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As most of us here in the states settle in to celebrate our Independence Day, I am forced to pause and consider recent events. As a reminder to many of you, blind nationalism is not patriotism. The very foundations of our democracy, this grand experiment, are crumbling and some of you cheer as the current administration hammers away at the weak spots.
Freedom of speech isn’t just for a few.
Presidential power is by design limited by the courts and legislature.
The legislature, currently in crisis as well, is supposed to bend to the will of the majority.
Freedom from and of religion is a keystone of this nation, and that means Muslims too.
The Press is there to report and investigate. Our current administration’s attempts to limit, bully, and eliminate them are disgraceful and a sign of authoritarianism that cannot be tolerated.
The right to keep and bear arms is not absolute. It is supposed to be regulated.
The Confederacy is dead. It was a treasonous rebellion based upon the desire to own other humans. To fly its flags or celebrate its history with anything but contempt or derision is the opposite of patriotism.
Blaming other disadvantaged people for your own disadvantages while cheering the power and resource grabs of the wealthy is ignorant and foolhardy.
We are causing climate change. Period. That’s it, and we absolutely must make drastic changes if we are to limit the damages and casualties.
Healthcare is a fundamental right, and blaming anything other than greed and a desire for power and control for the lack of access we have is short-sighted and irrational.
This administration is a threat to all that we, most Americans, hold dear. Resist. Vote. Think. Read. Recruit. Write. Speak. March. Organize. Do whatever you can to preserve what is left of our democracy.
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This silly website picks and chooses when to refresh. God help a longer thought. While my comment is awaiting moderation, read censorship, this is my preamble. The confederacy was NOT based on slavery. It was states rights that the ruling north states routinely ignored of the southern brothers. Lincoln brought the war because the final straw was slavery. The south was solely agricultural. They had no manufacturing. They had no raw materials. They had cotton. And needed lots of hands to pick it to send oversees and up north for milling. O dirt poor and basically starving as a mass.… Read more »
The south was poor and basically starving as a mass. They needed people to pick cotton. The first cotton picker was developed in the 1860s, see a correlation? A practical picker not until the 1930s. Now of course all the textile milks are in the south. Gee. What a shock. Slavery was already dying out as an economic reason. It was too expensive. You have to understand the history, and the economics of THAT time. You’re consistently looking at it through the lens of today. It’s wrong. And especially wrong that you write foolish articles of click bait like this.… Read more »
Actually, that’s even more damning to the South… that their economy was set up so they had no choice, financially, but to “employ” vast numbers of unpaid “workers”. They they literally could not afford NOT to construct a system that worked really hard to keep an entire group of people down. The lengths they went to to convince everyone of black people’s inferiority… forbidding slaves to read and write, making up the bogus psychological illness known as drapetomania, ministers preaching sermons about the “natural” inferiority of blacks… are mind-boggling. But I guess it’s understandable. When your entire financial survival demands… Read more »
Lucy. You’re woefully ignorant of the past, and as Cicero said, doomed to repeat it. Yours will be a different damned, but damned the same. At that time, we didn’t have the enlightened philosophy of almost now 200 years hence. We’d just come out of feudalism that gave all humans non rights. But hey, it was equal. Only the kings had rights. Like marriage nights rights. Nobody protested, yet of course they seethed. The souths economy was not set up to use slavery. It was what they had to work with. And that wasn’t much. And probably yes, they knew… Read more »
It’s not about “feeling offended”. It’s about the moral outrage that comes from knowing an entire group of people’s human rights were violated. I suspect you deliberately chose to frame it as “feeling offended”, too, both to imply liberals are incapable of moral outrage and to reduce combating injustice to a mere case of hurt feelings. Which doesn’t exactly put you on the side of being decent and good. I agree with you, partially, on what to do with confederate monuments. We must not forget about the past, what the Confederacy did, so that we never do it again. Just… Read more »
Wow what a ass kissing liberal apologist this author is.
I would make the case that you are just as much an ass-kissing apologist, for whatever conservative group or social circle you belong to. Because one of the things you must do to show your loyalty, is crap on liberals without making a case for your side.
At least Stacy is making a case for herself, and using information to support her point of view. Granted, it’s information that likely came out of textbooks approved by the Texas board of education, but at least she’s backing up her claims. Unlike you.
He. Stacy is he. And no, not one word has been read from TX BoE approved texts. That’s insulting. It’s the result of studying history, and economics and social psychology and reading a shit load of liberal as well as conservative thought over 45 years. Liberal thought is enlightening. But today’s liberalism is communistic in origin, and offers NOTHING in the quest for human progress. And blind adherence to this line of thinking, seeking to be more liberal than liberal is sophmoric at best. Tell me your vision, and your thoughts of how to get there. That doesn’t involve pure… Read more »
Again. Crickets.