Have the Democrats failed to hang onto the past KKK Robert Byrds senate seat in West Virginia?

There is a lot of hypocritical situations and people in politics! This is one example where issues are dividing us farther apart as a nation and society. Byrd has changed his life by an extreme measure.

What happened 40 or 50 years ago that is now irrelevant shouldn't have any bearing on his life or his current record of accomplishments. I see your point about certain Tea Party advocates. Many are like attack ants over the shell of a dead beetle.

There isn't much there, but they will continue to attack it until it's totally decimated. Character assassinations largely is a technique that those without real solutions to the issues will use to win elections. That's a shame in a country that has so much in terms of resources and intelligence to look for new solutions to old problems.

We should all focus on solving problems, not causing more by our prejudices and trumped up fears.

I ignore them when they whine about Byrd. Its a pathetic attempt at an attack.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.