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NewHendoLib

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2. Vietnam war playa a role. Obama's election.

Reply to Trust_Reality (Original post)

Sat Jan 24, 2026, 08:07 PM

Jan 2026

Rush Limbaugh. Fairness doctrine torpedoing. The Internet. Media consolidation. Organized religion.

And as Whiskeygrinder posted - this is who we inherently are as a species, and always have been..

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My effort to cope: Figure out how we got here. [View all] Trust_Reality Jan 2026 OP

tl;dr: A country was founded on the principles of white supremacy and will do everything it can to uphold it. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2026 #1

Vietnam war playa a role. Obama's election. NewHendoLib Jan 2026 #2

Limbaugh and media, for sure. Numerous other things as well. I agree. Trust_Reality Jan 2026 #4

I always wondered what Trump meant lapfog_1 Jan 2026 #3

I'm thinking that resisting secret police (Gestapo) needs to be a lot of secret tactics. Trust_Reality Jan 2026 #5