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Thirty years to the day after a truck bomb leveled a federal building, former president Bill Clinton said the country desperately needs to heed the lessons of how this city recovered, rising above anger and polarization to become a better place to live.

wapo.stBill Clinton, Oklahoma City commemorate 1995 bombing amid extremism fearsThe former president said “service, honor and kindness” are what’s needed today instead of the heated political rhetoric putting the country at risk.

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Sounds good, however it would only be one sided. Democrats aren't the ones decimating our Democracy, making a mockery of our Constitution and disregarding the rule of law, or embracing fascism. DONE with "bothsidesism" because it's BS.The garbage media has done that thus enabling the mess we are in.

Maybe if we had heeded the lessons in the 1990’s we wouldn’t be here. If large portions of your country are disenfranchised, some being radicalized, don’t paper over it and look the other way.

Hmmm, how exactly is it a better place to live now? Seems super MAGA, passing laws to destroy every non-white, non-straight person there, while they impose Christo-fascism into public schools. Seems like Timothy McVeigh won.

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I think more instructional is what led these people to set off a bomb. In my opinion it was a misguided feeling government is bad. It just takes. These same people are winning and we have King Felon telling us our institutions are bad. Bill you screwed us for an intern! No gravitas left for you.

No they were both wrong!! Maybe Trump is worse. Clinton did incredible damage to democrats with his behavior. I asked my sisters about it and they forgave Clintons behavior. After that I figured harassment was in the eye of the beholder. It was not cut and dry. Monica was willing.

Fuck that guy & you for thinking that we need to "rise above" for everything to be fine w/out getting angry. Anger is an activating force that gets things done if focused for the benefit of the most vulnerable amongst us. Why I'm bothering replying to billionaire-owned media, I don't know though....

I wish people would quit talking like "we need to learn to come together and not be polarized." What we need are a lot of people standing up and giving a reality check slap in the face, "Republicans, you are killing us and you need to get your head out your ass."

Oh... Bill is back to tell us how to live Never forget how much he screwed the middle class with his neoliberal agenda. Household income for most people barely changed in his terms but the 90th percentile & above saw real gain CEO pay jumped from ~90x that of wage slaves to ~300x

The country is already at risk. Being nice to people who want El Salvador to build more death camps is not the way to go. We are already polarized between conservative Christians and Americans. Pick a side or get the fuck out of the way.

I just watched the Documentary on OK City bombing and couldn't agree more.It's domestic terrorist who are our main enemy, unfortunately we have one sitting in the Oval and every GOP member of Congress.

It puzzles me how people can acknowledge how unresponsive the Republicans have been to our National Crisis and yet continue to ELECT them to office. Look at Florida's recent election. Are Republican voters stuck on stupid?

I love how the media is completely whitewashing Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirators. They were right wing antigovernment domestic terrorists. And we can’t move past it because we have never actually dealt with right wing anti-government domestic terrorist. The right wing part is always removed.

I was just talking about her & the 30-year war of propaganda against her. Anything & everything she did somehow became a "gate" and it was her fault. It was appalling.

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The problem is, one side is a death cult, and there is no middle ground to meet them on. You can "rise above" polarization if half of them want you stripped of your rights, and dead. Sometimes, there are only bad people on one side.

And vice versa! I bet he'd figure out a way to gaslight americans into believing ANYTHING was worth the lives of those 19 sweet daycare babies and 149 men and women lost that day. He'd call him a 'true patriot' and 'fine person.' Sociopathic malignant narcissist.

we did not rise above anger & polarization, obviously, and thats in part thanks to Clintonian politics that attempt to flatten politics out into centrism, serving no one--or most often, serving the right in a way that receives no credit from the right & gives them the space to grow more extreme

I dont wanna hear from the Clintons, I dont wanna hear from James Carville, I dont wanna hear from any blue/yellow dogs or "triangulating" centrists who wanna do social austerity & fill more prisons to appeal to polls of Fox News boomers. Nobodys asking them how to fix the problems they left for us

President Clinton we love you and respect you, but love, kindness, respect and compassion. Doesn’t work with Nazi’s… or lifelong criminals who want to be King.

🪖🤳🏿Lesson? The boys who bombed that building are the gang members who should be shipped out of this country. They're allowed to: - fly swastikas. - shoot up schools. - attack their own country (Jan 6th). - commit mass murder via covid. Amerikkka breeds these mf'ers! She ain't learning shit! 😡😤😡

Bill is out of touch with the level of extremism on the right and the clear and present danger posed by them being in power. The nation is way beyond "playing nice", "going high" or being incremental responding to these dangers. Bill - tread the room, man!

Most of all the city & state where it happened. I worked where many of those 19 children were born & seeing those mommas grieving after seeing them so happy at the time of the birth was PTSD causing for me!

I watched the OK City bombing documentary on Netflix yesterday. Hearing the police, residents governor & mayor speak after the bombing was a departure of what we would hear today if it happened. They spoke with respect towards the govt & the workers. Now MAGAts would cheer if it happened today.

I think Bill has lost his fastball. As an ex-president who served two terms he should still have a strikeout pitch to help his team. But he's become bland and maundering in his old age and is of little competitive value. And his missus is equally ineffectual. By the way, is Al Gore still alive?

Remember exactly where I was in college, from OKC, and the WP can’t even make this a gift article I wanted to read. Pretty shameful. You don’t have anything groundbreaking so just excluding anyone and everyone that should have access. Completely uncompassionate.

Counter their gerrymandering and voter de-registration with local registration drives. Go through the rolls the same way they did. Use survey companies (not ones they own) to identify potential Democrat voters and HELP them to get (re-)registered. Before the by-elections. Poor? GoFundMe their certs.

Very naive if you think Trump and his mafia aministration should be handled with kindness. Conservatives need to be treated with equal brutality because they are incapable of learning by any other means. They plan to do it to you if they are not obeyed. So disobey tryanny.

For the most part, the Dem leadership seems to be creating confusion in the movement, and urging people away from effective action. Organize yourselves. Keep parties out.

THAT BS will not REMOVE the FASCIST NAZI HOARD.... I refuse to be Warm & Fuzzy when we have a Fascist Nazi Dictator Destroying our Country, The American Way, Our Constitution, and our World Standing in EVERYTHING! Yet - he remains... WHY?! - they will generate Anger and Polarization

I am from Oklahoma and It is amazing to me how commonplace MCVeigh's opinions are now and in Oklahoma, but they do not see the connection. I actually wish Clinton had deftly connected the hatred today with the hatred on that day.