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[intheflow]

172. I preached about rising fascism 20 years ago.

Posted it on DU and had several members berate me for being alarmist. Just because they’re leaders doesn’t mean they have a firm grasp of everything that’s happening. In fact, there’s even a term for political myopia: “inside the beltway mindset.” Basically, they get so wrapped up in DC political culture that people outside that closed system are rubes who couldn’t possibly understand the complexities they deal with so they don’t really need to listen to us. Consider: believing Cheney’s lies about Iraq being the cause of 9-11, and all Dems who voted for that illegal war. I mean, FFS, I lived in Colorado and got all my news from DU and I knew there were no WMDs in Iraq, why the fuck didn’t Hillary or John Kerry know that? Because of the hubris that they were inside the beltway and knew better than us rubes.