My Magnum Eeyore & Opus Essay 2.12

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First published on Medium.

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We find ourselves in a precarious place; why are insurrectionist lemmings lining up in front of us?

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There is nothing so ironic as a Second Amendment perpetrator traitor.

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The Constitution be damned, yelled the Trumplican constitutional originalist.

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States’ rights is so important to our nation that it trumps our Constitution.

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I know that we are a Christian nation, and the church must be in the state, because of the unconstitutional religious test I just aced!

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We are not a democracy because the founders wanted us to vote their conscience.

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There is but one truth, because a conservative evangelical nationalist told me so.

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I do not have a racist bone in my body; I whitewashed each of them yesterday.

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The word democracy was never mentioned in the Constitution (sin of omission), neither was slavery (sin of commission).

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America has nothing to apologize for; no wonder Christian Americans are always the first to pick up the stones, and throw them. John 8:6&7

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Compensating blacks today for the sins of our white ancestors is unfair; leaving them in their much worse condition due to past unfairness by our white ancestors is nothing to apologize for. Personal responsibility is a one-way street.

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We are a great society, until we try to do something big. Although covering up the parts of the big thing that went bad is still something we do very well.

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Save this space. It cannot have been placed here for no good reason. I assure you.

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Undocumented people crossing our border is wrong because we have a law that made it illegal. And if it was not a crime, we would have to figure out a humane way to allow it. That would take an ingenuity Americans no longer possess. More importantly, and unfortunately, we would need to shut down our bloated, government thug bureau that violently deports immigrants by the tens of thousands each year.

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Democracy is not worthwhile. It takes too much thinking. Who else is ready to give up on it? Why not go with a benevolent dictator?! Hell, simplify it to just a dictator. First, overthrow with violence!!!… Actually no, QAnon suck my dict.

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As a narrowly righteous person, I know abortion is wrong. However, caging kids, separating families, and splitting up families by deportation is fine; our narrowly loving god wants to control the poor and women of color, not perpetually improve their overall lives.

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By Richard The Chwalek.

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