I think sometimes, some people still think we’re working with people who you can negotiate with. And what was proven under President Obama’s time is that he gave them a lot of concessions to get the Affordable Care Act passed, and they still voted against it. And a lot of the concessions were things that helped create the problems we have now.
— Rev. William Barber
Democracy to survive?
The viscera completely wrecked,
Disaster must arrive.
Substantial portion of the men
We class as citizens,
Our peers, proposed a regimen
And were not “on the fence”:
They voted, strictly, for to harm,
To hurt, and, partisan,
They bought quick cash but sold the farm,
And cheating drove the plan.
Lord, I have understood how base
Humanity can be,
Yet even as it shows its face
Some new features I see:
It will be well, if mankind fails,
For truth but must condemn,
And humankind, upon the rails,
Has had its Requiem.
I did my part; yet what I wrote
May not resurgence augur:
Let mankind rest, its lies found out,
In death by pettifogger.