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Hillary Clinton

pandr32

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6. Me too!

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #2)

Thu May 19, 2016, 06:28 AM

May 2016

Pied Piper certainly applies. The effect he has on his followers is alarming. They have heard the same things repeated over and over again, yet thrill at hearing them over and over again some more. It is social contagion or mass hypnosis.
Every word is flatly two dimensional to us not under the spell--glitter with no substance, and way too often--outright lies.
He will not leave now, even though he has burned his bridges. He will blow into his magic pipe and lure his interpellated followers over a cliff along with him.

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