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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jan 19, 2021, 10:39 AM Jan 2021

Trump's 1776 Commission defends nation's founding, compares progressivism to racism



BY CELINE CASTRONUOVO - 01/19/21 09:22 AM EST

Members of President Trump’s 1776 Commission are calling for “patriotic education that teaches the truth of America” and identifying “progressivism” and “racism and identity politics” among the challenges to America’s principles.

The commission, officially established by Trump in November, argues in a report released on the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday that Americans must “stand up to the petty tyrants in every sphere who demand that we speak only of America’s sins while denying her greatness” while not “ignoring the faults in our past.”

The report also condemns claims that the founding fathers were “hypocrites” for advancing rights and freedoms for “all men” while defending the practice of slavery.

“This charge is untrue, and has done enormous damage, especially in recent years, with a devastating effect on our civic unity and social fabric,” the commission writes.

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Trump's 1776 Commission defends nation's founding, compares progressivism to racism (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2021 OP
Whose idea was that really? tanyev Jan 2021 #1
SMMFH! Lokee11 Jan 2021 #2

tanyev

(49,294 posts)
1. Whose idea was that really?
Tue Jan 19, 2021, 10:43 AM
Jan 2021

The only commission Donny would come up with is a Commission on President Donald Trump's Awesomeness.

Lokee11

(407 posts)
2. SMMFH!
Tue Jan 19, 2021, 11:14 AM
Jan 2021

These people are either astoundingly stupid or incredibly evil!

The timing of the things that they do, the method in which they do it, such cowards! Always couching things in such a way that they can deny their true intent if confronted with it. They truly disgust me! In writing this right now I am thinking that they truly are incredibly evil with the intent of directing the astoundingly stupid .

“This charge is untrue, and has done enormous damage, especially in recent years, with a devastating effect on our civic unity and social fabric,” the commission writes. - FUCK YOU! What is untrue you lying, projecting, evil fucks?!?!? They practiced slavery, while at the same time preached equality, they literally stated "All men are created equal" then knowingly enslaved men! If that is not hypocrisy, what the fuck is??????

The only way to move forward is to be honest with the sins that have been committed in the past, to not shy away from your truth but accept it, and know it, and vow to never let it happen again!

Just like present day, there can be no healing without accountability, there can be no unity until they admit and accept what they have done, and atone for their mistakes. The only way some can atone for me is by leaving this fucking earth, I shall never forgive certain people, never - but I think and I hope most are better than me.

Regardless, you cannot fix the problem, if you don't admit there is a problem to fix - that is just simple and all there is to it!

So, that opening line above is incorrect - These people ARE incredibly evil and leading the astoundingly stupid!

“What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.”
― Rafael Sabatini

They are ALL cowards to the highest degree!

FDT!

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