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In reply to the discussion: When did so many (not all) "christians" become hateful psychopaths? [View all]Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)The people who really really wanted "equal representation" (that meant they could take over and turn this country into a clean white slate and upend all this racial equality crap) got pissed that their guy lost and went back to the side door dealings and brain washing methods.
He was someone who ran openly for President twice and his agenda is so present in the NEW rethug party, that it seems the KKK will continue to push that agenda wherever there is any vunerability thru any willing person, door, tv station etc....
The crusades and other political persecutions are top down decisions. The "ruling class" in the Church used to be made up of "excess nobility" and even if it is less now and the common person of faith's power more that it used to be, the decision making process does not go from the bottom up. So to blame a person of faith in the here and now for anything other than their own stupid decisions or uneducated opinions is being intolerant ourselves.
[link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke
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David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan an American activist and writer, and former Republican Louisiana State Representative. He was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1988 and the Republican presidential primaries in 1992. Duke has unsuccessfully run for the Louisiana State Senate, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and Governor of Louisiana.
A former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,[4][5] Duke describes himself as a racial realist, asserting that "all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage."[6] He is in strong opposition to what he asserts to be Jewish control of the Federal Reserve Bank, the federal government and the media. Duke supports stopping both legal and illegal Non-European immigration, preservation of what he labels Western culture and traditionalist Christian "family values", strict Constitutionalism, abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, voluntary racial segregation, ardent anti-communism and white separatism