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If we are to save ourselves from becoming the Fouth Reich, we need to move on a criminal government that in no way resembles the one described for America in our Constitution and which has lost the affection and respect of the world's decent peoples.
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In the past, it was the job of the opposition party to realign official misbehavior of rogue incumbents. Over the past seven years -- the past two with a majority of both houses of Congress -- the Democrats have not measured up to this responsibility.
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One wonders if this springs from political cowardice or if the Democrats and the Republicans answer to the same masters. In either event, we cannot afford this treacherous behavior if the real America is to be anything more than a historical item that died in the early 21st Century.
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What must be done now falls to the awareness, the decency and the action of the electorate. It is time for the people to save America or to witness its funeral.
