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Beers with our Founding Fathers

becomes an issue when other efforts to overcome an obstacle are

fruitless, and it is the racist that first makes it an issue.
Bigotry will exist as long as humans do, just like violence and the

absence of any possibility of utopia. Bigotry is any defining
characteristic prejudiced for or against a person or group. This

includes race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age and other
personal and class characteristics that are of birth and not of choice.

In general, I use racism because it remains a large open wound of
our Country; however, any substitute can be placed, often to a lesser

degree. These characteristics of a lesser degree are festering, and
are detrimental to the progress our Country has made in the battle

of prejudice over the last fifty years. Fifty years ago, the current
purveyors of socialism did not support equality. Like taxes, their

position has changed and the socialists have reared the ugly head of
racism that fifty years ago they did not embrace solutions to. I

submit that there are two reasons issues of bigotry become themes
of campaigns, politics and rhetoric: 1) Continues the divisiveness

needed to feed the disparity of socioeconomic classes; and 2) Vote
pandering.

Just as unions have become internally and externally politicized,
so too has bigotry. Civil rights groups that elevated the issues of

bigotry to the public awareness have twisted their success, also
becoming politicized and polarizing by their emotional hags and part

of the Parasitic Cult. Many are as full of bigotry as those they

crushed – and now crush those that aided their successes.
Historically, both have evolved from the same core issues and using
the same principals of resolution. These would be essentially work

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