Jen Sorensen for November 03, 2020

MAGA-Hatters do not know anything about our history; only about trumpo’s latest tweet.

My grandfathers came to America to escape tyranny (from Russia). All their children (women included) served in some capacity during World War Two or the Korean War to fight tyranny. Now, the seeds of tyranny have been planted and nurtured like a noxious weed in their own country. It has rooted deep and is growing now with the help of foolish, perverse “patriots.” It’s a perennial problem that each generation must recognize and fight against. We seem to be doing a poor job lately. Did our ancestors sacrifice in vain?

Uncle’s brother landed on Omaha Beach. Wife’s brother fought in Vietnam.

Note that the Americans (and allies) who fought in Europe during the 1940s, including my cousin who was killed at the Battle of the Bulge, were the original “Antifa” (anti-Fascist).

Arguably, those who fought in the Pacific against the Japanese Imperialists were Antifa as well.

My father fought the Nazis in World War II. His uncle was in the 8th Air Force. They fought the Fascists.

My father’s father was in the trenches in World War I. He fought to preserve democracy. One of our ancestors fought slavery in the Civil War and died in Texas in 1865 as a result of his service. Other ancestors fought in the American Revolution to have a representative democracy.

All of them must be spinning in their graves, watching so many Americans willing to allow a authoritarian government to take over America.

Bluefully YES

At one time there was honor/respect in serving, be it in the military.. or public service. The public service side has seen honor thrown aside in favor of greed/deceit/power. The road back starts with getting trump and Mitch out.. but, it’s a long road.

Whole family is Antifa, back then we just called them the allied forces.

And today’s patriots can’t be bothered to wear a mask?

Bravo, Jen.

Patriots these days wouldn’t last five minutes in a real fire fight like Omaha Beach

I will honor their legacy by voting out tyranny and the belief that only “certain” people count.

My father fought in the Aleutians battling back the Japanese, depriving them of a base for the invasion of the west coast of the US.

My grandmother sent her three sons and one son-in-law out to fight WWII. By the grace of God, she got all of them back home. My dad was at Pearl Harbor and when he got out hospital he went right back in the war.

Your absolutely best work ever! Thank you!

The USSR also had voting, it just didn’t matter because there was only one party. Vote before the current ruling party ingrains itself so deeply that voting doesn’t matter anymore. This election could be the last election!

Rocky: This is why I wish there were an “Unlike” option. (I didn’t want to up his visibility by replying to him.)

Honor the veterans who fought and died for our rights to vote by voting.

Dad served as a a radioman in China in WWII, uncles served in Europe.

I have both a DD214 and an Honorable Discharge, something that no Trump can honestly say, nor many republican “lawmakers”.

My family on my mother’s side first came over on the Winthrop Fleet to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My ancestors spread across the continent. Others emigrated from Italy, Ireland, and Norway.

My paternal grandmother was born in this country to parents who had just emigrated from Italy. My grandfather “jumped off one of the tsar’s submarines” and fled to the US. He changed his last name to that of his mother, which he passed on to my father and me.

This is what America is about to me: a place where people came from all over the world to form a new identity, a country that takes pride not only in what it is, but where its people came from as well. I astonish Europeans when I tell them my ancestry includes Italy, England, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Greece, Germany, France, and the Baltics. They don’t mix as much as we do!

I am also a proud New Englander, the home of the American Revolution, living in Boston, the home to John Adams, the man who made independence possible.

This is OUR country. A country formed from immigrants and strivers, who at its best welcomed everyone and gave them a chance to thrive.

We are in a dark time now, when people wielding powers of corrupt money, racism, ignorance, and lies are trying to shatter that country, and reshape it in their image: a land owned in fee simple by the wealthy, white, and male. Their avatar, a dishonest con man who never had the wealth he claimed and is entirely in the pocket of malevolent enemies of this country, nevertheless manifests all that they represent, and is willing to let even his own followers to die to appease his monstrous ego.

America has a checkered history, and still bears the sin of its racism. But at our best, we struck back – at Nazis, at the KKK, at the Know-Nothings – and kept this nation as a place for all.

Even if this election goes the way we hope, the fight is not done. Too many people believe these evil people.

But WE are still here. And we will fight.

Let us not forget that these WW2 ‘patriots’ fought in an army that still had segregation. Black lives mattered then, when it suited some. It took nineteen more years to ‘end segregation’ and still racial inequality exists.

My father and grandfather both fought in WWII. Fought to defeat Nazis. To have this same ideology trying to make a resurgence, here in America, aided and abetted by the current occupant . . . we aren’t going to stand for this.