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Rick in O-H-I-O

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I'm a blue dot in a red state controlled by an organized crime syndicate masquerading as a political party.

  1. Not sure that we are the stupidest. But we are the most distracted & the most easily manipulated society in the world. The endless amount of entertainment & sports combined w/ a 45-year propaganda campaign to discredit government, promote greed as good & selfishness as a virtue has brought us here.

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  2. To clarify that, you are doing well robbing this country blind. Receiving bribes from foreign countries. The morbidly rich are doing well with the tax cuts they don't need. Republican congressmen/women & senators are doing just fine with the insider stock trades. Common people are going to suffer.

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  3. These people must never have heard of batteries. How about all the money we pour into nuclear power subsides? Not to mention the Price Anderson Act that provides insurance(paid for by US tax dollars) for the nuclear power industry in case of accidents or meltdowns. Then there is the nuclear waste.

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  4. There is an entire computer program dedicated to this gerrymandering. You crack the blue districts, take the broken pieces, package them in neighboring red districts, & then you have your stacked red districts, eliminating the traditional blue districts. Producing unequal representation.

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  5. I agree. Bread and circus. As long as the people are reasonably comfortable and entertained, the regime in power can do whatever they want. The people who witnessed fascism and tyranny are gone. There is no history of hostile takeovers in our country, so the people don't understand how to respond.

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