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46. The problem with this country is that we are not one nation.

Tue Feb 25, 2014, 01:42 PM

Feb 2014

We are a poorly stitched quilt of 50 little nations, and some of those little nations are comprised of bigots. That's the difference between a republic and our form of government. I have lived in other countries and some hick province couldn't get away with the kind of discrimination that some states get away with in the US.

It's as if the civil rights and women's rights movements never existed. What did that generation fight for if we have to keep re-fighting the same battles over and over again?

Sometimes this country makes me sick and embarrassed.

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