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Kid Berwyn

(24,569 posts)
2. Which goes along with Grover Norquist's dream to drown gov in a bathtub.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:58 PM
Jan 2025

We the People are not amused.

And Grover's insurrectionist convict kid just got pardoned by orange shitstain.

Again, We the People are not amused.

Walleye

(45,003 posts)
3. The anti-government types don't understand we live in a democracy, and we are all part of the government
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:59 PM
Jan 2025

Kid Berwyn

(24,569 posts)
5. Wish the Democratic Party did a better job explaining that nationally.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:07 PM
Jan 2025

"We the People" are the government, not "Me the Conman" or "Corporations are people, too, my friends."

Democracy is the only form of government where every single person has a stake in its success.

Norquist and MAGA GQP want to take out "We the People" so they can steal more, among other treasons.

Ursus Rex

(487 posts)
8. There's a historical resentment of "The Government" in US history
Thu Jan 30, 2025, 10:30 AM
Jan 2025

but the last 45 years - since Reagan, as with many problems - has seen a concerted, sustained propaganda campaign that is anti-Federal and makes out the government to be the problem. It's almost become conventional wisdom that The Government is not made up of people, at least not like you and me, and is nothing but a vast army of overzealous, over-regulating, money-sucking parasites.

Kid Berwyn

(24,569 posts)
9. Well said! People need to know it's not an army...
Thu Jan 30, 2025, 10:52 AM
Jan 2025

...made up of "overzealous, over-regulating, money-sucking parasites."

It's just a few NAZI plutocrats like Musk, Thiel, Koch and Crow with their megaphone, Corporate McPravda, hiding the fact they are the ones cleaning up amidst all the arson.



That was in 2021. My, where does the time go? And the money.

ProfessorPlum

(11,461 posts)
4. I mean, fuck George Conway. _I_ said it would be a big mess.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:04 PM
Jan 2025

We don't need Nostradumbass George Conway, whose personal judgment includes marrying Kellyanne Conway, to predict the incredibly obvious for us.

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