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MisterP

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7. the klaxon of America's fall into GOP dictatorship sounds every other year now

Reply to villager (Reply #4)

Mon May 2, 2016, 06:30 PM

May 2016

he's literally beating a whole party into his own image Mussolini-style--but that's been done before 1992-4 and that time it was to send jobs OUT of the country

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-trump-big-government-20160301-story.html
this shows just where Trumpism is dangerous for the existing system, because both have embraced Reaganomics and thought there'd never be a countermove against them--or at least that they'd be out of office once the bubble popped; but now both parties are exposed as backscratching, champagne-popping, corporatists who've tricked Hardworking AmericansTM for 30 years, throwing in some mouthed prayer or pinkwashing depending on the party

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