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struggle4progress

(125,682 posts)
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 10:23 PM Jan 27

How We Stop This Without Tearing America Apart

FORMER BLACK PANTHER SPEAKS: CAN AMERICA BE SAVED?
4 days ago

In moments like this, fear pushes people toward anger, and anger pushes nations toward mistakes they can’t undo.

I’ve lived through a time when violence felt inevitable — and I’ve seen firsthand what it actually produces: broken communities, lost lives, and opportunities that never return.

This video is not about outrage. It’s about what actually works.

In this message, I speak honestly about:

• Why violence and chaos always fail
• What history teaches us about real change
• How discipline, focus, and restraint protect communities
• Why turning on one another only strengthens oppression
• How everyday people still have agency — without escalation

This channel exists to lower the temperature, strengthen conscience, and remind us that unity and calm action are more powerful than fear.



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How We Stop This Without Tearing America Apart (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 27 OP
You are preaching to the wrong choir, gab13by13 Jan 27 #1
It's already torn apart. Fuck this Klarkashton Jan 27 #2
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and struggle4progress Jan 27 #3
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Politics is dialectical: it is never constant; the action and reaction interact and the world changes; struggle4progress Jan 27 #5
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The current crisis isn't about your intelligence or mine: it's about something much bigger struggle4progress Jan 27 #7
Again you talk down to me. I've report this. Klarkashton Jan 27 #8
Have a nice day struggle4progress Jan 27 #9

struggle4progress

(125,682 posts)
3. "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 10:34 PM
Jan 27

still retain the ability to function"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Response to struggle4progress (Reply #3)

struggle4progress

(125,682 posts)
5. Politics is dialectical: it is never constant; the action and reaction interact and the world changes;
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 10:49 PM
Jan 27

what is appropriate or inappropriate at one moment slowly morph or can suddenly change at the next moment

We don't want people motivated only by anger blindly rushing, nor do we need cowardly self-absorbed opportunists afraid to move forward

We need people to be alert, informed, vigilant, calm, and ready

Response to struggle4progress (Reply #5)

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