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liberalmuse

(18,670 posts)
4. The Confederacy needs to die.
Wed May 15, 2019, 10:22 AM
May 2019

It literally died after the Civil War, but ideologically, it's still alive and has been dragging American down for over 150 years now. We have seen first hand what happens to racist, undereducated, impoverished, religiously zealous states. They become human shit holes. I feel so bad for the majority of people who are stuck in these places. Ensuring people aren't living in poverty and have access to a classical education would go far in preventing their being hijacked by special interests who don't give a shit about the people they're supposed to be representing. This actually goes for the entire country. We've allowed ourselves to be hijacked.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ Leghorn21 May 2019 #1
Bookmarked, good ideas for protest signs. blueinredohio May 2019 #2
K&R Solly Mack May 2019 #3
The Confederacy needs to die. liberalmuse May 2019 #4
Yep colsohlibgal May 2019 #5
+1000 smirkymonkey May 2019 #17
Cut them loose and let them go. paleotn May 2019 #25
perhaps more importantly, cab67 May 2019 #6
I'm sure that one of the reasons Amazon chosen NoVA spooky3 May 2019 #13
A big, fat K&R CaliforniaPeggy May 2019 #7
Hey! Where's Iowa? We passed that stupid fucking bill first. rurallib May 2019 #8
Yes rurallib efilon May 2019 #27
cant sere two masters . AllaN01Bear May 2019 #9
Those pamphlets that docters give out when Doreen May 2019 #10
denying abortions to women, and sometimes girls, who have been raped is demigoddess May 2019 #11
My God, somehow we're back in a 1960 timeloop FakeNoose May 2019 #12
Exactly. We're rapidly falling backwards. Totally Tunsie May 2019 #15
Rapidly becoming closer to 1860 MasonDreams May 2019 #24
felons can't vote. Coincidence? Kurt V. May 2019 #14
k&r DesertRat May 2019 #16
Time to treat Alabama like South Africa during apartheid. bluecollar2 May 2019 #18
I agree.Go all Indiana on them. Lifelong Protester May 2019 #22
We need to call it the shithole state advisory. Hassler May 2019 #19
What a great pic from Washington Post. iluvtennis May 2019 #20
Great Pic! Lifelong Protester May 2019 #21
All the abortion laws sounds as if the 'women' commited this horable sin bonniebgood May 2019 #23
Is a hellhole similar to a shithole? Amaryllis May 2019 #26
K & R! 50 Shades Of Blue May 2019 #28
Art Imitating Life - I Love It! corbettkroehler May 2019 #29
Good idea. Boycott the Patriarchy McCamy Taylor May 2019 #30
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