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jtuck004

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9. I prefer taking responsibility, not blaming others in an excuse-laden pity party.
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 05:02 PM
Nov 2015

There are only a few thousand of the really dangerous ass clowns, vs. 300 million who would be on our side. They need to be organized - yet many seem to think they are gonna shortcut that and just make people - the ones who they say control their lives - do what they want.



Yeah, right. They've had since 1920 to perfect their terror, and I see local elections today with tea party candidates running fucking unopposed. The reality is that most of the 99% really don't have a clue that they are in a battle.

And beyond that, even if they won, no one has trained them to do anything but live in servitude since they started public school. Go ahead an win - I will vote with you all day long - but don't fool yourself that anyone knows how to do anything different than they are doing today.

Most likely none of it is going to change with this election either. It needs something much bigger than either of these two sorry parties - but perhaps President Sanders will evolve into that. No one else that is on the platform right now will, but there is always the possibility of a real leader breaking out.

But like Ms. Tubman said, you can't rescue people who don't know they are slaves.

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