1/ Large groups of desperate people are a national security risk, whether here or in other corners of the world. They form a petri dish out of which mass societal dysfunction is almost inevitable. This led to the emergence of Hitler in Germany after WW I among other examples.
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2/ Starting with Reaganomics in 1980 & continuing for 40 yrs, the majority of Americans were squeezed into the painful confines of a system where economic & social opportunity consistently & increasingly dried up for them so that a tiny few Americans could grow obscenely wealthy
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3/For 40 yrs the trend continued. Repubs bought totally into corporate domination of our govt & society, leaving vast millions to suffer; Dems tried to eliminate pain on the periphery but they too refused to challenge underlying corporate forces that made the suffering inevitable
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4/ By 2016 a critical mass of Americans realized the economy was rigged against them & cried out in legitimate rage. Only 2 presidential candidates named their pain, however: the authoritarian populist Donald Trump and the progressive populist Bernie Sanders.

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5/ But now of course, all that rage has turned into a mass psychosis led by a dictatorial leader the likes of which is to be expected by anyone with even a basic awareness of how groups operate. Political officialdom has been arrogantly blind to a fire set right under their noses
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6/ what is the answer now? For Biden to institute quickly & vigorously a massive infusion of economic hope & opportunity into the life of the average American. Nothing short of that will quell the fire & provide a compelling alternative to the seductive lure of the dark magician.
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7/ Another point to add: whenever such phenomena occur a tool of the authoritarian is to scapegoat a group of groups that don’t fit into what is essentially a “master race” theory: Blacks, Jews, immigrants etc.
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And Susan picked trump.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Bernie's moral compass is my guiding light
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Replying to @marwilliamson
And @DNC spared no effort to cheat @SenSanders out of the nomination. Twice. If they had united behind his policies we would be cashing our monthly stimulus checks on the way home from getting our free vaccination today instead of fending off an insane clown president.
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They knew it by 2009 when Obama/Biden continued to bailout the very people responsible for crashing the global economy, didn't prosecute a single bankster, & let the war criminals Bush/Cheney & their administrations walk.
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and the authoritarian DNC sabotaged progressive populist Bernie Sanders.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The sad realization about all this is that the fears these people have with regards to government and change, have already successfully been accomplished in every other first world country decades ago. To them it’s a huge unknown simply because they haven’t experienced it.
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