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Gordon's avatar

I sadly concur with your ENTIRE assessment Jeff. One of the fuckwads that chastised the “two Justins” in Tennessee had the audacity to compare what the “Justins” did (speak up about gun violence from the “well” of their House chamber) to the January 6th insurrection. I just watched a police captain in Louisville once again ask for “prayers” right after lamenting that one of his friends was killed and another seriously injured in the shooting that occurred this morning. God forbid one of these assholes ever takes a stand against the gun lobby. Another Substack writer asks in his column if it’s time for the Left to start ‘buying guns’? The Republicans, as repulsive and repugnant as they are, have operated at State and local levels with gerrymandering and election laws that really make it hard for the Dems to maneuver. We must do better....But it’s so hard to combat the DERANGED!

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Karen Katzenyammer's avatar

My outrage has been at red hot nuclear levels since these stories broke last week. This is not normal! What is happening with the Republicans is not normal. I have always been liberal but both my parents were your average conservatives who leaned Republican. If they were racist they hid it well since many of their friends were Black. If they were homophobes they hid that well since they had other friends who were out by the time we met them in the 70s. These were not just people they knew. These were people who came over and we went to their homes for get togethers. We were never church people so religion was just something that was out there if you wanted to participate.

Now for the part that doesn't make sense. My dad was from the South. His parents good ole Southern Baptists. Not sure how he escaped the racist gene or the religion gene. And then he had the audacity to go and marry the enemy. Mom was a child in WWII Nazi Germany living in Berlin with a Jewish Grandfather. Kind of living in plain sight kind of thing. But a decade later they met and after a few years got married. But to my American Grandmother she was the enemy. These two people raised 3 liberal kids. How is it that we can not all just accept that nobody is our enemy or to be hated? How do you rid yourself of racist bigoted behavior? Well one way is to be woke. My old generation conservative parents were Woke but we called it Aware.

Todays Republicans would horrify them.

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