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Ginger's avatar

In the 1920's, the KKK had several million members, including a big group here, in Denver. The KKK went to Germany and taught Hitler's 'Brown Shirts' how to roll. Really! Trump's father was a card-carrying member of the KKK; where do you think Trump got it? The greater the hate the greater the fear underlying it. To quote the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, 'Fear is a corrosive, evil thread running through the fabric of our lives.' The Germans, the Nazis hated Jews and Blacks because... they were afraid of them. As for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she's got hundreds of chicken farms (if you can call them that) and Walmart in her backyard - of course she supports child labor!

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After visiting Gettysburgh multiple times I will always associate President Eisenhower with that very important place where the powers of hate and human exploitation were defeated at great cost to this country. Gettysburgh is the place where the confederacy might have had its best chance to attack Washington had it won the battle - the place where the stakes were highest. It then became the place where president Lincoln defined American democracy - something being lost with the our "originalist" legal authorities measuring the core values of america only according to the standards of the 1780s.

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