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Mariana

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16. No, they love government.

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:09 PM

Mar 2017

The military is a government program, for example, and they love that so much they want to expand it forever. They also love police and prisons, can't have enough of those. They only rail against government when the government is doing something that benefits the people on MM's list.

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According to the Right-Wing Republicans, America's Problems Are Caused By: [View all] MineralMan Mar 2017 OP

Actually, I think Government would be #1 on your list... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #1

Well, as long as they control the government, it's OK. MineralMan Mar 2017 #3

No, they love government. Mariana Mar 2017 #16

I have said forever that they really do hate us and want us gone. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #2

I'm controlling my stress over this, personally. MineralMan Mar 2017 #4

How are you controlling it? Last couple of days my neck Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #6

By posting on DU. I post and move it from my MineralMan Mar 2017 #7

You know what gets me more than anything, 3rd party voting. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #8

Yeah. That has been a problem for some time. MineralMan Mar 2017 #9

I don't like 3rd party voting either, but it is their right. Mariana Mar 2017 #17

But people who would vote for an admitted sexual assaulter and criminal Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #18

Given they've been saying that for years... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #5

You forgot teacher's unions. FSogol Mar 2017 #10

Yes, organized labor needs to be on that list. Pacifist Patriot Mar 2017 #14

They seem to hate the poor with passion Calculating Mar 2017 #11

As a Jew, I am glad to be on this list Gothmog Mar 2017 #12

Culture, culture, culture Cosmocat Mar 2017 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author Pacifist Patriot Mar 2017 #15

You forgot "activist" judges meow2u3 Mar 2017 #19