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maxrandb

(16,012 posts) Mon Dec 23, 2024, 11:07 AM Monday

Perhaps the greatest scam in American history [View all]

Has been convincing Americans making $50K - $55K a year with shitty healthcare and retirement benefits, that their "true enemy" is NOT the billionaires and millionaires that own and control everything, but it is their fellow Americans making $52K - $57K a year with somewhat decent healthcare and retirement benefits.

If you understand that, you understand how Retrumplicans win elections.

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Perhaps the greatest scam in American history [View all] maxrandb Monday OP

An old meme ....Fox News, rich people paying rich people to tell middle class people to blame poor people. nt Hotler Monday #1

Reagan did that. yardwork Monday #2

I think the catch words were ReRe Monday #14

Yep. yardwork Monday #15

"Government is the problem" - Reagan NameAlreadyTaken Monday #3

And the curious thing is Mr.Bill Monday #5

Exactly NameAlreadyTaken Monday #10

From another DU-er--excerpt from Big Short movie which is so depressingly true crimycarny Monday #4

It started with Rush Limbaugh. Initech Monday #6

I've heard a rumor that his gravesite spapeggy Monday #20

The USA has a long and full history of false advertising. Ping Tung Monday #7

Divide and conquer! snot Monday #8

When my mother would break up a fight between me and my brothers, she'd say Raven Monday #9

excellent Skittles Monday #19

Look out mate, that foreigner wants a bite of your cookie IronLionZion Monday #11

That illustration tells it like it is. oasis Monday #16

I experience it firsthand during every American recession IronLionZion Monday #17

On was just now my way to a local car wash oasis Monday #18

You are right mgardener Monday #12

Its not only the trump republicans, this has been going on for a long time, Reagan was the catapult of this Escurumbele Monday #13