Who noticed?? How quickly ...

[Brian66]

... the conversation has been shifted from a domestic terrorist committing a heinous crime to nonsensical jabbering about the Confederate flag.

Our country has got to be the world's leader with a population that's so easily manipulated and propagandized.

"Let people believe that they're thinking and they'll love you. Require them actually to think and they'll hate you for it." -- Voltaire.

It's little wonder the bulk of the citizens take no part in meaningful discussion. We're addicted to one-liners and whatever we can squeeze into a couple of sentences on Twitter or Facebook, none of which has substance.

[yeoman6987]

1. To the party it is an important message, a large

percentage of out electorate don't like the flag for good reason. It is easy to minimize it when it may have a different meaning to you. We are on a positive track. Let's continue. The Democratic Party is doing good.

[onecaliberal]

2. There was also no mention on so called liberal

Media that fast track passed.

[daleanime]

4. +1

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Well I think most of us noticed that it had passed

but I guess the mainstream doesn't even know what fast track is.

[delrem]

3. There's nevertheless a connection between that domestic terrorism,

which has a rather large institutional element supporting it, and the use of the Confederate flag.

If you guys can't stop that flag from flying, you're fucked.

[Kalidurga]

5. The flag represents state sponsored hate and terror...

I think it's pretty fucking important that the traitorous flags come down. Just because we can say that with a one liner doesn't mean it is not an important idea. It is not nonsense to support AA people who see that flag fly over the state capitol after a heinous hate crime was committed against their community and after 9 people were killed. I have to wonder if you wandered in here by accident or if you really seriously think that it's a liberal stance that this is a silly issue.

[LiberalElite]

6. Kind of ironic post -

complaining about alleged lack of substance.

[Sunlei]

7. racists have shoved that flag into peoples faces for many decades! no one has to shut-up about it.

If only reconstruction wasn't stopped by the KKK and their GOV. buddies that rose up at the exact same time, the NRA we wouldn't be here today.

[FSogol]

8. From a racist domestic terrorist to removing state sponsored symbol of support for racism?

You see a problem with removing the flag from the Capital? You see a problem with improving out society by removing racist crap?