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jwirr

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2. Many of the ones who want that today have always felt that way but for the rest this has been a
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 04:20 PM
Jan 2012

gradual change. Started in the late 70s by the "me" theology of some rw churches and preached on tv to under-educated listeners it overrode the mainstream churches who did not fight back. Then they elected an actor who was just about as uneducated as they were and from there "me" politics has been one straight road to what we have today pure hate and greed two ideas that were considered sins when I was young.

It does not help that even the educated and banksters were playing this game when they bought into Milton Freidman and his Chicago Boys disaster capital ideals. And of course the so called liberal msm did not hesitate to call everything that was anywhere near to real liberalism into question.

I do not think we were wrong and I will not give up that idea no matter what shit they throw at us.

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