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freshwest

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2. Sheshe, I fear it goes a bit deeper than hatred. This is the same strategy the Nazis used to ruin
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 11:10 PM
Nov 2013
the Wiemar Republic which had civil rights and a safety net similar to ours before Reagan in some respects.

A government of 'We The People' works for the majority and not a minority of conservative interests no matter how they fit it into ideology.

Another word for the deliberate process the GOP has employed is 'destabilization' to make people lose confidence and mistrust in their government so they no longer are willing to work for democratic goals. That energy will be absorbed into cults by demagoges.

Economic collapses have been engineered by regressive forces before to benefit the rich and powerful, and they are quite good at it. The tecnhique is very old, just the means of doing it have changed.

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