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In reply to the discussion: Boehner ready to let funding lapse for Homeland Security Agency [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)49. It's called feudalism. Where you must pay the baron to use his road and you will bow to your betters
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or else be killed by those who directly benefit from strong man rule. Like Rand Paul bragging about his private security that makes him feel safe, surrounded by Second Amendment solution riflemen who want to 'restore' the USA to its rightful rulers. Same thing as the CSA wanted, where only white men will rule.Where social mobility is a pipe dream, slavery is what some people are born to be in and they deserve it. Historically all caused by reducing government until it is so weak it cannot enforce laws as it was the only force keeping feudalism at bay.
Yes, Grover knew that cutting off funds and denying government taxes was the way and enforced the allegiance of the GOP, as the Koch brothers do now.
Thom Hartmann did a great analysis in this clip, referring to an author who states the case plainly:
This is the era we are living in, so please listen carefully, DU!
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"Stop Obama" is all they ran on. They don't have a skillset for actual governance. n/t
Beartracks
Feb 2015
#28
I wish I could say you are wrong but you are exactly right. They dont know how.
Thinkingabout
Feb 2015
#54
They want chaos, the media attempt to demonize Obama is failing, chaos is all they have left.
Fred Sanders
Feb 2015
#17
It's called feudalism. Where you must pay the baron to use his road and you will bow to your betters
freshwest
Feb 2015
#49
The second link shows their method, brainwashing the voters through media to vote their stooges in.
freshwest
Feb 2015
#52
... The beleaguered Speaker’s feeble talking point is, “The House has acted. We’ve done our job.”
struggle4progress
Feb 2015
#62