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In reply to the discussion: Why American and Britain are Self-Destructing [View all]Doremus
(7,261 posts)41. It's self-preservation to take our well being into our own hands.
If we haven't learned by now that our elected representatives do not have our best interests at heart, shame on us.
If we have learned it but still stand by while they rape and pillage everything in sight, shame on us.
What are you saying? That we did our duty by going to the voting booth and now we wash our hands of any responsibility for the fallout? Well, okay, but we're still idiots for letting them get away with it.
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I believe the death of the unions was a major factor in both the U.S. and Britain.
olegramps
Dec 2019
#71
WHat can one say? It is demoralizing as hell to live in a short-sighted and very selfish governed
hlthe2b
Dec 2019
#3
What might be going on is a collapse of monarchism and democracy through corporatocracy's insurgency
ancianita
Dec 2019
#5
Believe that if you want to, but honesty requires a much bigger perspective than this study. And the
ancianita
Dec 2019
#26
Nobody's standing by unless they are DISabled from using reasonable means to rid
ancianita
Dec 2019
#35
It takes time to learn when they're LYING. I said what I said, not what you said I said.
ancianita
Dec 2019
#42
Shame does not build a self to preserve. Shame does not build capacity; it incapacitates.
ancianita
Dec 2019
#43
Not in the legal, public, contractual up front sense of "purchase." Trump hid illegal money
ancianita
Dec 2019
#28
It's interesting that you say "a few filthy rich." We know their names, & relative to billions
ancianita
Dec 2019
#76
and the only reason it works is liberals ignore 1500 coordinated radio stations
certainot
Dec 2019
#32
I agree but WHO has funded the placement of those propaganda broadcasts on 1500 radio stations?
hedda_foil
Dec 2019
#44
i think a lot of the stations are just loudly dominant in their areas, or the only AM
certainot
Dec 2019
#48
sex on the wrong brain explains greed is exacerbated by sending impatient satisfaction-
certainot
Dec 2019
#30
brexit champion nigel farage is a radio talk show host. trump is a dittohead. and putin uses
certainot
Dec 2019
#27
thanks. the kremlin recognized the problem before the dem party and has been using those stations
certainot
Dec 2019
#81
Thank you for initiating one of the best discussions I've seen on DU for some time.
scarletwoman
Dec 2019
#40