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Kablooie

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14. It's because the right wing agenda can't be supported with facts so they have to lie.

Reply to RecoveringJournalist (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 10:48 PM

Dec 2015

The only way they can convince people to follow is to lie about reality.

To support intellectualism is to give people the tools to see through the propaganda,
therefore they have to continually lie about known truths and keep people ignorant in order to retain their huge following.

If everyone understood the reality of economic and science theory the Republican corporate agenda would collapse.

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