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There is nothing more corrosive to a democracy than the idea that there is no truth.

— Adam Schiff

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These reports that Mitch McConnell may be open to the impeachment charges as well is quite a potential earthquake in the Senate.

What does matter is this: the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy, and our intelligence agencies have concluded that they will do so again.

You cannot trust this President to do what's right for the country

Unlike those people climbing outside the building, they knew it was a lie. The true believers were out there attacking the building. But inside the chamber, my Republican colleagues know it is a big lie

The stakes are nothing less than the future of liberal democracy. We are engaged in a new war of ideas, not communism versus capitalism, but authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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