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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3184269" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>What upsets me is the purity tests being ascribed to literally everything.  So what if he was a racist?  The verses we use for the Anthem capture a moment that's symbolic of the fight endured to create a country that was very different from the tyranny people came from.  Or would you prefer a country where people can't speak out against their government?  For all of it's faults the U.S. started a movement that has made Europe a very different place than it was and has greatly influenced so many other movements worldwide.  Do you really want a massive centralized gov't running every aspect of our lives?  Because it seems the Left in the U.S. wants that, and is actively trying to remove any reminders of what we were and what we came out of.</p></blockquote><p></p>