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Cosmocat

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15. THIS is the key point

Tue May 5, 2015, 08:24 AM

May 2015

The focus is on the "powerful."

But, this country has VERY WILLINGLY come along for this ride.

I was a young adult in the 90s and was flummoxed at how much this country gobbled the bullshit the republican party was spewing up.

The republican party is even more brazen and does not even try to package their bullshit under some counter intuitive bullshit today. They just wake up each day screaming hateful things. And, the country is MORE prone to follow along today.

People get agitated when I say this.

It isn't the pols fault, it isn't even the monied interests fault.

It is OUR fault.

To answer your question, sadly after a quarter century of seeing it get worse, I don't think we do.

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