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doc03

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4. I just heard her response yesterday about slavery. She said of course it was about slavery

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Fri Dec 29, 2023, 09:46 AM

Dec 2023

then went on about it being individual freedom. It was about government not telling you what you can do or
not do. What I heard was you should be free to own slaves, it isn't the government's job to tell you what to do.
She never said she was against slavery from what I heard. The old state's rights bs.

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*If* the "Democrat' Party in fact "loved" slavery, no_hypocrisy Dec 2023 #1

I'm saying at the time of the war the party's roles were reversed. Getting that question in a GOP debate wold have been prodigitalson Dec 2023 #5

It was a political realignment. There have been other realignments too. mobeau69 Dec 2023 #8

'at least we learned our lesson.....y'all embrace it' samnsara Dec 2023 #2

Maybe, but why bail them out? Vogon_Glory Dec 2023 #3

I'm just saying that was an easy question to pander with and she couldn't figure it out prodigitalson Dec 2023 #6

I just heard her response yesterday about slavery. She said of course it was about slavery doc03 Dec 2023 #4

she is well versed in the lost cause myth and that is what she went to prodigitalson Dec 2023 #7