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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Many Lessons of Nov 22. (And how Conservatives learned the wrong lesson.)
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The Many Lessons of Nov 22. (And how Conservatives learned the wrong lesson.) (Original Post)
riqster
Nov 2013
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Good stuff here. Thanks riqster ....
After Kennedys assasination, many groups of people learned many lessons: The city of Dallas learned that being the City of Hate was NOT a good thing, and has been trying to change ever since that terrible day. The radical Left thought the lesson was violence works, and tried it themselves. They quickly realized that they learned the wrong lesson, and stopped doing that stupid s***. The civil rights movement learned that conservatives were even crazier and more violent than they thought, and changed tactics as a result.
Liberals learned that when conservatives used hateful and violent rhetoric, they really mean it, and started using the courts to try to make their own assassinations less likely. And the Conservatives that caused the Kennedy killing? Why, theyre doing the same thing to Obama that they did to Kennedy: hate speech, violent rhetoric, ad nauseum nay, ad infinitum. They still think that the lesson of 11/22 is violence works.
Which once again shows that those stupid f***s couldnt poor pee out of a boot without a thirty-page instruction manual: in fact, they probably wouldnt even read the thing at all, and just wind up making a terrible, stinking mess. No, what happened as a result of the assassination of Kennedy (and Kennedy, and King) was the beatification of them as individuals and the advancement of their agendas. So, the Raging Righties in their Tightie Whities pretty clearly havent got a f***ing clue as to what they did in 1963, or what theyre doing now, or the consequences of either.
They helped to kill a sitting President with their words and actions fifty years ago today. They are trying to do it again, because they were never held to account for their despicable actions back then. So maybe the lesson that Republicans learned from 11/22/63 was this: We got away with it. Lets do it again. It certainly looks that way, doesnt it?
riqster
(13,986 posts)2. Thanks back atcha Scuba.
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(13,986 posts)4. Thanks! nt