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felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
6. I think it's great that many Republicans
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:40 AM
Jul 2012

do not like the drug war either. This is not team sports, the drug war is one result of the military/prison/pharma/ industrial complex amassing way too much money and power against the common folk. They are abusing this power and I hope that by the expression of resistance by both parties, we may find some sanity.

I talk to many Republicans about this, that many issues facing this country are not about left vs. right, they are about the abuse of power by a hierarchy-which is a vertical imbalance of power. We have to shift the perspective in this country--like the concept of 'the 99%' against the 1%--most of our misery is due to consolidated power and influence by a relatively small group of people at the top.

Otherwise we end up fighting amongst ourselves--which is absolutely what the 1% wants us to do. They want us to be afraid, to hate each other, and to fight over the crumbs they leave us, with the guns they provide to us, and on the misinformation they feed us. It is what they have done overseas to countless countries and this is what they are doing to this country.

I think it would be fantastic to have both parties unified on something, it might be a spark of sanity.

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