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snot

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8. Divide and conquer!

Mon Dec 23, 2024, 01:30 PM

Dec 23

The old, time-tested way for a handful of bullies and fraudsters to defeat much larger groups.

I'm convinced that most voters, Dem or Republican, actually agree on as many or more issues than they disagree on (ask anyone you know whether more bankers should have been prosecuted after the 2008 Crash, or how they like our health care system), but that we're allowing TPTB to keep us inflamed & hypnotized by wedge issues – thus ensuring that we fail to make any progress on the issues we actually agree on.

"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."

– Jason "Jay" Gould, per Philip Sheldon Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States Vol. 2: From the Founding of the A. F. of L. to the Emergence of American Imperialism, P. 51 (1998, 2d ed.).

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Perhaps the greatest scam in American history [View all] maxrandb Dec 23 OP

An old meme ....Fox News, rich people paying rich people to tell middle class people to blame poor people. nt Hotler Dec 23 #1

Reagan did that. yardwork Dec 23 #2

I think the catch words were ReRe Dec 23 #14

Yep. yardwork Dec 23 #15

"Government is the problem" - Reagan NameAlreadyTaken Dec 23 #3

And the curious thing is Mr.Bill Dec 23 #5

Exactly NameAlreadyTaken Dec 23 #10

From another DU-er--excerpt from Big Short movie which is so depressingly true crimycarny Dec 23 #4

It started with Rush Limbaugh. Initech Dec 23 #6

I've heard a rumor that his gravesite spapeggy Dec 23 #20

The USA has a long and full history of false advertising. Ping Tung Dec 23 #7

Divide and conquer! snot Dec 23 #8

When my mother would break up a fight between me and my brothers, she'd say Raven Dec 23 #9

excellent Skittles Dec 23 #19

Look out mate, that foreigner wants a bite of your cookie IronLionZion Dec 23 #11

That illustration tells it like it is. oasis Dec 23 #16

I experience it firsthand during every American recession IronLionZion Dec 23 #17

On was just now my way to a local car wash oasis Dec 23 #18

You are right mgardener Dec 23 #12

Its not only the trump republicans, this has been going on for a long time, Reagan was the catapult of this Escurumbele Dec 23 #13