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agingdem

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2. my parents were Holocaust survivors...

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #1)

Sat May 23, 2020, 12:14 PM

May 2020

I know exactly what the swastika means but to most people this is something that happened a very long time ago..last chapters in a history book...but to the uneducated white underclass the swastika represents power..power over people of color, muslims, jews, gays, disabled... that's why trump is their guy..and that's why they can wave a nazi flag without fear of reprisal..he took their fomenting hate for "the other" out of the shadows and into the White House...

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I idiot out of an entire state. jimfields33 May 2020 #1

my parents were Holocaust survivors... agingdem May 2020 #2

Illogical. Karadeniz May 2020 #3