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Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
5. that makes sense
Sat Nov 17, 2012, 07:00 AM
Nov 2012

times get tough so people turn towards religion and patriotism while they try to preserve their own and expel all things foreign from their economies and societies. That is a huge part of what the tea party in American politics was about.

I've always said that religion and patriotism are just tools to control the masses. I fell for the feigned republican patriotism when I was younger and I joined the military and fought in a war that I never agreed with (I joined before September 11th, 2001 and I found myself in Iraq in 2004). I sure won't fall for the republicans again...

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