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OldBaldy1701E

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58. "And until we can find politicians who won't sell out for a cut of those profits, we won't see change."

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 07:37 AM

Dec 11

Yeah, we have some serious deprogramming to do before we can hope to find more than one or two non greed-driven American. I am not saying that there are none. I am saying that those folks would never get the chance to be in a position like that because Big Business would never allow them to hold the position of Dog Catcher, much less get into a position where they would oppose those same greedy animals. And, we are a defacto oligarchy, so Big Business always gets their way in the end.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the people on it first. We did not get to where we are socially and politically because of greedy and soulless trees. No evil deity suddenly appeared and made us evil like him. We did this to ourselves. And, because it has not changed yet, we can see that there is a massive amount of deprogramming to do.

Either that, or we like things like they are. Which tells me more about us as a nation than any propaganda could hope to obfuscate.

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