millions have left the GOP it is a shrinking party. 140,000 Republicans changed their registration in Jan alone,
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The only way to save the GOP is to leave it and bring like minded people with you. To fully and without question denounce the hatred the conspiracies the violence and the blind devotion to man that would tear up the constitution
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I weep for a country that has witnessed the leader of a violent insurrection go unpunished
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I weep for a constitution that no longer has the power or support it rightfully deserves
I weep for the Untied States that are no longer united
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More from Writing
Things we don’t learn in this article: that the author wrote David Cameron’s speeches during the period when they were intentionally underfunding the NHS and other services, directly creating the problem the author is concerned about now.
We also don’t learn that the paper it’s written in stridently supported those measures and attacked junior doctors threatening strike action over NHS cuts and long working hours, accusing them of holding the country to ransom.
We aren’t reminded that NHS funding and the future of health provision was a central part of previous election campaigns, and that attempts to highlight these problems were swiftly stomped on or diverted and then ignored by most of the press, including the Times.
I’d underline here that “corruption” doesn’t just mean money in brown envelopes: it describes a situation where much of an organisation is personally motivated to ignore, downplay or divert from malfeasance for personal reasons - because highlighting them would be bad for careers
Foges was Cameron’s speechwriter at the height of austerity; Forsyth is married to the PM’s spokesman; Danny F is a Tory peer; Parris is a former MP; Gove used to write for them regularly, and that’s before we get to professional mates-with-ministers like Shipman or Montgomerie.
Today we learn health services are brutally underfunded with scant support for hard pressed staff, although it\u2019s left unclear who is responsible for that and it appears to be an exceptional, totally unpredicted phenomenon, like a freak weather event. pic.twitter.com/StwFR7RejE
— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) January 25, 2021
We also don’t learn that the paper it’s written in stridently supported those measures and attacked junior doctors threatening strike action over NHS cuts and long working hours, accusing them of holding the country to ransom.
We aren’t reminded that NHS funding and the future of health provision was a central part of previous election campaigns, and that attempts to highlight these problems were swiftly stomped on or diverted and then ignored by most of the press, including the Times.
I’d underline here that “corruption” doesn’t just mean money in brown envelopes: it describes a situation where much of an organisation is personally motivated to ignore, downplay or divert from malfeasance for personal reasons - because highlighting them would be bad for careers
Foges was Cameron’s speechwriter at the height of austerity; Forsyth is married to the PM’s spokesman; Danny F is a Tory peer; Parris is a former MP; Gove used to write for them regularly, and that’s before we get to professional mates-with-ministers like Shipman or Montgomerie.
