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  • @Mark, I also read Professor Richardson’s letter this morning. This “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” amounts to nothing more than white supremacy.
  • The base will cheer it justified by the Congressional Black Caucus. Interesting times if they pull off a black supremacy analogy that obscures the black justice agenda.
  • Patriotism--the last refuge of the scoundrel. Could it be more apt in Gaetz's and Greene's cases: https://cnn.com/2021/04/16/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-america-first-caucus/index.html
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    Yeah - This crap has been out there for many years. I’m acquainted with an otherwise decent individual residing in a western state who apparently has been indoctrinated into this myth - largely I think through social, cultural & religious associations. I’m not skilled enough to refute this distorted interpretation of American history (in their mind) - though I know it wrong. I can scream and rail against it of course - but it’s hard to change a convert’s mind. They be “dug-in” pretty hard.
  • Thus the conundrum we're in. Slavery was the excuse for secession, back when. But not every "Slave State" did actually secede: Delaware, MO, K-Y. (Giggle.) Maryland, too. Uncle Abe PREVENTED MD fro seceding before they could do it. (Pro-secession legislature and Gov.) And Wash, D.C. allowed SALE of slaves, but not slave ownership, isn't that right? Or maybe it was the other way around.

    West Virginia seceded from the Confederacy. Today, they are deep-Red boneheads. But the half of the country which has drunk too much of the Nativist/Trumpist Kool-Aid is over, under, around, through and in the midst of the rest of us, now. Impossible to strain-out with a colander. I know! BRILLIANT idea: we'll offer to pay their way to Liberia, eh? ..... Hank is quite correct. When it comes to such deep-seeded (seated?) convictions, it takes a hugely dramatic, tremendous event or a God-like appearance of some extraordinary person, to get the leopard to change his spots.

    ...And it's increasingly difficult for folks like myself. I know a deep-Red racist bonehead when I see one. I don't want to be identified with THEM. And I know a Repugnant Party brainwashed ignoramus when I see one. I am certainly not one of THEM. Yet neither am I able to swallow the Politically Correct, loosey-goosey ultra-Left crapola, either. Socialism is not the Devil Incarnate. But there are distinctions to be made which are just obvious, healthy and true. Not every idea is good and beneficial, because it is supported by some "oppressed" minority. Non-binary sex? Fine, bring on the honey badgers! ORK.
  • + 1 The Civil War ended slavery , but unfortunately not the White Supremacy/Anti-Multiculturalism mindset too many Americans are in thrall to !
  • edited April 2021
    They like to throw that “Anglo Saxon” around ... Just a better sounding subterfuge for white power. Amazing how the right can seize on commonplace (relatively innocent) words and symbols and subvert them to emblems of their perverted ideology.
  • From Lewis’s article,
    House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, tweeted Friday afternoon, “The Republican Party is the party of Lincoln & the party of more opportunity for all Americans—not nativist dog whistles.”

    GOP conference chair Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, responded to the reporting about the new caucus from Greene in a tweet.

    “Republicans believe in equal opportunity, freedom, and justice for all. We teach our children the values of tolerance, decency and moral courage,” she wrote. “Racism, nativism, and anti-Semitism are evil. History teaches we all have an obligation to confront & reject such malicious hate.”
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