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Republicans are kakistocrats and kleptocrats who want more Empire than there already is, and for them and their billionaire owners to control it all. You're looking to arsonists to put out a fire there. Democrats undoubtedly suck; but Repubs and their further-right lackeys suck worse.

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The Republicans are kakistocrats, too. We are witnessing the dangerous, especially to itself, flailing of a declining Empire. Now the imperial managers are trotting out all the old tricks that worked before, seeing them fail, then trying even harder to make them work because they don't know WTF else to do.

Imperial incompetence is also a sign of imperial decline.

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America disgusts me more and more.

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“America” is one of the most brilliant and righteous ideas ever formed by mankind.

D object of your discussed should be “Americans”

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So why didn't Ike rein in the Dulles brothers?

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He didn't have the power. He was a military man, not a politician. The Dulles brothers were well established very powerful bureaucrats who knew how to run circles around incoming presidents -- which still happens today. Kennedy was assassinated for trying to rein in Allan Dulles and the CIA.

To read the Stephen Kinzer's book The Dulles Brothers gives great insight into what America has become today.

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And all we had to do is listen to Eisenhower. As a collective, we are morally bankrupt cretins

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So true! History is a series of harbingers we refuse to pay attention to and our societies (the MSM and propagandists) suppress the truth so effectively.

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Harry S... along with Ike, Martin Luther King Jr., far to plainspoken in Blunt. No one likes to be told to their face they’re not doing it right. Well, except except if you love to learn.

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Think what a different world it would be if we hadn’t consented to Reagan stealing the election from Carter. Or better yet, Clark fire stone, Henry Ford and John D Rockefeller weren’t allowed to bribe every city Council in America to remove light rail. Joni Mitchell was right......

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