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The Entitlement Society 0

A Twits on Twitter An X Offender.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Michael in Norfolk decodes de code.

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A Quibble 0

Methinks Michael in Norfolk made a typo.

He missplet “1850s.”

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

The New Secesh are now phoning it in.

Expect more like this, folks.

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The Rule of Flaw 0

I go to sleep worrying about the American dream.

I wake up to the American scream.

I am not sanguine.

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Still Rising after All These Years 0

If at first you can’t secede, try, try again.

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The Confluence 0

Steve M. takes a look at this weekend’s Trump rally in Madison Square Garden (which, I must note, is neither square nor located at Madison Square, but I digress), where Trump’s supporters openly flaunted their racism, and notes an overlap. Here’s a bit about the overlap:

Did yesterday’s rally seem like the work of an organized, dangerous fascist party? Yes — but the rally’s rhetoric also seemed like ordinary casual conversation among bigoted white men when they think no one can hear them.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Mailboxing it in.

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“They Want Apartheid Back” 0

Thom talks with a caller about why some people vote Republican, even though Republicans’ “policies” are inimical to their health and well-being. He offers a simple explanation.

As someone who grew up under Jim Crow and remembers my Daddy making sure he had paid his poll taxes, who was in school during desegregation, who trained in U. S. History with an emphasis on U. S. Southern, and who freaking pays attention to what’s going on, I find it difficult to take exception to Thom’s argument.

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Jackie Calmes makes a compelling case that Donald Trump has shown us who he really is many times.

The question is, “Are enough people paying attention?”

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

It seems clear that Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” has come full circle and that today’s Republican Party has devolved into the party of the Secesh.

Here’s yet another example.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Sometimes, despite their best efforts, the mask slips off.

Via Atrios.

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Kindred Spirits 0

Hitler holds a Nazi flag.  A Klansman holds the Stars and Bars.  Both ask,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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Vance Planning 0

. . . in case you needed any more evidence that today’s Republican Party is little more than the party of the New Secesh.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Thom talks with Greg Palast about Palast’s new film detailing Republicans’ efforts to deny American citizens their right to vote.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Rebecca Watson hears a rhyme:

Or you can read the transcript.

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*Mark Twain.

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Over at Truthout, Carol Anderson, professor of African American studies at Emory University, decodes de code.

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At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson decodes de code.

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As I have mentioned before in these electrons, Dr. William Shade, one of my history professors back in the olden days when I was a young ‘un, was found of saying, “History is irony.”

In the midst of a larger column focusing on a notion of immigrants, AL.com’s John Archibald notes such an irony (emphasis added):

The history the (Confederate–ed.) battle flag represents is less about the Civil War than it is the rebellion against civil rights and Alabama’s rewriting of history. It was flown as a way to fight desegregation, to glorify the past and justify the actions of ancestors who went to war against their own country rather than to release people from slavery.

Alabama is so afraid of “divisive concepts” that it won’t let students study the sins associated with that flag. But counties can run ‘em up the flagpole and call that history.

Follow the link for context.

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