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Go Commies!

Right, and also, that it was great once in some gauzy lace curtain past framed by Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, an America that never really existed for any but a very few, but that strongly animates the imagination of a lot of people who are essentially afraid of the present and the future.

You’re totally right, every president wants to make America great. I would simply stipulate that making America great is a very different concept from Making America Great Again.

It makes sense to me that many people don’t believe Confederate ideas and iconography are treasonous or even disloyal because about 100 years ago, i.e., about 50 years after the war between the states, there was a big national reconciliation between the southern states and the northern states. A lot of people recognized that the generation that fought that war was dying off, so people wanted to honor them on the way out. There were parades all over the country featuring veterans of both sides, and the sense that everyone (or at least every white one) is really on the same side, America’s side, after all. That idea was cemented by everyone fighting together against European enemies in the First World War. The South was rehabilitated as a vital part of America with a beautiful antebellum past to cherish and celebrate in cultural touchstones such as books, music, and movies. And, of course, to mobilize against a common enemy of their own making. All that peculiar thinking has been passed down through the generations and, as we can see, still persists today in a form much stronger then one might presume, considering it’s been over 100 years since the rehabilitation got under way. I believe this is a big reason many people see no problem with conflating the confederate flag with American ideals. In a lot of ways, the Confederate States was the United States, albeit with a stronger slavery institution.

Not for nothing, Ronald Reagan also wanted to Make America Great Again™.

What you say is absolutely right, and I also find it interesting how, just as Republican ideology is increasingly being revealed to be wearing no clothes, those same people are homing in on polarization along people in America as a big problem, which they never cared about before, and one that, of course, was created by teh left. All very sweet, isn’t it?

Right. Like just about any other myth, parts of it are sort of true, which they’ve glossed to a bright shine, and the rest of it they just made up to round out the story.

Since when is "bruh" an insult?

Another shooting at a Virginia college. 😥

I'm not a party guy. I'm a liberal. Learn the difference. Party or not, it was not simply a protest. People broke into the Capitol, violently attacking police to do so, and trawled the halls looking for congressional reps to force them to to give the presidency to the man who lost the election. There is video and sworn testimony attesting to all this. that is a fact, and it is not up for debate. Regardless of whether twenty thousand or whatever people in the crowd might not have unlawfully broken into the Capitol with the intention of forcing the election results to be thrown out, two thousand people did do that, so that's an insurrection, an attempted coup, and any other synonym that might be applied to it.

So it's finally official: Matthew Stafford ran Tom Brady out of football.

You're right in that the anti-American action of the Republicans belie their empty words.

Go to a national popular vote to determine the president and none of this is a problem anymore.

I'm not sure I agree that the modern GOP doesn't like America. They like a certain type of America that was prevalent once but no longer is . What they don't like is the America that's replacing it.

"Brah" is an insult? Who knew?

Who knows, maybe Trump gets his wish and they bring in Pence after all.

Selective data is. Brah.

Bunker doesn’t like Trump tho

Said nobody ever.

Anecdotes deal in examples and not data, so, yeah, anecdote.

Boris should have taken a “you're field” gig on ITV.

I’d be surprised if there weren’t a campaign of records destruction, however half-assed it might be. It lines right up with refusing to cooperate with subpoenas and lying about things in plain sight.

Well, he certainly can’t condemn the people who vote for him, can he?

Republicans caused all of it.

We were talking in generalities, but whatever, cool anecdote, brah.