Why are so many Americans defending the confederate flag, monuments and statues right now?

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15. It has instructional value, of course.

WE knew, and my argument to people was that Kamala was open to compassionate ideas, and was influencing Joe Biden in positive ways, and you saw the somewhat ill-fated relief effort at the time.

The "other" never did a good work in his life, but bamboozled people with the racist garbage, outright lies that people wanted to believe, and a massive propaganda campaign against Joe, with proven assistance by a deluge of Russian bots.

It's in my "editorial"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/13243851

Those who voted against "Genocide Joe" guaranteed the massacre and destruction of Gaza by Bibi and his right wing ally Trump. Those who believed the utter bullshit of lower prices guaranteed higher prices, fattening the fatcats, and consequent destruction of social services and national security by Donald Chamberlain.

Now, how do we improve this situation?
Some tentative ideas in my "editorial"
A lot is about getting out the vote, and spreading the message RIGHT NOW is what Bernie and AOC have been doing, and which I believe is the key to winning. Put ideas in peoples' minds before the hate cannon fires endlessly.

But that's the nut to crack.
People ignored the obvious and the lies.
They were told the garbage they wanted to hear.



I am open to ideas how to move forward from this awful situation.