John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · Jan 30 However dominant the US government gets against its people, it’s a losing battle. We were raised on a curriculum of defiance, taught through events like the Boston Tea Party, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the Vietnam protests. We were raised to be dissidents. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
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- I hope it doesn’t get here but also… • The United States has the most heavily armed civilian population in the world — With more privately owned firearms than people — Around 120.5 guns per 100 residents • “US gun owners possess 393.3 million weapons — According to a ‘2018’ report” •
The right wing media bubble has pushed the idea that the most powerful people in the nation—Christians, White Men, The President, Billionaire—are all somehow the victims of a massive conspiracy by a hidden cabal of global elite which controls everything. That makes supporting Power actually defiant
Hat tip to you, @galbeckerman.bsky.social, on a great, must-read reminder of this truth in @theatlantic.com today. Gift link:
Yes, and . . . we also don't like to see our lawmakers act with impunity. This entire administration, from the president on down, is — literally — lawless.