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In reply to the discussion: The real truth is that people across the planet are fed up of [View all]ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)Like Thatcher creating the Falkland Islands crisis to crush unions.
This is why the kook-left are called kooks, and then don't get anywhere with their political aspirations. Instead of sticking to defensible arguments about why government services should be borne principally or exclusively by the mega-wealthy, they spout off laughable lies that reduce the world to cartoonish moral black and white. George Bush, the incompetent dolt, is somehow simultaneously a mastermind who "Made 9/11 Happen On Purpose".
There are poor white racists, who despite being poor, are still racist assholes. And no one, not even these evil "neo-liberal" boogiemen, made them that way. When you can take that as a matter of simple fact, then you might start being able to persuade people to adopt your other positions. But not until.
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