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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Battle of Our Lives: Confederates, Nazis and the Continuing Danger of Insurrectionists
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Steven Beschloss
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Its as if they dont grasp the Civil War is over & the Confederacy lostthat pursuing the same dark path of hatred & cruelty & denial of equal rights, indeed human rights, is somehow a way forward for America rather than the last gasp of a dying breed.
The Battle of Our Lives
Confederates, Nazis and the Continuing Danger of Insurrectionists
america.substack.com
8:11 AM · Jul 16, 2021
Steven Beschloss
@StevenBeschloss
Its as if they dont grasp the Civil War is over & the Confederacy lostthat pursuing the same dark path of hatred & cruelty & denial of equal rights, indeed human rights, is somehow a way forward for America rather than the last gasp of a dying breed.
The Battle of Our Lives
Confederates, Nazis and the Continuing Danger of Insurrectionists
america.substack.com
8:11 AM · Jul 16, 2021
https://america.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-our-lives
Every time I think we can move forward as a nation, the dark forces keep pulling us down. This is the battle of our lives, playing out in real time, right in front of our eyes. There was a time when the political divisions and confrontations seemed more nuanced, more civil, more likely to end in a tolerable middle ground. Not now. Not as long as we are faced with a major party that has abandoned democracy and denies knowable truth with the goal of getting and keeping power, even if it requires a sociopathic commitment to cruelty, injustice and political violence.
The confederates lost. The Nazis lost. No, Republicans, were not down for a do-over.
Over the last four years, Id often tweet and ask myself: Do I really have to say things that should be so obvious? But I came to realize that Trump and the damage he and his enablers were causing required an assertion of first principles.
On Tuesday, President Biden spoke clearly about the assault on voting rights and the Big Lie of election fraud. He called it the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. He also called it a "21st Century Jim Crow assault," harking back to denying enslaved people full citizenship until after the Civil War and the poll taxes, literacy tests and Ku Klux Klan campaigns of violence and terror that lasted into the 50s and 60s.
Add to this the attempt by Republicans to rile up the racist and uneducated contingent by claiming theres no such thing as systemic racism and stoking the idea that so-called critical race theory must be canceled at all costs. Its as if they dont grasp that the Civil War is over and the Confederacy lostthat pursuing the same dark path of hatred and cruelty and denial of equal rights, indeed human rights, is somehow a way forward for America rather than the last gasp of a dying breed.
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The Battle of Our Lives: Confederates, Nazis and the Continuing Danger of Insurrectionists (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2021
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I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)1. Let's hope that dying breed
Dies faster.
Nevilledog
(50,685 posts)2. That they meet their "Delta Dawn" perhaps?
PortTack
(32,606 posts)3. It isn't spreading near as quickly in the blue states...that's for sure