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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJanuary 6, the day our blister burst on our Achilles Heel of Racism
That's what I hope it is. The blister has been building up since the party of Lincoln betrayed his legacy. So they got this "bag of puss" to march behind. And now that the fervent wishes of his followers to committ sedition by thought, word and deeds, has transpired, they have nowhere to hide.
A nice action by Congress has already been taken - the unnaming of confederate generals on our military bases.
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/9/21285097/army-base-name-change-confederacy-marines-navy
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January 6, the day our blister burst on our Achilles Heel of Racism (Original Post)
SleeplessinSoCal
Jan 2021
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I have the same sense - that this may be the straw that brakes the Camel's back.
42bambi
Jan 2021
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42bambi
(1,753 posts)1. I have the same sense - that this may be the straw that brakes the Camel's back.
Biophilic
(6,552 posts)2. I'm hoping for the same thing. Time to wake up and grow up. nt
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,412 posts)3. He has been exposed for all to see. When he looks in the mirror,
He sees:

While in reality for everyone else to see he's just another one of these:

"Jones and his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder-suicide of himself and his followers in his jungle commune at Jonestown."
Not all that different from MAGA

While in reality for everyone else to see he's just another one of these:

"Jones and his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder-suicide of himself and his followers in his jungle commune at Jonestown."
Not all that different from MAGA