Tim, thanks for the chuckle. 

Seriously, though, even though I suffer from what GBA calls the mental disorder of liberalism, enough is enough already. The statues were a trumped-up code symbol in Charlottesville, where the real problem was not even neo-nazis and KKK exercising their right to free speech no matter how stupid, but the right-wing terrorism and a president proclaiming a false equivalency. 

Sure there is a rationale for getting rid of a lot of those that were erected with the purpose of ongoing racism. But this quickly becomes a dangerous distraction when we have real issues including gutting the EPA, institutionalizing bigotry here and now, foreign policy at the level of a third grade boy, undermining the judicial branch, undermining one-person one-vote, increasing the unequal distribution of wealth, gutting public education, and my list would continue but for the character limit.

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