Jeff Flake, continuing his attacks on _____ after the so-called president blasted him on Twitter:
“How many more disgraceful public feuds with Gold Star families can we witness in silence before we ourselves are disgraced? How many more times will we see moral ambiguity in the face of shocking bigotry and shrug it off? How many more childish insults do we need to see hurled at a hostile foreign power before we acknowledge the senseless danger of it? How much more damage to our democracy and to the institutions of American liberty do we need to witness in silence before we count ourselves as complicit in that damage? Nine months of this administration is enough for us to stop pretending that this is somehow normal, and that we are on the verge of some sort of pivot to governing, to stability. Nine months is more than enough for us to say, loudly and clearly: Enough. The outcome of this is in our hands. We can no longer remain silent, merely observing this train wreck, passively, as if waiting for someone else to do something. The longer we wait, the greater the damage, the harsher the judgment of history.”
I’ve been thinking about that battle cry at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and gay activism about AIDS, Silence = Death.
It’s true in this case, too, because silence will get us nowhere; silence will continue to let _____ run roughshod over our country while the GOP, a tribe of hypocrisy, does nothing about him.
That’s why We The People need to stop being silent, and start speaking up and demanding our elected officials do something, or vote each and every complicit asshat out of office.
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