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2024 is the year to get involved
Mary Hoffman
Jan. 23, 2024 12:00 am
Sometimes someone has already written the words that express my outlook and upon which cannot be improved:
"No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument for expressing the Incorporated National Will. When Americans think of dictators they always think of some foreign model. If anyone turned up here in a fur hat, boots and a grim look he would be recognized and shunned … But when our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American.”
— Dorothy Thompson, 1937
2024 is not a year to sit on the sidelines. Think, get involved, vote!
Mary Hoffman
Decorah
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