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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton: I learned the meaning of Memorial Day from my father, Hugh [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)You mean the new corporate-sanitized version of Memorial Day? When it's considered rude to bring up the actual policies that CAUSE the death and despair we are remembering?
The new, weird, plastic, Third Way version of Memorial Day in which we are to applaud the empty words of politicians who VOTED for a war based on lies that slaughtered countless innocents, who VOTED AGAINST protecting children from cluster bombs, who helped ORCHESTRATE a right-wing coup in Honduras from which women and children are still fleeing?
The new corporate Memorial Day, in which being truthful about history and policy is considered unseemly, and in which we are to smile our plastic smiles and pretend that the oh-so-moving, focus group-tested words of corporate politicians are more important than their actual policies that keep the blood, and the profits, flowing.
Because the pageant is what is most important. Always.
War is Peace!