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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey say you get the leaders you deserve... we are so screwed

Where the fuck is the competence and the gravitas? When was the critical point of pivot away from normal. I know that the great recession and the austerity era made people vote in strange patterns, but it goes back much further than that. I think 40 years ago Reagan and Thatcher led to where we are now... up shit creek without a paddle.

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They say you get the leaders you deserve... we are so screwed (Original Post)
Soph0571
Mar 2020
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Walleye
(44,058 posts)1. Screwed, blued, and tattooed
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)2. It is what happens
When you put Fascists in positions of leadership. Trump and the rest of the Republican party are owned, lock, stock and barrel by big business and it may be too late to break their hold on us.
NRaleighLiberal
(61,698 posts)3. apathy, propaganda, loss of critical thinking skills
right wing hate radii
faux news
twitter and facebook
the teevee
