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  Today’s experts say that what we are dealing with today regarding Donald Trump and the Maga-Republicans making an unveiled attempt to end democracy as we think we know it is new.   Some used the word “unprecedented” but these proclamations from those who we are supposed to depend on to help understand what is really going on are WRONG.   The time of Donald Trump and the Maga-Republicans is neither new nor unprecedented.   It has happened before in our history but because we did not learn the lessons of the past and still to this day refuse to even honor that past, we are allowing history to repeat itself.   For the same souls that occupied the bodies of the once Dixiecrats have returned and now they inhabit the bodies of Maga-Republicans. In 1957 there was a small faction of governmental leaders lead by then Governor Strom Thurman within the Democrat Party who called themselves Dixiecrats.   These highly educated dictators were so in defense of the so...

In this era of people using religion to hide behind while they commit acts not recognized as decent and good by any Bible, I thought I could never be amazed at the lengths Satan would go but I learned today that I was wrong. In an article titled “ Jihadis take their kids to war; moms fight back” it is being reported that what “started out as a father-and-son trip to Kosovo's western mountains in July. It turned into a months-long ordeal for an 8-year-old boy who was taken to war-torn Syria by his jihadi father.”  It was further reported that “Extremists in Syria are apparently encouraging jihadis traveling to join them to bring children, intent upon proving they can establish an Islamic caliphate, compete with devout families. In addition to the fighters who sometimes bring their children, teenage girls and young women from Europe and elsewhere have been targeted for jihad and ultimately enlisted to help in babysitting, according to interviews with security officials and famil...