STOP with the Homeland crap. We are the UNITED STATES !

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32. That term is not part of American political terminology prior to Bush

You won't find it in any presidential speech before Heckavajob Bushie. Not Reagan, not Kennedy, not FDR, not TR, not Lincoln, not Washington.

It is a right-wing, white supremacist term inserted into our national language during a time of high anxiety and feeling of threat, just as in the 1950s, inserting "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance and making "In God We Trust" the official motto, elevating it to the far more historically-grounded (and secular) "E Pluribus Unum" as a talisman to ward off the forced-atheism Soviets.

I really can't stand it when our leaders adopt the terminology of the Right. They think they're being reasonable, but have blinded themselves to how it demoralizes people and contributes to support spalling off on our left flank.