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November 2020 US Election

W. K. Lis said:
Why was Donald Trump at an American Independence Day celebration? Isn't the Confederate Independence Day on February 22nd?
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As far as he's concerned, they're *both* valid, because they're both part of American history. He really isn't capable of deep thinking re the whys and wherefores of the Civil War; he just sees Confederate flags, and they register as a form of "American pride" to him. For him, history is pride and pageantry. *History* history is boring and too-often inconvenient stuff. People are impressed by big statues; they can't be bothered reading the plaques. Etc.
 
adma said:
As far as he's concerned, they're *both* valid, because they're both part of American history. He really isn't capable of deep thinking re the whys and wherefores of the Civil War; he just sees Confederate flags, and they register as a form of "American pride" to him. For him, history is pride and pageantry. *History* history is boring and too-often inconvenient stuff. People are impressed by big statues; they can't be bothered reading the plaques. Etc.
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...especially with four big in-situ statues of presidents in South Dakota on a granite mountain vandalized (with approval from the American government) by a Klansman with said mountain being sacred to the Native Americans living there until the United States Army forcibly kicked them out. The mountain and the vandalism on it are better known as Mount Rushmore.

This:

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One of the best-known examples of government-approved vandalism of a cultural heritage site by a hatemonger

Happy Independence Day!
 
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Do you really think that when Trump visits someplace like Gettysburg, he really grasps which side is which? For him, the Civil War was probably little more than an extreme fighting match; then at the end, the two sides shook hands, and everyone lived happily ever after. Simple as that.
 
Yeah, the Civil War as something appealing to Trump's "entertainment" instinct. Putting on a show for the camera, yet being buds in real life. Kind of like Tom & Jerry, or Popeye & Bluto.

Nobody's an *enemy* enemy, except for those humourless far-left Antifa statue-topplers. Why so serious, bud?

Why, the extreme left can't even keep their fingers off the show...
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