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iemitsu

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5. I hope these people do some soul searching about their
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 05:59 PM
Nov 2012

existence in the republican bubble and what that actually has meant to our political, economic, environmental, and social circumstances today.
Not only has living in a bubble caused them to be unable to anticipate, with any sense of accuracy, the outcome of the election it has left them ill-prepared to understand other simple dynamics too, such as: how taxing the rich might effect their pocket-book or the nation's debt problem, how universal health coverage would bring down the cost of health care, how human actions might cause the earth to warm, or how reading a book might provide useful information.
They have put themselves, individually, at a great disadvantage by their willful ignorance and they have made the problems we all have to face more difficult.
They should reject Fox News and voluntarily self-deport themselves to a re-education camp somewhere in Montana.

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