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Ch 21, titled, “The Great American About Face:

“There Was a Time When Kindness Was a Noble Thing; Nightmare Apparent”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(published 10/16/2022)

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CW22Q 21/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website, as wells as a free pdf file, & on Amazon in print & ebook, as of Oct 2022)

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CW22Q 21/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “You don’t know what I’m getting at. Yet this is the indicator of the gradual change in our country that would be missed by those younger than myself.” []

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CW22 21/3

[] “I only see this glaring discrepancy because of having lived many years in an America whose values were different, & who thought differently, more compassionately than today.” []

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CW22Q 21/4

[] “I know of an America where even that last big word that I used, *compassionately*, wasn’t the dirty word that it is today...or the certain game loser, deal breaker if uttered.” []

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CW22Q 21/5

[] “…what’s happened today is that it’s not even society at large that is supposed to benefit. Compassion is not a goal, or even a value, when negotiating.” []

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CW22 21/6

[] “Compassion is not a goal, or even a value, when negotiating. The scornful repetition of those words, ‘bleeding heart liberal,’ has had its intended effect.” []

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CW22Q 21/7

[] “…in those days, the easing of suffering was a value, *compassion* was a noble thing, not indicative of weakness like today.” []

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CW22Q 21/8

[] “Yet starting with Reagan & slowly since then it *has* become that.” []

[] “…why has it gotten to that again, even to where it’s back to where it was...again...at the beginning of the Great Depression: No compassion *allowed*.” []

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CW22 21/9

[] “…over the course of all these years we’ve seen the marginal tax rate for the very wealthy go from 91% in the 50s & 60s, when the American economy was booming, to where the top tax rate is down to 37% now” []

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CW22Q 21/10

[] “Not to mention that the average tax rate for the wealthy is lower than any in the country, averaging out at 8.2 percent. Even the lowest tax bracket, for those making between $0 & $9,950 is set at 10 percent.” []

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CW22Q 21/11

[]“Worse than that, the average tax payment for the wealthiest twenty-five Americans was 3.4%, as reported 13 April 2022.”[]

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CW22 21/12

[] “Did those increasing cuts in taxes for the wealthy increasingly stimulate the economy, as we were told they would? … No…. We’re a lot worse off.” []

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CW22Q 21/13

[] “…what happens when something is repeated over & over & over again... self-benefiting mean-spiritedness like this can be spoken of as being, somehow, reasonable.” []

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CW22Q 21/14

[] “…these days, if you are one of those who uses words like *compassionate*...you’re a hippie! []

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CW22 21/15

[] “And on the other side of this, the side that is presented to all, promulgated to everyone, & the only one considered ‘real,’ we’ve got these mean-spirited feelings.” []

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CW22Q 21/16

[] “[These mean-spirited folks] are at war with the idea that we have government that’s there to at all benefit, be on the side of, or even be for its citizens.” []

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CW22Q 21/17

[] “…that is based on this old-fashioned notion that it is a good thing to save people from dying or from suffering in situations where a single individual is helpless against a cultural or societal wrong.” []

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CW22 21/18

[] “Government could be seen this way because one preeminent value was that life was precious & good, that people dying was not good, that it was important to prevent that to the extent one could...”

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CW22Q 21/19

[] “…that people dying was not good, that it was important to prevent that to the extent one could]…more important than money or profits or the comfort & pleasure of people with riches.” []

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CW22Q 21/20

]“These brutish & thievish over-reaches displayed an incredible disregard for, disrespect of, indeed,an actual literal inability of the Filthy Rich—the 1%—& thr Republican puppets to see American ppl,who were the recipients of these attacks.”[

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CW22 21/21

]“Together these reveals, displayed unintentionally however blatantly & unknowingly by Republicans & the Filthy Rich...& b4 the entire world...disclosed to masses of Americans some ‘cracks,’ ‘stains,’ or textures in the ‘dome’ of unreality”[

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CW22Q 21/22

[] “…[ disclosed to the masses of Americans some ‘cracks,’ ‘stains,’ or textures in the ‘dome’ of unreality] they’d existed in, which had made them blind to Reality itself, & had kept them in a near zombie-like dream reality.” []

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CW22Q 21/23

[] “As this Awakening continued, some began remembering events, the memories of which had been ‘bleached’ out of awareness until just then, & then with remembering they realized how they’d been trained like animals…” []

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CW22 21/24

[] “…[with remembering they realized how they’d been trained like animals] their entire lives for the uses, whatever they’d be, of the Filthy Rich, & been trained then to forget that.” []

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CW22Q 21/25

[] “I discussed how this erosion of reason resulted in an erosion of action as well & why this would be desirable by the societal puppet-masters.” []

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CW22Q 21/26

[] “Next, I discussed the means of the manipulation—the media, the puppet strings employed by the masters.” []

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CW22 21/27

[] “I talked about the way our lives were focused away from human concerns & reduced to the level of a game, contrived by the elite & which was geared toward thr ends, suited to their abilities, & in which they dominated.” []

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CW22Q 21/28

[] “This game was most times camouflaged in positive, civic sounding phrases & terminology that made it seem it was an endeavor for the betterment of all, but I explained how it actually was played & what the motives & ends really were.” []

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CW22Q 21/29

[] “…even this ruse of societal welfare was ever more let go of, as the puppet-kings gained in strength & in success in converting mass minds to a belief in the dogma of the game that they controlled.” []

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CW22 21/30

[] “The Filthy Rich Controllers channeled people’s inclinations away from their own priorities & from human concerns to be in alignment with the overseer’s non-humanistic, alien ones.” []

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CW22Q 21/31

[] “Human concerns such as life, easing of suffering & the like were seen as silly & laughable.” []

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CW22Q 21/32

[] “As the super wealthy gathered power, they became more blatant & reckless in their machinations. The game was successfully installed as the focus & preeminent value of life itself;” []

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CW22 21/33

[] “but in this headiness of accomplishment, [the super wealthy] became complacent about their subterfuge. Reckless in their maneuvers & ever more careless in concealing it, they risked being exposed.” []

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CW22Q 21/34

[] “We see how this creates a condition of such extreme suffering in the populace that stimulates them into awakening from the dream. The Matrix is glimpsed.” []

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CW22Q 21/35

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 21 of my new book,

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

which is

“A Cultural & Political Psychohistory of America from the 1950s to 2022”

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CW22 21/36

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CW22Q 21/37

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CW22Q 21/38

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CW22 21/39

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CW22Q 21/40

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CW22 21/41

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