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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-25-08 11:08 AM
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27. Let's see,
Michael Moore devoted a chapter to this very subject in "Dude, Where's My Country". Jim Hightower has also explored this in "If the Gods Had Meant Us To Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates". Greg Palast has also gone down this road in "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy".

Like I said, a lot of it is in the wording. Americans do have kind, humanitarian instincts and still fundamentally believe in helping each other and promoting fairness. However as you said, they are easily persuadable, and the rabid RW media has persuaded them that anything that smacks of liberalism is evil, thus you have to approach this via the back door:shrug:
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