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These people are easily led, they are manipulated by fear and by imaginary grace of God. They’ve been convinced it’s them against utter destruction/loss of importance. I can only hope the fair minded among them will sober up and realize that they are not ‘winning’ and making democracy strong......they are attempting to destroy the very foundation....they may not understand it right now....but these so-called ‘conservatives’ will start turning on each other. When you are in a contest to be the most righteous everybody loses. Those ‘good, decent, Christian hypocrites will be shooting each other in the back.

That’s from where I think the whiff of desperation emanates. Think of Jonestown and Kool aid.

Do you mean shooting each other in the Back the way the Democrat Congressional establishment recently did Al Franken?

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Do you mean shooting each other in the Back the way the Democrat Congressional establishment recently did Al Franken?

While the hasty jettisoning of Sen. Franken looked a bit unseemly I don't think it sinks to the level of shooting anyone in the back. It was a choreographed act of political theater, the various pluses and minuses carefully weighed and assessed.

Very glad to see Layman back on this thread. It had gotten very stale and repetitious, replete as it was with reading assignments from the master and a chorus of "amens" from the sheep.

He devotes an incredible amount of time trying to insult you, it illustrates my point about the desperation.

Although some posters put up ideas which others find reprehensible (from either side), I enjoy reading both sides. Whether I agree with or don't is of lower importance than having a full set of ideas presented. If I want only one side I can watch CNN or listen to Rush Limbaugh on one side and most of MSNBC and various radio persons, on the other.

I don't ignore the posters who are generally decent people on here.

glitterbag wrote:

He devotes an incredible amount of time trying to insult you, it illustrates my point about the desperation.

Not true. It appears to me he does it effortlessly as do you when applauding your master on signal.

Grant's vision of Reconstruction included federal enforcement of civil rights and spoke out against voter intimidation of Southern blacks. In his message to Congress in 1874, Grant wrote, "Treat the negro as a citizen and a voter, as he is and must remain, and soon parties will be divided, not on the color line, but on principle."He lobbied Congress to pass the Fifteenth Amendment, guaranteeing that no state could prevent someone from voting based on race, and believed that its passage would secure freedmen's rights.

To bolster the new amendment, Grant relied on the army and signed legislation creating the Justice Department, primarily to enforce federal laws in the South. Where the attorney general had once been only a legal adviser to the president, he now led a cabinet department dedicated to enforcing federal law, including a solicitor general to argue on the government's behalf in court.

Alarmed by a rise in terror by the Ku Klux Klan and other groups against African Americans, Congress enacted a far more sweeping measure, the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which for the first time designated certain crimes as punishable under federal law. In May 1871, Grant ordered federal troops to help marshals in arresting Klansmen. That October, Grant suspended habeas corpus in part of South Carolina and sent federal troops to enforce the law there.

I don't ignore the posters who are generally decent people on here.

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”