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As always, I appreciate your deft telling of American history Professor. I hope that the current generation of Americans overwhelmingly vote for the continuance of democracy and the rejection of what the Republicans are offering.

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I worry that too many people don’t see our democracy is in danger. Complacency is the enemy I fear the most.

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Tuning out at a critical time is “the good man doing nothing.”

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I love that “Lincoln figured out the logic of a world that permitted the law to sort people into different places in a hierarchy, “. He put it so well. I have always thought of it as the “Flip-the-Script” rule. If some power situation seems so great and pre-ordained to you, Flip-the-Script, and imagine yourself no longer in the power position. How “good”, “fair” and “pre-ordained” are things now in your mind?

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I’ve learned more about American history from reading HCR than I have through years of school. It’s very interesting to learn how we got here and more to see how history repeats itself. We thankfully don’t enslave people anymore, but the few extreme wealthy people are still trying to take over our government and our lives. Trump is a tool.

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So very well said, NtrLvr!

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OMG. your dogs are the cutest pack ever!

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It was a dog party. Not all mine😂

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As do I

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