Tweet of the evening:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[Skittles]

1. or shame

yes indeed

[applegrove]

2. Shame is painful. Accepting they are intolerant and stopping scapegoating

others also hurts.... They can't dump their s***/load on others.

[Skittles]

3. you are correct

I often think repukes do not have the capability of feeling shame

[stillcool]

4. give up the hate and lies

and who would they be? Their self-identity is wrapped up in layers of bullshit.

[Demobrat]

5. Hate makes powerless people feel powerful

It gives them someone to look down on. Without it they have to admit that they are the bottom of the barrel socially and economically.

[Duppers]

6. Indeed....LBJ...

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

[empedocles]

10. Amazing quote. Seems like we still don't appreciate how amazing LBJ was, or

that his impossible achievemts are still easily, the highwater mark for the Dems.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Oh, my.

That simple quote deserves hours of discussion.

[summer_in_TX]

8. To see oneself and one's country clearly,

instead of through the lens of wishful thinking and denial, is painful.

I've been in a learning and grieving space since reading the 1619 Project and learning about Ahmed Arbury and especially George Floyd.

[JI7]

9. Their own failures and faults

[calimary]

11. What a great quote!

Keeping it.

[smirkymonkey]

12. +1000

Yes, exactly. Pain, and also fear. Incredible fear.