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applegrove

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7. Remember how the public treated
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:19 PM
Apr 2013

Last edited Mon Apr 8, 2013, 09:43 PM - Edit history (2)

McCarthy once they got wise? They shut him down. But that generation had already dealt with Hitler and knew the stakes. Remember Lee Atwater or Karl Rove and how they were so admired for their tricky moves by the right. Seems every generation has to learn the hard way about sociopaths. Every generation needs to learn to get wise and, as a whole, rejected the outright exploitation of of their society. Occupy was a start - the 99% - would have been a great movement. But it got shut down by the powers that be and pushed back into being a left wing movement. Obama is trying to build such a consensus now. I wish him well with getting moderates to 'get wise'.

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