Something has been bugging me since I read about Huckabee being super-supportive of asshats who love their Confederate flags. Basically, we *know* racism still exists in this country, and that it is given a wink and a nod by the Republican party. That's not news. But what bothers me is why any honest American does it at all.
I mean, we beat the Japanese army and navy and even banned them from using their flag without permission for a time after the war. And that's a foreign country.
The so-called Confederate flag we all are familiar with is a frigging battle flag, people. It isn't even a political symbol, much less a historic one for the South as it is argued. What it actually is - if you want to accept Bush-era language - is a treasonous symbol of insurrection and, since we're arguing the point, anyone who flies it and/or supports it should be flagged as an enemy combatant and deported and shoved down the nearest off-shore rat-hole to be deterred indefinitely and without charge or means to a court of law.
Honestly, wouldn't that take care of at least a few million of our racists and cow the rest of the bastards into silence? I mean, they are the assholes who voted for Bush. They should reap the benefits of the laws they so approved of him breaking and the quasi-martial law he has since put into place. It would serve them right anyway.
Anyway, more on Huckabee's white supremacist support. And one article about some wise-ass politician in Colorado who is probably a Hillary supporter.
Of course Huckabee is the asshat who wondered recently if Jesus and Satan are brothers to Mormons. Racism AND religious freak in one candidate! If nothing else, Huckabee will make normal Americans less reactionary to LDS members if he keeps it up.
CNN says the Clintons have been playing "good cop/bad cop". The problem is, I don't really see a lot of "good cop" in the things Hillary says. Never mind the fact that she just stands quietly by as her proxies try to fuel the fires of racism in this country. Even silence counts as acquiescence.
Meanwhile, Obama is taking a stand against Bill Clinton's recent bouts of BS and will confront the ex-prez on the many occasions he has been wrong of late. I know Bill loves a good campaign, but his being a total dick really isn't doing a damn thing for his legacy.
And the Clintons must get totally excited about the fact that Southern Whites are finding it hard to think they can vote for Obama. Doesn't surprise me but you'd hope for better in this country. Then again, with Bush, Cheney, and FAUXNews feeding the fires of racial intolerance, I guess I shouldn't hope for much.
I keep meaning to find a home for this link and this post might just as well do. Your "compassionate conservative" friends are asking each other if multiculturalism aids the terrorists.
"What's going to happen now? Will I need a passport to get into my own back yard?"- Nydia Garcia, San Benito, TX on the feds trying to steal her land to build a ridiculous wall
That's about as ridiculous as believing a wall will keep out illegal immigrants. According to this article, border residents do not want a wall and do not think it will work. Michael Chertoff puts the lie to the GOP platform of not wanting big government imposing their will on people's rights and their land by suing 71 Texas families who don't want to give up their land. Here's another homeowner who does not want a wall in their backyard. Some of these folks have had this land in their family before the US even planted its flag in their neighborhood.
Even more damning is the federal seizure of Apache tribal lands. So much for respecting them as a sovereign nation.
Republicans, give up all pretense to your so-called beliefs or stop the fascists that have taken over your party. Otherwise, shut the hell up and get out of the way.
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