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Hermit-The-Prog

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6. absolutely

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 3, 2018, 05:53 PM

Feb 2018

Some people would be content in a dictatorship as long as their belly was full.

Those are easily manipulated. I assumed your OP was talking about the greedy ones helping to do the manipulating -- willing to accept any consequences of stirring up the racists, sexists, etc., so long as their portfolios improved.

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