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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

Again Thom has highlighted the Grievances On Parade Party’s greatest hits- evil stupidity reigns supreme with the current crop of Republican legislators. Here are the important issues facing Americans according to these idiots. Investigations of Hunter Biden just because “something something” “he got rich off his father’s influence “!!. Going after AG Garland because GASP! The DOJ is actually investigating a criminal ex-president and his criminal cabal. How unfair! How dare a twice impeached scam artist conman be held accountable! Investigating Dr. Fauci because “something something Chinese lab bio-weapons evil scientist payments”! Oh and let’s not forget the “russher”investigation investigating the investigators by Barr/Durham because “we all know tRump is innocent and he was framed by Hillary “ narrative that ended with embarrassing acquittals. And secession? America already tried that and it was a disaster for the south in which many still idolize the traitors to this day. Part of me says let them secede- don’t let the door hit you in the A where the good lord split ya! However, I am adult enough to worry about those who would suffer from divorce from our federal government system- the POC who have a hard enough struggle and the poor and elderly dependent on programs. Of course MTG and her ilk have no viable solutions for America’s problems- they are locked in on power at all costs with hate at the core of their ideology.

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Your last paragraph Thom: "And as long as we ignore that hand and fight their phony “culture war” instead of raising taxes on billionaires and extending an absolute right to vote to all Americans, we’re just helping them stuff another trillion dollars taken from working people into their money bins."

The culture war is not phony to those on the losing side, like gays, trans, blacks, women.

I think I know what you mean. The culture war is a distraction while they pick our pockets and cement control over our lives.Distraction is a tool, but the culture war is merely a battle not a war, a battle looks like a war for those in the midst fighting for their lives

Unreconstructed confederates will tell you that the civil war was unnecessary because the south would have eventually freed the slaves, glossing over the fact that millions would have lived as chattel until that happened, but that was not the reason the war was fought.

South Carolina seceded because the Federal Government would not enshrine slavery as the law of the land

The Civil War was but one manifestation of the culture war The Culture War predates, even the founding of America, we are dealing with it its current manifestation. The Hundred Years war was a culture war. The puritan Anglians were involved in a culture war. The Brownists who hired the Mayflower to leave Leiden, Holland were culture warriors. Their sons who burned witches were culture warriors, Roger Williams who was expelled from Massachusetts and founded what became Rhode Island was a culture warrior, so was Benjamin Franklin who fled Massachusetts for the same reason.

I am a cultural warrior as is MTG, Just like the boys in blue and gray were civil warriors.

The bottom line of culture wars is dominance, power, control, subjugation/elimination of the competition. Which is exactly what is happening in the world, in America, in Ukraine, in politics.

Politics is actually culture war, by another name. Its ultimate goal is zero sum, win lose, total domination and to get there compromise and conciliation are merely tactical tools, part of a strategic plan to obtain a desired result. The complete, but invisible, control of resources, which includes the ultimate resource,, humans,and when technology makes their labor no longer necessary, they too can be dispensed with, except for those that are absolutely necessary to keep the machine serviced.

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