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No wonder so many Repugs see everything upside-down.
I share your spite for Murdoch, but he's just one piece in a giant puzzle of a vast right-wing propaganda and deconstruction machine. Heritage Foundation, ALEC, Adelson and our mostly sheepish MSM are just as guilty. Murdoch just happens to own the largest, loudest right-wing bullhorn, while the others do their destruction in the shadows.
If someone 40 or 50 years ago had told me our freedom of speech enshrined in the Constitution could ultimately lead to America's downfall, I would have voted to have that person committed. These days, I'm not so sure.
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Resentment of our progressive taxation system was always at the root of GOP policy as long as I can remember, back into the early 60s.
However, I believe there's a more sinister element at play: when most people become very wealthy, after a period of time the fear of losing it sets in. But the worst effect is that these people start to believe they are entitled to political power because of their wealth, and thereafter use part of their wealth to gain that control.
And, tied to that belief is the thinking that the teaming masses of everyday folks must be controlled by whatever means necessary - including lying, deceiving, and starving us to death if necessary.
I think recorded history has shown those propositions to be correct many times over......
