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We went down to Washington, D.C. for Women’s March Weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, a park ranger showing us the World War II Memorial<\/a> explained that the Mall was originally intended to be dedicated to peace. “Then the Vietnam Veterans demanded a memorial [1982] and who can say ‘no’ to a Vietnam Vet,” he opened. “After that, people said that the Korean War was literally called ‘The Forgotten War’ so they got a memorial too. Then people said ‘What about the Big One?’ so now we have this World War II memorial.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“World War II was primarily prosecuted by American women?” asked an immigrant friend and companion for this outing. “Maybe Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton were here one midnight chiseling out the stone.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Authentic picture of the crowd gathered for the Donald Trump inauguration:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from the ground:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In front of the memorial to the man great enough to free all of the slaves<\/a> in states over which he had no authority:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Would this be like saying “I am donating all of the cars in Massachusetts, except for the one that I own and am driving, to charity”?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organic gender binarism at the Flower Child restaurant<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The D.C. area is so political that the Rockville, Maryland CVS carries a replica Bernie Sanders campaign bus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to the War on the Mall theme… if we add up the reverential stories from Democrats and Republicans about our great military and the sacrifices that they’ve made for us (even those who simply worked a desk job while in uniform), the only logical conclusion is that these people are so great and so heroic that they should run everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readers: If our military took over the Mall in the past 40 years, is it likely that they will also take over the government within the next 100?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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