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7. I see it going as far back as the founding fathers owning slaves, then genocide of Native American

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Thu May 12, 2022, 12:26 PM

May 2022

Indians, then a civil war where Republican was the name used by the "good guys." I don't see it as different today -- just new labels and issues. "Follow the money" rules, regardless of the century and what individual politicians say and do. Sure Nixon and Regan were evil, but not in a vacuum.

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