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Cleita

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19. Or Calcutta, India fifty years ago.

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:42 PM

Mar 2012

There would be a caste society of rich brahmins at the top who own everything and everyone else would be working for peanuts and living on the streets homeless with less than needed to survive.

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The GOP vision of a “perfect” America [View all] Cyrano Mar 2012 OP

I think that applies more to the Tea Party than the GOP el_bryanto Mar 2012 #1

a couple more warrior1 Mar 2012 #2

"prison for homosexuals and atheists"?!?! Are you soft on crime? Cyrano Mar 2012 #4

Pretty well sums it up. libtodeath Mar 2012 #3

Zero protection for the environment. n/t RiffRandell Mar 2012 #5

You may have just committed the crime of "scientific thought," RiffRandell. Cyrano Mar 2012 #7

You sound suspiciously like one of them there Frenchmen. Ikonoklast Mar 2012 #12

Moi? Cyrano Mar 2012 #17

Oui, m'sieur. Ikonoklast Mar 2012 #20

Zero import tariffs. krispos42 Mar 2012 #6

You forgot that black people be restored to their true status as of property of whites. Kablooie Mar 2012 #8

I intentionally left that out. Cyrano Mar 2012 #9

And women of ANY color as property of men. calimary Mar 2012 #15

Zero funds for disaster relief. Brigid Mar 2012 #10

Oh yeah! "Personal responsibility!" calimary Mar 2012 #16

Zero political parties, save for the GOP kentauros Mar 2012 #11

Already here and in place. It's called hate radio. calimary Mar 2012 #18

Recipe for a Revolution, you haz it. Ikonoklast Mar 2012 #13

Or Somalia. calimary Mar 2012 #14

Or Calcutta, India fifty years ago. Cleita Mar 2012 #19