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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA reality check, in case you think you are the only one who has noticed:
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A reality check, in case you think you are the only one who has noticed: (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2017
OP
The cynical ones who just don't want their financial boats rocked are good picks, too.
marble falls
Dec 2017
#5
niyad
(113,474 posts)1. k and r
tecelote
(5,122 posts)2. And the people who just do not care to participate.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)3. K&rR nt
dalton99a
(81,539 posts)4. The crazy asshole knows exactly what he is doing.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)6. His handlers know what they are doing.
Trump does not have the ability to express any philosophy coherently. He does what he is told, appoints who he is told to appoint, and those appointees are making a shambles of every Gov. Dept.
Midnight Writer
(21,771 posts)10. Hell, yes. They are following a tested and effective script.
ancianita
(36,124 posts)11. Whose script. Names, please.
marble falls
(57,134 posts)5. The cynical ones who just don't want their financial boats rocked are good picks, too.
bucolic_frolic
(43,236 posts)7. Frightening, chilling
We have far better means of mass communication and interaction than they did in the 1930s,
but those same things also make more of us dumber and dumber.
H2O Man
(73,577 posts)8. Recommended.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)9. That's the reason Fox 'news' and hate radio exist
Hekate
(90,745 posts)12. This is as true today as it was when it was written.
Alas, for my country and its people.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)13. k&r . . . . n/t
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)14. People should be reading more HannaH Arendt, hie thee to the library!
Dalai_1
(1,301 posts)15. K&R n/t
Iggo
(47,561 posts)16. Kick. (n/t)
relayerbob
(6,545 posts)17. Somewhat disagree
It's not true or false, it's between caring and not caring (about what is happening), and also where the distinction of right vs wrong no longer exists.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)18. It's time
for another flat earth society meeting!
NoMoreRepugs
(9,446 posts)19. That could be the mission statement
for Faux News.
Nitram
(22,840 posts)20. Amen.