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In reply to the discussion: Stein, Sarandon, Cornel West and their ilk own this. [View all]delisen
(7,234 posts)and that governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, should never have won two terms, much less survive a recall, get re-elected, and now be running for his third term. But he did, didn't he?
It's Gore's fault. it's Kerry's fault, it's Clinton's fault----framing it that way means no one else ever has to change. In fact we can ignore facts, shout slogans about the evil bankers, and the evil corporations, and scream jobs! jobs! jobs! and never educate ourselves to geopolitical realities; we can pretend that politics only matters in the 4 year presidential glamour cycle.
We can sit on the collective American couch, spilling all our information out for free to feed the international disinformation vultures and let them digest it and regurgitate it against us, and then pretend it doesn't matter because we are too smart to be duped.
It is not just themes-rabid of Trump voter who revel in ignorance--it is also large numbers of self-styes progressives.