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Past is important because the main point is that the same people who are fighting to restrict liberty, freedom and dignity for people on the basis of skin color today are the same people who venerate an evil cause with nostalgic delusions about its nobility. Freedom means freedom — PolitiTweet.org

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Who saw slavery give way to a new tyranny. There are no virtues to celebrate in the life of Robert Lee of Virginia. He was a traitor and a cruel slave master. The Confederacy was an evil cause that blights us still. Whitewashed history weakens the nation. This argument about the — PolitiTweet.org

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Jim Crow followed and another 85 plus years of full on racial terror and injustice until the Jim Crow South fell. The truth is that the South needed another generation of occupation. The defeated South built their new Confederacy on the shattered dreams and hopes of freed slaves — PolitiTweet.org

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Rights legislation in 1866, the 14th Amendment and the election of the self styled Radical Republicans who put the South under military occupation and sought to break the culture of the defeated slave nation. Reconstruction ended in 1877 with corrupt political horse trading. — PolitiTweet.org

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Confederate veterans attacked freed slaves and Black Union Army veterans. The New Orleans massacre similarly was an attack by a white mob of Confederate soldiers against peaceful black citizens and Union Army veterans. These attacks were instrumental in helping pass Civil — PolitiTweet.org

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Honor and virtue within it. The Confederate Army went home, defeated, but carrying the racial malice of the Confederacy in their hearts. There were two racial massacres in 1866. One was in Memphis and the other in New Orleans. The Memphis massacre began when white cops and — PolitiTweet.org

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He called the Union Army to attention as the vanquished Confederate soldiers lay down their battle flags and went home. Honor was a very different societal concept in 1865. The South lost the war but the victors allowed the fiction to root that the evil cause could accommodate — PolitiTweet.org

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in the Southern cause and that the war was about things other than slavery. It was entirely about slavery. The eight times wounded, fighting professor from Maine who spoke seven languages, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, was given the honor of accepting the Confederate surrender. — PolitiTweet.org

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forever ended but the culture that held the ambition to create one was not defeated. With peace, a traumatized nation moved forward and tried to heal. It was this desire that fueled the great lie in our American story. The great lie was that there was honor and virtue — PolitiTweet.org

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It would have killed 7 million people. The war wasn’t just inevitable, it was predestined by the presence of the evil of human slavery on American soil. The war was just, necessary, brutal, tragic and unfinished. The idea of a separate slave nation in the Northern Hemisphere was — PolitiTweet.org

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to understanding who we are as a nation and facing the great national myth that at long lasts demands a full reckoning. The American Civil War was the first industrialized war in history. It killed 2.5 percent of the population and if it was fought today, adjusted for population — PolitiTweet.org

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Lincoln’s martyrdom enshrined his greatness in our collective memory. Less discussed is the epic tragedy caused by the loss of his singular wisdom, goodness, pragmatism and deft political hand at shaping the post Civil War world. The years that followed the Civil War are key — PolitiTweet.org

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a speech that outlines the obligations of American citizenship. If the day comes when bad citizens outnumber dutiful ones then we will lose government of the people by the people for the people. — PolitiTweet.org

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do his full duty, and endeavor so to live as to deserve the high praise of being called a good American Citizen”. Do we have a citizenship crisis in America? Certainly, there is a crisis when the majority of ELECTED GOP office holders are the dangerous forces TR warns about in — PolitiTweet.org

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Indolence and timidity, perils springing from the greed of the unscrupulous rich....there is every reason to recognize them, but there is no reason why we should fear them or doubt our capacity to overcome them, if only each will, according to the measure of his ability, — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ we should neither overestimate them nor shrink from them, but steadily fronting them should set to work to overcome and beat them down. Grave perils are yet to be encountered in the stormy course of the Republic-perils from political corruption, perils from individual laziness — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ “ In facing the future and striving, each according to the measure of his individual capacity, to work out the salvation of our land, we should be neither timid pessimists or foolish optimists. We should recognize the dangers that exist and that threaten us: — PolitiTweet.org

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I like old quotes that stand the test of time and that can be applied to our current circumstances. I’ve always been fascinated by language and specifically the hinges where the language of one era and time gives way to another. Here is a quote👇 by Teddy Roosevelt to ponder 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Can’t see the fight, the threat or the danger. @JoeManchinWV is one of them and that is how we lose the country. @ProjectLincoln. High minded calls for bipartisanship with a hungry wolf pack that is content to tear our democracy to pieces is not virtuous. It is appeasement. — PolitiTweet.org

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Esteem than the US Constitution which was assaulted on 1/6. The filibuster should be repealed for the moral purposes of 1. Defending democracy, 2. investigating the insurrection 3/protecting and expanding voting rights. The fight we are in is existential. The problem is, many — PolitiTweet.org

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The biggest thing that @JoeManchinWV doesn’t understand is that we cannot turn away from the great political conflict that will rage in this country for years. That is the consequence of Trump who remains a clear and present danger. A senate rule should not be held in higher — PolitiTweet.org

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What those voters share in common is their black and brown skin and the oppression that came with it in a country that must never retreat in the long struggle and advance towards becoming what our highest ideals proclaim us to be . 10 — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoeManchinWV should be worried about. It exceeds the danger of GOP legislative reprisals in a post filibuster world by orders of magnitude. There have been hundreds of pieces of sinister legislation intro’d across America aimed at making it harder for Americans to vote. 9/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The repeal of the filibuster was necessary to pass the 1/6 Commission. @JoeManchinWV refusal to do so has sentenced the country to at least a decade of escalating political violence because there won’t be any accountability for a murderous insurrection. That is the threat that 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Manchin’s fears about filibuster retaliations in a future GOP controlled Congress are off base. American politics are zero sum now. There is a pro democracy side and an autocratic Trump side. The Trump side only has to win one election to end the American experiment. 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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.@JoeManchinWV, is another name on histories long roll of the willfully blind who approached danger with naïveté and certitude about the gentle intent of people who keep making it clear that its anything but. 6 — PolitiTweet.org

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The bipartisanship that @JoeManchinWV is talking about is a fantasy. The world that Manchin is inhabiting is a delusion. He doesn’t get that there is only bad faith to be found from the party of cowards that is both terrified of Trump and fully in league with him. 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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That movement poisoned faith and belief in our democracy with lies and bad faith. The lie is simple and inelegant at its core. It is that Trump won but black votes appeared out of the midnight ether and it was stolen. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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American democracy is in the greatest crisis we have faced since the Civil War. The Republican Party is controlled by Donald Trump and it is the malignant vessel by which Trump’s cult of personality metastasized into an autocratic movement. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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.@JoeManchinWV has laid out an argument that is deeply untethered to the realities of our current national crisis. His words float upwards like puffs of smoke from an ivory tower before they evaporate into nothingness because they were released into a world that doesn’t exist. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org