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caroldansen

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5. In other words they are trying to kill off the poor and middle class. I understand that. They cant

Reply to Hestia (Original post)

Sat Mar 11, 2017, 03:59 PM

Mar 2017

do that because then they would be completely on their own and totally alone. That's what happened before the French revolution. People were willing to fight and
Die if necessary to stop the evil and pain and the suffering the rich aristocrats were doing to them and not helping them. The poor and middle class won that war, but blood
Was shed.

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Right-Wing Billionaires Have a Project Going to Rewrite Our Constitution, & They Are Shockingly Clos [View all] Hestia Mar 2017 OP

Do you have a legitimate source for this? Foamfollower Mar 2017 #1

thank you. nt Skidmore Mar 2017 #2

This is a few years old, but it's from the Washington Post. Crunchy Frog Mar 2017 #6

THat is a great article. It would be worth a new post now even though it's old, with a note about Amaryllis Mar 2017 #20

28 states have signed on. 6 more needed to pass the 2/3 threshold to call a Con Con progree Mar 2017 #22

Watch Thom Hartmann on DU's Video & Multimedia and decide for yourself elleng Mar 2017 #7

Nobody affiliated with RT can be trusted. Foamfollower Mar 2017 #8

Don't trust your own judgment, elleng Mar 2017 #9

No, won't waste my time on an RT mouth of Putin. Foamfollower Mar 2017 #10

Remaining ignorant is your choice. elleng Mar 2017 #15

And listening to a Putin mouthpiece is yours. Foamfollower Mar 2017 #23

I KNOW a putin mouthpiece when I hear one, elleng Mar 2017 #25

One CANNOT be affiliated with RT and NOT be a Putin mouthpiece. Foamfollower Mar 2017 #26

Agree about Hartmann. But! Try Jane Mayer's Hortensis Mar 2017 #13

Bullshit. Thom Hartmann is trustworthy. SalviaBlue Mar 2017 #19

thank you for posting this jodymarie aimee Mar 2017 #3

He is brilliant and a stickler for fact checking and has fought for election integrity for years. . Amaryllis Mar 2017 #18

Citizens for Self-Governance is very real pat_k Mar 2017 #4

In other words they are trying to kill off the poor and middle class. I understand that. They cant caroldansen Mar 2017 #5

I think they wouldn't do this. This would be enough to cause a war or two. Initech Mar 2017 #17

Reminds me of PNAC back in the day; that went belly-up babylonsister Mar 2017 #11

I'm thinking that ALEC has been working in the vineyards of this effort for years. . .n/t annabanana Mar 2017 #12

This is why I'm 150% against the idea of a constitutional convention. Initech Mar 2017 #14

Thom Hartmann aside ... LenaBaby61 Mar 2017 #16

Then I would have to risk my life for the Revolution. WinkyDink Mar 2017 #21

Oh yeah? Well left-wing "thousandaires" have a project going ... dawg Mar 2017 #24