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RKP5637

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17. If Americans would wake up, this could be cleared up in several election cycles, but far too

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 03:33 PM

Jan 2018

many are willfully ignorant, and are getting what they voted for (or by not voting.)

At this stage in the game corrections can be made, but let the status quo go on several more election cycles and recovery will be difficult and possibly impossible. Some societies collapse, America is no different. Great civilizations have fallen apart over the eons.

Americans have really had it pretty good over the decades since WWII, but now the country edges or is in full Idiocracy. Many neglect woefully their civic responsibilities. And many of TPTB could give a F about the country or the people. They are in the game for themselves and their cronies. It's a damn sad state of affairs in the US.

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no i mean another great depression. barbtries Jan 2018 #39

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IMO it's going to get worse. Algorithms are squeezing out every last dollar/penny for many. It's RKP5637 Jan 2018 #19

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If Americans would wake up, this could be cleared up in several election cycles, but far too RKP5637 Jan 2018 #17

No future Johnny2X2X Jan 2018 #22

Yep, agree! Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Jan 2018 #26

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This entire bubble is going to burst with great fallout! n/t RKP5637 Jan 2018 #20

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