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From Julie Conason:

Do me one GREAT BIG FAVOR. Please, please, please MISS ME with any BS about *this is not who we are* and *we’re better than this* because first of all, I’ve been saying this is utter nonsense for years; second of all, who is the “we”? And thirdly, as many of us have BEEN saying, this is EXACTLY who/what the United States is. No greater proof should be necessary than the results of this election.

IF (and that’s a big “if”) this is not who we WANT to be, we’ve got a f*ck of a lot of work to do.

“We were wrong to believe that white people weaned for decades on supremacy would suddenly embrace disparate humanity and make more space at the table.

“We were wrong to believe that white Christians would finally have the scales fall from their eyes and abandon their blind adoration of this vile false prophet of enmity, and once again embrace the expansive, compassionate heart of Jesus.
We were wrong to believe that kindness and science and facts and truth and goodness would be found more valuable than the fool’s good of sneering, star-spangled, American greatness.

We were wrong to hope that more Republicans would cross party lines in order to defend their country from the greatest terrorist threat in our lifetime.

We were wrong to believe that hope would rise up to cast out fear.

And most of all, we were wrong about people we know and love and live alongside and work with and study beside; about our parents, spouses, siblings, uncles, best friends, and neighbors: they are not the people we thought they were and we do not live in the country we thought we lived in.”

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