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Rhiannon12866

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2. Thanks for the article, I need to read the entirety.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 02:32 AM
Friday

That's one thing I've never understood, the unique wish to hang on to the memories of a war the South lost so badly - which still exists today. Living where I do, I'm much more familiar with the Revolutionary War, my grandmother grew up in "Old Saratoga" and we visited many museums and monuments with her. In fact, my great grandfather's farm is now located on the Saratoga Battlefield since one of the buildings was Revolutionary War vintage. And I grew up in nearby Saratoga Springs.

And the article I posted did hit home with me, we've seen TFG's obvious prejudices from the beginning, "Fine people on both sides," etc. But how he's gotten away with his obvious racism, which has gotten extreme in his deportations is tough to believe. We learned about the Civil Rights Movement in history classes, but it looks like the next generation will be prohibited from not only learning about that part of our history, but that we'll have to experience it all over again sometime in the future. And I come from immigrants just as every other American does and it boggles the mind that this bigot is allowed to decide who is welcome here and who is not.

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