Thread by @RCdeWinter

This is one of my tweets from 2013. With a little updating it would be just as relevant today.
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If we'd learned from history we might not be in the mess we're in. But how could we have?

Those in power have suppressed as much of truth of our recent history as they could. Educate yourself! Read the history of America from the late 19th century to the present. Find uncensored texts.

Learn how the robber barons in complicity with legislators set up the Federal Reserve and fixed our economic policies to favor the rich. Open your mind and prepare for the coming battle.

Know what we're up against or we will be crushed into a third-world nation ruled by corporatist pawns who have been indoctrinated by the elite to use theocracy, misogyny, racism, militarism, faux patriotism, homophobia and bigotry to keep us fearful, ignorant and quiet.

Remember the brutality and lies about the Vietnam War and how often we've shamefully ignored the needs of those who suffered from it ever since. Remember the false flag Iraq war. Remember the unnecessity of getting involved in Afghanistan.

Think you're really free? Read the Patriot Act, the NDAA, the Monsanto Protection Act. Educate yourself about the proposed CISPA and other repressive legislation.

Ask yourself why homeless people who steal bits of food to survive and ordinary people who smoke pot get tossed in jail for years while thieving CEOs and Wall Street tycoons get away with financial genocide.

Question your representatives about abandoning those who need the most help while helping themselves to federal subsidies. And then tell me how free we really are. This is not #NotMyAmerica - and it shouldn't be yours, either.