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KT2000

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2. Yes!

Reply to RKP5637 (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 15, 2020, 05:42 PM

Jan 2020

That is what I am realizing too. Someone has figured out that elevating ignorance makes a whole new tent of people who will support anything. Make their ignorance something to be proud of and frankly it makes one a Real American. Democracy is vulnerable to those who wish to destroy it.

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