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Herb Klinker (FL and Umbria)'s avatar

Imagine that one-third of Americans did not know what we were fighting for in WWII.

I fear that in 2024, it’s now two-thirds of Americans who do not know what we’re fighting for.

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Will, from Cal's avatar

From Encyclopedia Brittanica: Loyalists constituted about one-third of the population of the American colonies during that conflict. They were not confined to any particular group or class, but their numbers were strongest among the following groups: officeholders and others who served the British crown, Anglican clergymen and their parishioners; Quakers, members of German religious sects, and other conscientious pacifists; and large landholders and wealthy merchant groups. The most common trait among all loyalists was an innate conservatism.

Oh, how people have changed! (Not.)

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GJ Loft ME CA FL IL NE CT MI's avatar

And it's 1,2,3 what are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn the next stop is Ukraine man... Country Joe and the Fish (with apologies).

This is why it's so easy for MAGAs to support Putin. Virtually every Republican blindly believes the MAGA lies and Convicted Felon Donald Trump knows it.

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Phil Balla's avatar

No, Herb, hasn't grown to two-thirds.

Not only still one-third, but the same one-third -- continuous intervals of cousins breeding with cousins.

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