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Chapter 17: “A Matrix of Misinformation:

“The Lies Themselves...When Did the People Themselves Become a “Special” Interest?”

complete chapter

- from *Culture War, Class War 2020: Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

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CW22 17/1

[*Chapter 17 text begins:*] “With corporations firmly backing Republicans, the Democrats in every election that I can recall—especially in the presidential elections—always were way underfunded.”

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CW22 17/2

“*The Money Changing Everything—The Planting of Lies*

“Meanwhile the GOP is consistently overfunded because the Rich-publicans are carrying the wishes of those corporations into the board rooms of Congress along w their huge amounts of money.”

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CW22 17/3

“*Corporations Invest in America (American Government)*

“Yet these payoffs were small investments to corporations, relative to the benefits they would get in the changes in government policy which affected them.”

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CW22 17/4

“Republicans were—It was obvious...it was all on public record—Republicans were getting huge amounts of money going into their campaign coffers & were way overfunded.”

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CW22 17/5

“*Democrats Not Wanting to Be Totally Disarmed*

“So with no hope then...and this is what I saw happen...Democrats, who were still wanting to work for a better America & therefore better government, were forced into a choice of…”

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CW22 17/6

“…either continuing to rely only on contributions from the American people...as for example unions, keeping them woefully underfunded, & therefore losing...or to accept what was being offered them also by corporations.”

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CW22 17/7

“So you began to have some Democrats making compromises with their principles & accepting some corporate money.”

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CW22 17/8

“Though even then it remained true that for the most part Democrats were funded by unions & organizations dealing with issues, like education, health care, seniors, jobs, & so on that affect the average American.”

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CW22 17/9

“Now, this is where I get to those Big Lies, those concocted untruths that end up everyone just *knowing* to be true.”

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CW22 17/10

“*The Lies*

“To make this point, I need to back up to that thing related to convoluted tax codes & corporations & how the tax system in America became a tool of larceny for the Filthy Rich.”

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CW22 17/11

“The tax codes were molded to the greedy desires of various industries & corporations; this was allowed as a tradeoff for legislative & other benefits to the common good.”

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CW22 17/12

“Yet I was saying that eventually it was getting to where a huge increase in that problem could be attributed to corporations not even having to justify that the paybacks they wanted were good for America anymore.”

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CW22 17/13

“No tradeoffs to the common good even necessary. How did this happen?

“Well, we have the situation mentioned where eventually Democrats were virtually *required* to accept corporate money or else they had no chance to win elections.”

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CW22 17/14

“Naturally then, they had to produce at least a little for their benefactor corporations as well. Then they would be painted with the same brush as the corrupt Republicans.”

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CW22 17/15

“*Obvious “Truth”—The Lesser of 2 Evils Is Still Evil*

“Folks would apply an absolute standard to these considerations. They would conveniently forget thr own fallibilities when targeting Democrats, as they were instructed to by Republicans.”

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CW22 17/16

“[In asserting a lesser-of-two-evils argument,] they would pretend that folks in government are capable of a standard they would not themselves be able to meet.”

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CW22 17/17

“*Breaking news—politicians are human*

“Let me put it this way: We expect politicians to be like the people we maintain we are like, what we would like others to think we are like...but aren’t.”

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CW22 17/18

“What this ends up looking like: Republicans are excused of all wrong-doing, at the behest of the wealthy with a beam in their eye, on the basis that it is equal to the mote that is in the eye of the Democrats.”

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CW22 17/19

“Basically, while Republicans are allowed much leeway, Democrats are punished for not being like the people we are ourselves *pretending*to be. Ultimately this tarring of Democrats in the same vat as Republicans gets Republicans off the hook.”

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CW22 17/20

“*People can still be good, even if not Mother-Theresa good*

“It is crucial to keep in mind the fact that Democrats, over the 60-year period under review, were not getting near as much money from corporations as Republicans, by & large,..”

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CW22 17/21

“…& [Democrats] remained afloat mostly through contributions from unions & from organizations of masses of people pushing issues of overall social benefit.”

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CW22 17/22

“So Democrats were backed for the most part by actual people not corporations; still they had to produce something for the overlords.”

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CW22 17/23

“To misinform about this, the Republicans would encourage a narrative in the country & in the social media that goes like this: “The lesser of two evils is still evil.” Which has it that all evil things are equally bad.”

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CW22 17/24

“Say, you had to decide between one person on a hill being bombed out of existence versus one hundred people on a nearby hill getting killed.”

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CW22 17/25

“This thinking on lesser evils being evil would have it that both instances—one hundred dead versus one death—are equally evil.”

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CW22 17/26

“It is saying your decision to allow 100 to die is not 100 times more evil than one death, but equivalent. Now, there are 99 people who would vehemently disagree with that, aren’t there? If they were allowed to live, that is.”

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CW22 17/27

“Let us take a real-world example. Is Hillary Clinton’s deletion of emails—many of which were probably the spam mails & niceties between friends that fill up all our inboxes—equal to a treasonous insurrection?”

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CW22 17/28

“Some people would have it so. Hard core MAGAts would have it that [a deletion of spam emails] is somehow far worse [than a treasonous insurrection & attempted coup]; go figure.”

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CW22 17/29

“Is a risk ratio for a possible adverse reaction to vaccines of five cases in one million shots, 0.000005 percent—which would get you anaphylaxis, not death, by the way—equal to a one in one hundred chance of death ratio, 1 percent,..”

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CW22 17/30

“[Is a risk ratio for adverse reaction to vaccines of 5 cases in 1 million shots, 0.000005 percent, equal to a death ratio of 1 in 100] for*not* getting the vaccine? Again, some people would have it so. Lesser of 2 evils is still evil, right?”

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CW22 17/31

*“Don’t know much about” arithmetic…*

“So these “lesser of two evils” arguments are ones where the factor of proportion is left out. These things are not seen as amounts, which can be compared, which are relative; but as absolutes.”

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CW22 17/32

“MAGAts are gullible innocents when it comes to slogans that require a little thinking to make out their absurdity, especially if it includes any arithmetic.”

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CW22 17/33

“I swear, these folks [MAGAts], who apparently slept through third-grade numbers class, go into a brain fog & are unable to fathom the differences between amounts: Everything over a thousand is equally “a lot”;”

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CW22 17/34

“[to these MAGAts] everything under one & especially if there are zeros involved is equally “a little”; millions & billions are imagined the same way, let alone are they able to imagine the meaning of “trillions”;”

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CW22 17/35

“& forget about trying to get [MAGAts] to understand anything that involves percentages. You just get that blank look, before they change the subject or throw up one more “whatabouts” they’ve heard from Fox News.”

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CW22 17/36

“I know, the slogan—“the lesser of two evils is still evil”—sounds really cool & clever. Perhaps even profound. Still, this kind of ploy, which is one version of what is called a *false equivalency*, is bullshit.”

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CW22 17/37

“For there is nothing in life totally good & nothing totally evil. It asserts an absolutism that emanates out of the thinking of religiophiles who seek to maintain such categories of white & black, goodness & sinners, for dogmatic reasons.”

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CW22 17/38

“& [the lesser-of-two-evils-is-still-evil argument asserts an absolutism that emanates out of the thinking of religiophiles] as a way to make oneself better than others with an allowance to be judgmental...& punishing...of them.”

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CW22 17/39

“Yet, outside of dogma & with neutral analysis, we see such a thing—“the lesser of two evils is still evil”—could be said about virtually anything.”

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CW22 17/40

“Being said about everything, it would have it that nothing could ever be done, no progress could ever occur, for one could find a negative consequence, however small or relatively small, for virtually everything.”

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CW22 17/41

“The lesser-of-two-evils-is-still-evil argument is so obviously stupid, yet it is tossed around as truth, infecting the minds of erstwhile activists or progressives.”

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CW22 17/42

“Put it this way: If the lesser-of-2-evils rationale is,as ostensibly it is, something meant to make folks think,to stop & consider… Then quite frankly it only works if the person is dim-witted. For any thinking would cause one to reject it.”

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CW22 17/43

“So, no, [the lesser-of-two-evils argument] does not promote thinking; it shuts it down. It provides a convenient cover that allows people to continue in their comfortable & lazy ignorance.”

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CW22 17/44

“That’s its actual purpose, when used, actually. [The purpose of the lesser-of-two-evils argument] is to shut down any further thought on the matter.”

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CW22 17/45

“The lesser-of-two-evils argument derails any positive change, any benefit to the people—save imaginary ones somehow not in any way possible seen as negative—for it sets up a “purity” standard for all decisions that is impossible to find.”

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CW22 17/46

“[The lesser-of-two-evils argument] prevents all progress, because there is always some way in which any particular thing can be seen by somebody—even if they have to distort it, which they will—by somebody as evil or simply not good.”

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CW22 17/47

“The twisted thinking required to do that is amplified when the argument involves percentages or numbers; for the comparison of them requires that ability to do arithmetic & to understand & be able to imagine numbers.”

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CW22 17/48

“That [ability to comprehend numbers] is totally lost on those whose ideas of science are found in the Bible, who have been taught to believe the insane propositions of the “religious,”..”

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CW22 17/49

“That [numbers comprehension is absent fr those] who've been indoctrinated to unthinkingly conform to the worldviews & conclusions of patriarchal strong-man authorities; & who—Herman’s fucking Hermits again—“don’t know much about” arithmetic.”

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CW22 17/50

“These, together, allow folks to criticize everything they want, indiscriminately, which maintains the status quo, which ultimately most benefits the wealthy overseers, the ones who have it good in the current system.”

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CW22 17/51

“*Obvious “Truth” [Actual Untruth]—Both Parties Funded by Special Interests*

“Alright, so it happened that Democrats would seek to strengthen their overall hand to accomplish beneficial things for society by tossing occasional bones…”

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CW22 17/52

“…of tax concessions to their corporate backers. They would go to their GOP counterparts & would want something in the tax code, e.g. & the Republicans would say, “Well you want that? Well, I’ll give you that, you give me this.”

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CW22 17/53

“So it could not help but happen that taxes & public policy got more & more convoluted in conforming to these complications & outright contradictions. We saw this increasingly over the second half of the Twentieth Century.”

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CW22 17/54

“Nevertheless, Republicans were always seen, rightfully so, as the ones representing various corporations & what were called the *special interests*—defense, big agriculture, big oil, Chamber of Commerce, insurance companies, big pharma, etc.”

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CW22 17/55

“Then this is what also happened: This huge lie was created, becoming a big part of the Matrix, the Matrix of misinformation & confusion that was being put out to cover up truth.”

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CW22 17/56

“This lie was impossible to make out, blocked out by an omnipresent media saying all the same thing, in rather like this monotone voice almost like Pravda in the old days of the Soviet Union.”

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CW22 17/57

“I saw this happen too. You no longer had differences of opinion you just had the same thing being said.”

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CW22 17/58

“Anyway, this Big Lie, firmly woven into the fabric of the Matrix as to be both invisible & thr4 unchallengeable even by rational arguments...this lie, & I’m sure you’ve heard it is that: Well, *both* parties are funded by special interests!”

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CW22 17/59

“*Real truth: Democrats funded by a special interest—people*

“Now, of course, you know you’ve got Big Oil & Big Coal, & you’ve got the Pharmaceuticals & the Defense Industry & they’re funding the Republicans,..”

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CW22 17/60

“…& [Republicans] would come back & say, “Special interests?! Well you Democrats have them too. What about your unions? You’re being funded by *them*!”

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CW22 17/61

“Well let’s just take the unions for starters, okay? Seriously, the unions as special interests? *The unions*!?”

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CW22 17/62

“*Real truth: Republicans funded by non-people—corporations*

“Okay,let me step back. We’ve got corporations, which are a few people getting rich & it’s not even benefiting people. They’re not even incl the ppl who work at the corporations,..”

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CW22 17/63

“…because they’re union people, maybe, or else they’re non-union people but they’re certainly not making any money off of what the corporations are getting in laws & benefits from their paid-for Republican representatives.”

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CW22 17/64

“*Obvious “Truth” [Actual Untruth]—Unions Are a “Special” Interest*

So, what is a special interest now? Okay, so, is the American public a *special* interest?”

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CW22 17/65

“Wait, I thought the government was supposed to be for the people. Now if the people are workers, primarily; & at one time there was a lot of them that were union workers, okay?”

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CW22 17/66

“But even if they’re not union workers, aren’t the unions aiming for benefits for their membership that also carries over to the non-union workers?”

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CW22 17/67

“If the unions are able to get medical benefits, for example, which is one big thing that they pushed for, well then it became common for all workers to get medical benefits.”

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CW22 17/68

“*Is it a “special” interest if it benefits virtually everyone?*

“Okay...[a labor union] *that’s a special interest*? I thought special interest was something that was *against* the interests of the American people…”

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CW22 17/69

“…& it was only going to benefit a certain small segment, a certain handful of people. That’s why it’s called *special*, isn’t it? Yet there’s the Republicans saying, “Oh, they’re unions, workers benefits are for unions.””

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CW22 17/70

“& I just wonder if the unions are just a handful of people, who the hell is making all the stuff in America, who’s building the buildings, who’s...? Geez! I think you’ve got the point.”

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CW22 17/71

“For, I’m sure you’ve all heard it, & I’m sure you’ve all accepted it that “unions are special interests.” But I just don’t get it how...well maybe I didn’t have a high paying job, or anything like that. But before retirement, I worked...”

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CW22 17/72

“…doesn’t everybody?...I’m a working person & unions weren’t against*me*. I just wished there were more unions, so whenever I would have a job or something like that I could have had one to represent me against the powerful corporate owners.”

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CW22 17/73

“*Put out to cover up & confuse*

“So here, quite clearly, we have one of those obvious “truths” put out to cover up & confuse clear thinking: “Unions are a special interest.””

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CW22 17/74

“*Obvious “Truth” [Actual Untruth]—Education Is a “Special” Interest*

“What else is a “special interest” for Democrats? Oh, it’s the teacher’s union or stuff like that. Or, education.”

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CW22 17/75

“Oh, great! So, what is that again? So education is for who now? Okay, now that’s a special interest. Mmmm hm. Education’s a special interest? Does that mean that there are like only a few people that have kids that need education?”

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CW22 17/76

“*Education is a “special” interest...it is only for those who own brains*

I’m starting to get sick here. I don’t quite get it. I mean I’ m getting confused, you know what I mean.”

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CW22 17/77

“This is what I’m talking about, this is that irrationality: Special interest, education? Aw, c’mon, c’mon, I want to say.

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“*An America without people is an America that doesn’t need education*”

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CW22 17/78

“I mean, c’mon, aw, c’mon, somebody, somebody point out that education is not a special interest. It’s... Jesus! We won’t *have* an America in the future unless we have kids!”

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CW22 17/79

“*Don’t need education... it doesn’t matter if stupid people make our corporate & governmental decisions. *sarcasm**”

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CW22 17/80

“Not to mention how can it be a special interest if we were to give more money to education, we would have better educated people growing up...”

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CW22 17/81

“…these people would even benefit the corporations by being better corporate employees. They would, in fact, benefit all of society by making better decisions.”

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CW22 17/82

“I kind of think we have an idea of what a big difference intelligence makes... what a big difference it is when you have intelligent people running things versus when you don’t.”

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CW22 17/83

“*We kind of know how that works (stupid people running things)*

“For didn’t we have a kind of a little contrast there; didn’t we have plenty of experience of that in this century? I believe it had to do, firstly, with C-student Bush...”

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CW22 17/84

“…[it had to do, firstly, with C-student Bush] if you remember some things like Katrina & things like that.”

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CW22 17/85

“Or maybe what hits you is something about a huge costly war that...well, it was gotten into on false grounds, illegally, we were lied to...but the whole matter & even the conduct of it, wasn’t it all rather...stupid what happened?”

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CW22 17/86

“Then after 8 years of intelligent guidance from America’s cockpit with Obama, we got Trump. This is a guy who has been called “the dumbest student I ever had,” by one of his professors.”

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CW22 17/87

“While Trump—doing that lying thing he does—claimed to have graduated at the top of his class at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school, his former college professor, William T. Kelley, felt that he was a fool.”

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CW22 17/88

“A close friend of Kelley’s revealed in the *Daily Kos*, after Kelley’s death, “Professor Kelley told me a hundred times over three decades that ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.’””

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CW22 17/89

“So this is a man, Trump, who hides his college grades from public scrutiny, yet claims to be the smartest of his class."

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CW22 17/90

“This is a man [Trump] who pathetically bragged, as some kind of intellectual feat, about his ability to pass a simple test for dementia.”

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CW22 17/91

“& we saw the result of having this goober dimwit [Trump] at the helm: millions dead from Covid alone, the slaughter of our allies the Kurds & Afghans in the Middle East, a Russian invasion of Ukraine with many more 10s of 1000s murdered...”

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CW22 17/92

“…and a Presidential Medal of Freedom Award for, of all people, Rush Limbaugh.”

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CW22 17/93

“*Bush gets presidency—kind of like he won the lottery*

“Such things that occurred under Bush & Trump are incompetencies that never happened before. Never! Not even under Republicans.”

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CW22 17/94

“We had W. Bush taking more time off from the presidency than any president in history...it was kind of like he thought he won the lottery or something. Didn’t even bother to look like he had a job to do.”

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CW22 17/95

“Wasn’t [the W's] first press conference something like 10 mos after he was sworn in?

“Trump did far worse, of course, he even stopped having press conferences completely. He also spent much of his time, like W. Bush, golfing & vacationing.”

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CW22 17/96

“*Obama gets presidency—kind of like he got a job!*

“Now, contrast that with *Harvard Law Review* editor Obama. How many press conferences did he have after taking office? How frequently did you see him on the job?”

THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #Midterms #BlueWave

CW22 17/97

“[Obama] handled some of the biggest problems this country has ever had. People were impressed he could do it. & there was so much of it to do after Bush’s mishandling.”

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CW22 17/98

“In an almost identical way, Biden is masterfully handling the problems left over from Trump—Covid, infrastructure, the credibility & reliability of our governmental institutions, the economy.”

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CW22 17/99

“So, isn’t intelligence kind of a good thing for us all?

“Anyway. You get the point. Education a special interest? Seriously now.”

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CW22 17/100

“*Obvious “Truth”—The Sick & the Elderly Are “Special” Interests*

“How about medical care? Health & life are not for the common good. God, no, we don’t need medical care, that’s a special interest, that’s just for them ppl who get sick...”

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CW22 17/101

“…And you know, as Nixon said, “Some people are just wanting to get sick all the time.” & I’m starting to get sick here. I mean, y’know, a special interest only for people who get sick? C’mon!”

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CW22 17/102

“Okay, then health care is a special interest...it’s only for people who have bodies.

“And, it’s like, “Oh, no, no, it’s not just for those people who get sick, it’s those people who have to pay medical bills.””

THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #resist #Blue #Matrix

CW22 17/103

“Oh, I see, then that must be just for.... Who’s gotta pay medical bills, again? Well none of us have to pay medical bills, it’s all free, right? Nooo, it’s not.”

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CW22 17/104

“*The elderly are a special interest...it only benefits those who are affected by time*”

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CW22 17/105

“& is it really necessary to point out that seniors & the retired are not a special interest? I suppose if you’re thinking the current group of the elderly are the last humans ever to reach an advanced age it would limit their numbers some.”

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CW22 17/106

“So unless we all suddenly stop getting older, help to the elderly & the retired is help to us all; it is not *special*. Am I not right?”

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CW22 17/107

“*Obvious “Truth” [Actual Untruth]—Democrats & Republicans Are Equal*

"So, where do you hear anybody pointing this out?”

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CW22 17/108

“I don’t know but if you’re hearing the same media & TV coverage that I am, you’re hearing that the two major parties in America are equal. The Democrats & Republicans are equal because they’re equally funded by special interests,..”

THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur…

CW22 17/109

“…& the special interests.... What are these special interests again? Well, sometimes it’s like, “What are those special interests?” “Well, it’s the union, & the education, & it’s the medical care.” Oh, geez, just listen sometimes.”

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CW22 17/110

“What is the rationale behind this strategy of calling the government’s function of serving the people a special interest? I’ll tell you, & you’ll notice this is exactly how it has played out:”

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CW22 17/111

“If the Filthy Rich & their corporations can convince people that the government’s job of serving the people is a special interest among all the rest,..”

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CW22 17/112

“…then corporations & the Filthy Rich can advance the proposition they are due some special consideration & financial bonuses whenever the government does anything for the society it is *supposed* to serve.”

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CW22 17/113

“If you think about it, this narrative sets up [the Filthy Rich] as an insatiable entity needing to be appeased for any largesse going to ordinary folks.

“Yet where do corporations & the Filthy Rich get the right, or the gall,..”

THREAD... drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO…

CW22 17/114

“…[where do the Filthy Rich get the gall] to claim some special status equal to that of the people themselves, allowing them to increase their already heavy-with-gold coffers as an offset of something benefiting the common good.”

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CW22 17/115

“[The Filthy Rich, thru their corporations] are like the voracious monster of the forest, feared by the villagers, who sets itself up as deserving of human sacrifice, just so it doesn’t release its terrible power on the townsfolk.”

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CW22 17/116

“And that is actually what it came down to: Corporations & the Filthy Rich were able to demand compensation from the government—in all kinds of ways, both sneaky & obvious—simply for allowing the government to function…”

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CW22 17/117

“…[the Filthy Rich were able to demand compensation from the government simply for allowing the government to function] also for the benefit of the people at other times.”

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CW22 17/118

“Yet it has gotten worse. If you can believe that. It has gotten worse than simply the Filthy Rich demanding ransom for any assistance it might allow the people to grant to themselves.”

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CW22 17/119

“It used to be that the Republican narrative that was pushed was that benefits to corporations & the wealthy are appropriately balanced by attention to the people’s needs & wants.”

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CW22 17/120

“That is akin to “sacrificing of the village’s youth to the forest monster.” A tax cut here could be rationalized as justified by a social program there.”

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CW22 17/121

“There wasn’t this tradeoff ostensibly in the Congress, of course.

“It is just that this offsetting of gains could mollify the gains of the Filthy Rich (the losses of everyone else)—in the minds of Americans.”

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CW22 17/122

“It was the same old “bread & circuses” being given to the masses in exchange for thr enslavement & money. It was an appeasement of the masses to serve as a distraction fr the larceny & creeping fascism the Controllers would be perpetrating.”

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CW22 17/123

“We will soon see how even that—as the Controllers increased their power & money over this period since the Sixties & till today—was superseded by an acceptance of the notion that the wealthy could simply claim/steal tax & other benefits…”

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CW22 17/124

“[We will soon see how even that bread-&-circuses appeasement was followed by an acceptance that the wealthy could steal benefits] from the government without any requirement of allowing the government to function otherwise for the people.”

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CW22 17/125

“In this scenario [of the Filthy Rich simply stealing benefits]—exemplified perfectly by the huge tax cuts & the bailouts we saw the Filthy Rich were able to extricate from the Treasury under the American presidents of the last two decades—"

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CW22 17/126

“[In this scenario of the Filthy Rich thru Republicans simply claiming/stealing benefits & money using the government,] the monster of the forest simply ravages the village, no tradeoff necessary, no benefit allowed.”

THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #Midterms #Blue

CW22 17/127

“This [unhinged funneling of the nation’s wealth into the hands of the wealthy few, with no offsetting benefit being allotted the people] is a danger in itself, for many reasons increasingly obvious as we continue.”

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CW22 17/128

“*Obvious “Truth” [Actual Untruth]—Republicans/ Conservatives Are Fiscally Responsible*

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CW22 17/129

“As we go along, we will look more into the disaster that accrues to a society—like ours & indeed that of most of the world—that exists mostly to fund the extravagances & egos of the rich, with little or no largesse allowed its citizens.”

>… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur…

CW22 17/130

“*Benefits for Republicans are expected, for the people, are socialism*

“For now, though, I wish simply to point out that this socialism for the rich has immediate consequences.”

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CW22 17/131

“Every major tax benefit for the rich, going back to Hoover—all of them provided by Republicans—has led in a few years to a recession or depression. They take the money, then they leave the scene & leave the Democrats holding the bag:”

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CW22 17/132

“Not only do Democrats then need to fix the economy all over again, but the recession the tax cuts caused will be attributed, in the Republican narrative, to the spending the Democrats necessarily must do to right the financial ship again.”

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CW22 17/133

“Thus, the wealthy Controllers will even frame any benefit to the people as being some affront to their intentions to suck even more money from the masses to add to their obscene wealth. I feel so sorry for them, don’t you?”

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CW22 17/134

“We witnessed that obscene greediness recently—August 2022—when President Joe Biden came up with a plan to relieve $10,000 of student loan for strapped students.”

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CW22 17/135

“That’s a measly amount, compared to what students might have to owe; it’s an infinitesimal amount compared to what is given corporations & wealthy Republicans in tax breaks, bailouts, subsidies, & PPP loans.”

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CW22 17/136

“Incidentally, that last was loans out of the Paycheck Protection Program, which was set up to distribute funds to hard-strapped businesses & corporation to buffer the economy from the effects Covid was having on it.”

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CW22 17/137

“& we found out most recently that many of the conservative Republicans who attacked the student loan forgiveness plan as being “socialism”...as per their usual...were beneficiaries of the PPP program,...”

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CW22 17/138

“…and...get this...had their PPP loans, sizable loans, forgiven. These same folks are in August 2022 calling student loan forgiveness “socialism,” while they have not had to pay back their sizable government financial payments.”

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CW22 17/139

“*Recessions, affecting everyone, follow tax cuts for the wealthy*

“We have the best recent example of this pattern of a recession following tax cuts for the rich in the 2001 & 2003 tax cuts given by W. Bush to his wealthy donors & friends.”

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CW22 17/140

“That corporate socialism led to the Great Recession only four years later. The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities put it this way, “The biggest tax policy changes enacted under President George W. Bush were the 2001 & 2003 tax cuts….”

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CW22 17/141

“High-income taxpayers benefited most from these tax cuts, with the top one percent of households receiving an average tax cut of over $570,000 between 2004-2012 (increasing their after-tax income by more than 5 percent each year).”

THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur…

CW22 17/142

“”Despite promises from proponents of the tax cuts, evidence suggests that they did not improve economic growth or pay for themselves, but instead ballooned deficits & debt & contributed to a rise in income inequality.””

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CW22 17/143

“So the financial “meltdown” of 2007-2008, the Great Recession, came from the people who are supposed to know so much about economics. They claim they are fiscally responsible conservatives. That is yet another lie.”

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CW22 17/144

“As McCain said in 2008, “I don’t know too much about economics.” He don’t know too much about economics! Who does McCain think he is, the Herman’s fucking Hermits!?”

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CW22 17/145

“Anyway, McCain kind of spilled the beans there. Some of the actual truth came out: About conservatives & fiscal matters...Republicans “don’t know too much” about it. What they know a lot about, clearly, is larceny.”

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CW22 17/146

“*Bush brought us all together…. *

“Well, that’s one thing that Bush gave back to America. He united us. He united us around at least one obvious rallying standard. He made our minds finally clear that...it’s true he’s an idiot!”

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CW22 17/147

“It’s true Republicans can’t handle government! It’s true that they will claim to be fiscally responsible & yet...what happened? Well, the largest economic collapse in American history 2nd to the Depression...”

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CW22 17/148

“…and it was the largest collapse in the economy of the world. So, thank you, C-student, George W. Bush!”

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CW22 17/149

“*Obvious “Truth” [Actual Misinformation]—Corporations Fund the Elections of both Republicans & Democrats*

And by the way, I said this was the rise & *fall* of Obvious “Truths.””

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CW22 17/150

“The idea that both parties are funded by huge corporations, what they call *large donor contributors*, was blatantly revealed as the lie it is during the 2008 presidential election.”

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CW22 17/151

“Remember, in the 2008 presidential election. Contrasted with Republican McCain’s funding from those *real* special interests—those related to Big Business & Defense...”

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CW22 17/152

“…what Eisenhower termed the *military-industrial complex*—Democrat Obama ran a campaign where the donations were voluntarily capped at an unusually low level.”

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CW22 17/153

“The upper limit was set at $1,000, which meant that his backing would have to come from numerous small contributors, not special interests benefiting only a group.”

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CW22 17/154

“Amazingly, [Obama] received a record amount of money to support him. It was said he had all kinds of money more than McCain, even though McCain was backed by corporations.”

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CW22 17/155

“*Then I must be a corporation, because I gave to Obama*

“Now, how did that happen? Well, it could only have happened because the masses of Americans wanted to give, even if it was $5, $10, or whatever...whatever they had.”

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CW22 17/156

“It required that donations come from a huge number more of people than contributed to McCain. I gave. My wife gave...several times. Didn’t you give, too?”

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CW22 17/157

“For a change, in recent memory, Obama’s fund-raising & election demonstrated that strength I was talking about before—that strength that’s of so many people feeling the same way, therefore acting in solidarity with each other.”

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CW22 17/158

“Surprisingly this happened despite those folks not being in face-to-face contact w each other, in general. This was one of the interesting things about this development: that it was largely accomplished just thru the power of the Internet.”

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CW22 17/159

“*It’s the Internet Versus the Matrix*

“So the Internet kind of brought folks together in solidarity of purpose the same way maybe a rally or demonstration in the past would have brought people together.”

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CW22 17/160

“It was significant that most of this happened from the actions of people sitting alone in front of computers, not buoyed up by the effusiveness of a demonstration. It showed an unexpected power of social media.”

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CW22 17/161

“*In the past, face-to-face, like demonstrations, were where people connected with people like themselves*

“Remember, in demonstrations in the past...and I’ve been to them...you would go & you would share your feelings of outrage & hurt.”

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CW22 17/162

“You would be affirmed in the importance of your concerns & be instilled with hope of a change in them. Most of all you would have your sense of what was going on expressed out loud.”

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CW22 17/163

“Previous to that, you may have been reading the newspapers, say, & feeling, this is wrong, this is an outrage. This would have motivated you to attend a demonstration,..”

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CW22 17/164

“…& [at the protest or demonstration] you would have found other people who were feeling the same things. So you would be confirmed in your beliefs that it was wrong.”

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CW22 17/165

“*In the past, face-to-face, like demonstrations, were where people learned & grew in understanding*

“Nowadays, social media & the Internet have provided a similar thing where you can express your concern & rage…”

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CW22 17/166

“…& find others who feel the same way you do & so confirm your beliefs, & even expand on them with more information. So you can grow in your understanding of events & in your knowledge of what you can do about them.”

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CW22 17/167

“This function of developing your insight & your effectiveness was provided by the rallies & demonstrations in the pre-electronic eras.”

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CW22 17/168

“The point is that over the election of Obama people connected again; & it was people not loads of military-industrial money that got him elected.”

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CW22 17/169

“*Coming Up—Watch Black Be Made White, White Be Made Black! Oh, Those Rascally Magical Republicans!*

“Okay, that’s it for the first section of “Class War—The Matrix,” which is Chapters Fourteen through Seventeen in this book.”

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CW22 17/170

“The next section is coming up—Chapters Eighteen, Nineteen, & Twenty—in which I go more deeply into how they were able to get American people—including the media & the pundits & everybody—to accept this obvious unreality…”

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CW22 17/171

“[this obvious unreality] which is that both parties are funded by “special interests”; & you probably believe that yourself.”

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CW22 17/172

“*Oh, The Things They Do*

“But I think if you hear what I have to say, I think I’ll convince you of how amazing it was that they were able to pull that off.”

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CW22 17/173

“I think it will shock you to see how [the Filthy Rich thru their lackey media & GOP] could get so many people thinking irrationally about something that is so obviously not true. & there’ll be other things like that too.”

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CW22 17/174

“*Watch ‘em Turn Black into White!*

“There’s a pattern I’ll be talking about where...it’s like black is made white, white made black, where things are turned around.”

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CW22 17/175

“For example, Republicans might have a proposal to help with the health care problem, for as they say, & we all knew, the costs of health care were high & people, prior to Obamacare, were not getting covered.”

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CW22 17/176

“Yet Republican proposals end up accomplishing the *exact opposite* of what they say they will. & they know their proposals are fraudulently presented, even when they propose them.”

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CW22 17/177

“It is a matter of record that these sorts of swindles have been proposed & pushed by Republicans fully knowledgeable of what they were accomplishing. These things happened;”

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CW22 17/178

“we see they continue to happen. Taking health care again: Obviously in 2009, after Republican control, we were left a very, very bad health care problem.”

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CW22 17/179

“The point is right from the beginning—you can go back to Nixon on this—they knew what they were doing in creating the health-care system that collapsed. They knew how it would turn out, & there’s proof of this. We have their very words.…”

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CW22 17/180

“*A Glimpse Ahead*

“The last thing to be disclosed in this series: the Why. The actual events that led these people [the super wealthy, the Filthy Rich] to decide on this path toward us all,..”

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CW22 17/181

“…& moved them [the Filthy Rich] to increase & add & elaborate those initial moves to the levels of the most comprehensive totalitarian controls over a people ever attempted, let alone succeeding, as far as we know right now.”

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CW22 17/182

This has been the complete Chapter 17 of my book just published 10/16/2022,

titled *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 17/183

enjoy this threaded version of Ch 17: “A Matrix of Misinformation:

“The Lies Themselves...When Did the People Themselves Become a “Special” Interest?”

or click a link & enjoy the entire book--completely available now--with my compliments

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CW22 17/184

The entire book is available online at the links

& you can download a free copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* there.

Feel free to download it, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic Blue Wave in Nov., as you wish,

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CW22 17/185

This is the completed, extensively illustrated document for *Culture War, Class War 2022*

drive.google.com/file/d/1CBiCav…

It's a pdf file & looks exactly as the book looks.

Download as many copies as you wish; use it to help a Blue Wave on Nov 8th

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CW22 17/186

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

was written as a primer on history & current events, as a lead up to the existentially important Midterm elections of Nov 2022.

Click link

drive.google.com/file/d/1CBiCav…

#BlueTsunami #Blue #BlueWave #BlueIn22 #FvckPutin

CW22 17/187

The book was written as a primer on history & current events, leading to the crucial Midterm elections Nov 2022

said about *Culture War, Class War 2022":

"Well worth reading...Describes where we are & how we got here with great accuracy."

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CW22 17/188

If, instead of the free copies, you wish to purchase the book—ebook or paperback—these are links to use:

Paperback: amazon.com/dp/B0BJ4YVDQC/…

Ebook: amazon.com/Culture-War-Cl…

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Feel free to share & pass this book around as you wish

in preparation for the existentially important Midterm elections.

Our very lives, not to mention our freedom & democracy, are on the line like no other time

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Democrats need to WIN BIG in November

or it is all over for democracy in America & the world

& for the life on this planet.

You can use your copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* to get word out to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

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I guarantee you. If Democrats don't win MASSIVELY the Ukraine war will not be limited there, for we will be fighting Putin here, in a civil war, when the party working for him, Republicans, get power.

You choose. I suggest, get active.

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& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

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or dm me.

The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media.

&, above all, VOTE DEMOCRATIC

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