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(115,899 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)LAGC
(5,330 posts)New knowledge to me.
I can't believe what incredible trials and hardships folks had to endure back then...
We definitely weren't taught about that in our white-washed American history classes in school... no-sir-ee, bob.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)LAGC
(5,330 posts)Karl Marx was right.
History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, second as farce.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,899 posts)I'd never heard that expression. Just horrific. I'll never understand how people can be so vicious to each other.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,899 posts)nolabear
(41,995 posts)Puts it right out there in stark terms.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)All this crap has to backfire for the very reason his base is going bonkers. America hasn't healed its ugly ways yet. But we've come far enough that there's no turning back the clock.
Meantime, he feeds them nuggets like this so they can stop sucking their lapels and running their fingers through the carpeting for a little while at least.