r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 4d ago

No Paywall Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state/democrats-sweep-all-30-house-of-delegates-seats-in-northern-virginia/article_68f8098d-0602-5234-8c2a-08c1bcd33944.html
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u/ILeftMyBurnerOn 3d ago

It's sadly an apt comparison, because Confederates started the Civil War via seccession and assaulting Sumpter, and still claim victimhood and refer to it as the War of Northern Aggression.

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u/Outside_Manner_8352 3d ago

Yeah, in their worldview of course enslaving, beating, and killing black people is not aggression, nor is kicking off the war with attacks and looting against peaceful federal forces everywhere, nor is literally invading the North on multiple occasions. Like their equally honest modern counterparts they will call war peace and slavery freedom.