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Shell_Seas

(3,332 posts) Wed Jun 23, 2021, 01:42 AM Jun 2021

GOP Use States' Rights Argument As Reason To Undermine Democracy

Democracy is in trouble and the GOP is blaming State's Rights. If you're from the South, you know exactly what they mean when they say "States' Rights."

https://livingbluetx.com/2021/06/states-rights-argument/

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GOP Use States' Rights Argument As Reason To Undermine Democracy (Original Post) Shell_Seas Jun 2021 OP

Yep. calimary Jun 2021 #1

They used that argument to justify keeping African Americans as slave RAB910 Jun 2021 #2

calimary

(81,220 posts)

1. Yep.

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Wed Jun 23, 2021, 04:41 AM

Jun 2021

RAB910

(3,501 posts)

2. They used that argument to justify keeping African Americans as slave

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Wed Jun 23, 2021, 08:58 AM

Jun 2021

now they are using the same argument to justify taking away their right to vote. Thanks to the sick indoctrination laws anti-American Republicans are passing kids will even learn about slavery

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