Americans turning on each other and making all kinds of daily threats.

The UNunited states of American.

Putin vowed to break up the US and he did a superb job of it.

Was able to trick UK into leaving the EU.
Installed his puppets across European governments.

And does it all over the globe, starting civil wars to produce immigrants
to the US and Europe and then can install his puppets who run on the immigration issue.

His puppets don't actually need to win elections, just make them popular enough
to cover his election rigging.

Putin also likes to choose puppets who are crazy, incompetent, crazy.
He does this to make countries look foolish and to degrade the quality of leadership.

To show that they think democracy doesn’t work. And now we have half the country falling for it. It makes me sick.

Because voters are ignorant, uninformed, easily manipulated.

The concept of We The People was the greatest innovation in human history.
The idea that regular people had the power, not the rich elite.

The world's autocrats and billionaires are done with democracy.
It must be destroyed. They want all the power and all the cash.

Healthcare, education, military, safety net, standard of living, rule of law, democracy.

Americans manipulated into thinking that destroying the country is the way to go.

Burn it all down is the voters deepest wish.

A sense of fear, anger, hatred must be installed and ramped up all the time.

I guess they want to keep their work and their readers bubbled, and not expose themselves (or their readers) to differing (possibly opposing!) opinions like yours.

Better for the echo-chamber that way.

I was a subscriber until they decided my employer needed to know of my comments. Did not realize when others click the link they can't see the story.

This is about people who do not want their claims to have to compete fairly in the marketplace of ideas — because their claims can’t withstand scrutiny and open debate — resorting to bullying and intimidation.

You engaged with them seriously and in good faith. Some of us would not have given them that. Would have just laughed at them and told them to ask the fairies and wood sprites they probably believe in for help when they are dying of a preventable illness.

But what they really cherish is a monopoly

Capitalism needs regulation to prevent morphing into fascism, which to me is the conjoining of big business and government.

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