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Kyblue1

(216 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 11:00 PM Jul 2020

Couldn't this election be the beginning of the Great American Do-Over?

Lately there has been a lot of reflection on our history and the our failure as a nation to live up to the lofty principles and goals set forth in the Declaration of Independence. No doubt we have not lived up to the promises expressed and implied in that document. Minorities, especially African-Americans, and women have had to struggle for a semblance of equal rights (and still are not there.
Why don’t we renew our Declaration with the commitment to get it right finally. Then, we would have the right to claim that we are “Great”

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Couldn't this election be the beginning of the Great American Do-Over? (Original Post) Kyblue1 Jul 2020 OP
Maybe...I hope so. Demsrule86 Jul 2020 #1
I hope so. I'm really fed up with the GOP crap for decades. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2020 #2
It will happen with the continuing demographic changes taking place. But not all at once and there JI7 Jul 2020 #3
No, PoC don't have equal access to voting nothing will stay changed even if 90% of white people.. uponit7771 Jul 2020 #4
That's what I'm hoping for... 2naSalit Jul 2020 #5

JI7

(89,173 posts)
3. It will happen with the continuing demographic changes taking place. But not all at once and there
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 11:56 PM
Jul 2020

is still going to be a lot of resistance from racists because of disproportional representation.

But they can't stop the demographic changes that are happening.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
4. No, PoC don't have equal access to voting nothing will stay changed even if 90% of white people..
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 12:01 AM
Jul 2020

... want it.

2naSalit

(86,048 posts)
5. That's what I'm hoping for...
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 01:04 AM
Jul 2020

and to some extent it will be, we have no choice but to clean up our act or Mother Nature will remove us from the planet.

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