Thread by @fenrir_71

"You deploy because your nation sends you to these places. And then one day you come home and you realize it was all a lie."

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"Our town is dying. One out of every four homes is an abandoned dilapidated structure, and you get told; keep picking up trash and let leaders do what leaders do."

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"Elected leaders in our towns, our states, in our COUNTRY are absolutely are self serving."

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"You know you come home and you realize. I can take you five minutes from here and show you where kids have it worse than kids I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan."

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"So that's why I come back here and started speaking up, and I will not shut up for nobody." -- Richard Ojeda, dem for Congress, WV.

Fuckin' A if he ain't right on ALL those accounts.

Imagine being a vet, taking that oath, risking your life in service then coming home

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And finding out your fellow citizens haven't done THEIR duty to our nation by doing such an easy thing as VOTING and PAYING ATTENTION.

Toxic pollution run amuck, homeless everywhere you look, shitty jobs, infrastructure from the 30s, and a shitshow bought gov't.

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The military fosters a sense of self responsibility in a person, and a sense of how much bigger things are than one person.

Then you come home and find a nation of people who care more about a bigger fucking TELEVISION than if their neighbors are eating every day.

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And why?

"I don't like politcs."

Guess who's fault that is?

OURS.

We stopped paying attention, we stopped demanding accountability from our leaders, we stopped being a NATION and became individuals instead.

We let OTHERS run our nation; we're too lazy to do it ourselves.

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This HAS TO STOP.

Too many of our fellow citizens, even ones you may not like, are suffering on a mass scale never before seen in this nation.

November is the only chance we have to fix this shitshow, then EVERY DAY after is a day for progress.

#VoteBlue
#TakeItBack
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