Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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It gets better: the trumpers are STILL pushing the big lie, and consequently convincing their voters to NOT go out and vote.
So: what are the heavily armed, entirely ignorant, and perfectly willing to kill people going to do when they get frustrated by a system that doesn't represent them because they don't vote?
So: what are the heavily armed, entirely ignorant, and perfectly willing to kill people going to do when they get frustrated by a system that doesn't represent them because they don't vote?
In a way, these two taken together makes it sound like they DON'T have to go out and vote to be "represented" if the people they would vote for are getting voted in anyways.
Indeed, they did not.
To be fair to the voters: trumpers are NOT the majority of the republicans party voters (though they do seem to be the majority of republican politicians.). The trumpers are simply loud and dumb.
You see the same thing in quebec politics. Seperation, as a cultural movement is at an all time low. The few who still legitimately want it are the last of the old ones. It's the same premise here: just much larger and seemingly much dumber.
You see the same thing in quebec politics. Seperation, as a cultural movement is at an all time low. The few who still legitimately want it are the last of the old ones. It's the same premise here: just much larger and seemingly much dumber.
You literally could be describing the UK there as well.
The hell of it all, while yes I can trace the problems back to Regan and Goldwater, the real reason we're in this mess?
Dubya.
It all leads back to that shitheel's blood soaked hands. Because he was the Neocon poster boy, and when his Administration collapsed because the Neocons couldn't find their asses with both hands, a roadmap, and old native guide it opened the door to the Tea Party, which hindsight and knowledge have given us the benefit of knowing was a front for the goddamn Nazis.
All he had to do was be a little more competent and not appoint a cocking Horse Judging assistant as director of FEMA and literally all of this could have been avoided.
Dubya.
It all leads back to that shitheel's blood soaked hands. Because he was the Neocon poster boy, and when his Administration collapsed because the Neocons couldn't find their asses with both hands, a roadmap, and old native guide it opened the door to the Tea Party, which hindsight and knowledge have given us the benefit of knowing was a front for the goddamn Nazis.
All he had to do was be a little more competent and not appoint a cocking Horse Judging assistant as director of FEMA and literally all of this could have been avoided.
Actually in the US it goes back to the Civil war. When the north won, (and lets be honest the north did not have the cleanest history either) instead of stamping out the jive like "The south shall rise again!" and "The confederacy" they let people continue to fly the flags, continue to the talk... Until it became an "accepted" part of the culture, that has no infested many of the dumber people of our nation.
They should have stamped that jive right out. And before anyone screams "Heritage!" the confederacy was only around 4 years.... Transformers and Power Rangers have more heritage than it does.
They should have stamped that jive right out. And before anyone screams "Heritage!" the confederacy was only around 4 years.... Transformers and Power Rangers have more heritage than it does.
I have socks that have lasted longer than the Confederacy. HERITAGE!
Not quite. It wasn't a regular part of things until the 1950s or so. that's when stuff like the confederate battle flag took off. The flag didn't even have any real presence until after WW2.
Why the Confederate Flag Made a 20th Century Comeback
The popularity of the Confederate battle flag today has more to do with the Civil Rights Movement than the Civil War.
www.nationalgeographic.com
How the US Got So Many Confederate Monuments | HISTORY
These commemorations tell a national story.
www.history.com
Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History
In total, at least 830 Confederate monuments have been constructed across the U.S. Most were not built immediately after the Civil War. They were installed decades later, mostly in Southern states, when disenfranchised Black Americans’ civil rights were aggressively under attack.
I don't know that there was really anything they could have done at the end of the civil war to have made things better -at the time-, other than make sure the reconstruction stuff wasn't screwed up(IIRC that was a big mess). Now when this stuff started spiking in the 1900s, that would have been a good time to start saying "No." but it ultimately didn't happen.
Really the problem was that we botched Reconstruction in every conceivable way. The deep south never really recovered economically AND the former slaves never got what was owed them ("forty acres and a mule" and all that).
All because Lincoln decided to "reach across the aisle" and make his running mate a Southern Democrat, and the guy Booth tasked with assassinating said Southern Democrat chickened out. We could have ended up with President Ben Wade, and hoo boy would history have gone differently then.
All because Lincoln decided to "reach across the aisle" and make his running mate a Southern Democrat, and the guy Booth tasked with assassinating said Southern Democrat chickened out. We could have ended up with President Ben Wade, and hoo boy would history have gone differently then.
Under God was inserted in the fifties to quote "flight the communist hordes". I never say it if I say the pledge and never will.
I just never say the pledge. It always sounded vaguely sinister to me, even before I learned the background.
