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In reply to the discussion: BOSTON GLOBE Opinion Piece: "The world of threats to the US is an illusion." [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,425 posts)of threats outside the US.
But there are threats to our nation, now more than ever. Still, those threats are from within:
-- radical RW religiosity that seeks to impose itself everywhere in every way on everyone;
-- the NRA and its limitless GUNS, including automatic weapons, with impunity for all gun owners, but especially for white males;
-- an overly intrusive NSA/CIA security state (already mentioned by another poster);
-- the thinly-veiled racist attitudes that have become more overt;
-- the dismantling of our once great public education system;
-- continuing attempts to dismantle Social Security and Medicare;
-- the amassing of wealth into the hands of a selective few who then control all facets of the media and who buy politicians at a scale unprecedented in our history;
-- paying working people wages that are comparable only to a medieval feudal system;
-- a Supreme Court that is stacked with corporate tools and a lower court federal system that is not much better;
-- Etc., etc., etc.
But so long as we focus on ISIS and other "others," we can't see what is right in front of our faces. Every day.
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