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kairos12

(12,882 posts) Fri Dec 4, 2020, 10:10 AM Dec 2020

The Difference

Because of COVID President Biden asks Americans to wear a mask for 100 days.

Trump says gather up with no masks.

After 9/11 Bush asks the people to go shopping.

The Reich Wing always seems to tap into that deep undercurrent of profound selfishness found in the "me first" American psyche.

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Fri Dec 4, 2020, 10:16 AM

Dec 2020

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

John Kenneth Galbraith

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