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Chapter 18

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

by Michael Adzema

is titled

“Erosion of Reason, Self-Confidence:

“Repetition Makes It Possible to Control & Equal Time for Idiots”

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

CW22 18/1

[*Chapter 18 text begins:*] This is the second of three sections detailing the history of the Republican Party’s incredibly disciplined, relentlessly persistent, & amazingly cohesive nearly fifty-year campaign to gain advantage & wealth..."

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CW22 18/2

“…[the Republican Party’s incredibly disciplined, relentlessly persistent, & amazingly cohesive nearly 50-year campaign to gain advantage & wealth] for their benefactors, the corporations & the Filthy Rich, through totally concocted untruths.”

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CW22 18/3

“*Reprise...The Campaign*

“This section continues the exposition of this incredible phenomenon of decades-long & increasing intentional misrepresentations used by one party representing a tiny segment of the electorate to weave a fabric of…”

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CW22 18/4

“…[the exposition of this incredible phenomenon of decades-long & increasing intentional misrepresentations used by one party representing a tiny segment of the electorate to weave a fabric of falsity] over the eyes of the American public.”

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CW22 18/5

“*The Matrix*

“Similar to a kind of hypnotic trance, [this fabric of falsity] is a widely accepted but unreal & mostly opposite mental state acting like a filter to reality, blocking out the truth & substituting a fantasy..."

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CW22 18/6

“…[this fabric of falsity is a widely accepted but unreal & mostly opposite mental state acting like a filter to reality, blocking out the truth & substituting a fantasy] quilt woven of verbal constructions.”

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CW22 18/7

“*The “Obvious Truths”*

“These constructions—the “obvious truths”—are designed to please the ear, rationalize the urges, & comfort the ego, so that they will become acceptable substitutes for reason & honest perception…”

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CW22 18/8

“…[the “obvious truths” are designed to become acceptable substitutes for reason & honest perception] in a population which has also been intentionally burdened, stressed, & busied through policies intended to keep them submissive & fearful.”

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CW22 18/9

“*The Perpetrators & Their Motive of Fear*

“This coordination of policy & mantra is a strategic effort, emanating essentially from a sliver of the population, as a terrified reaction initially to a rapid series of popular developments…”

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CW22 18/10

“…& mass movements with global reach, with the apparent power & possibility of overthrowing a multigenerational structure of power, wealth, privilege, & dominance.”

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CW22 18/11

“*The Fall of “Obvious Truths”*

“The acceptability of this substitute narrative was shaken only in recent decades as it collided dramatically w the system it had spawned, exposing its roots in the minds of a class—the wealthy among us, only—”

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CW22 18/12

“[The acceptability of this substitute narrative was shaken only in recent decades as it collided dramatically with the system that it had spawned, exposing its roots in the minds of a class]—& its utter lack of foundation in reality.”

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CW22 18/13

“The story of this lengthy & comprehensive intentional deception, its dramatic collision, & the gradual awakening of the population to the real forces behind the events of thr lives & times, revealed in the shock of the disruption, continues.”

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CW22 18/14

“*The Campaign*

“In the first section of Part Four, about “Obvious Truths” & the Matrix—which is Chapters 14 through 17 —I talked about the fifty-year Republican campaign to convince the media & the American people of certain truisms…”

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CW22 18/15

“…[the Republican campaign to convince the media & the people of certain truisms] that had nothing to do with the truth, in fact were almost 100% of the time the opposite of the truth. It’s pretty amazing what they were able to do.”

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CW22 18/16

“It’s quite a story what a campaign it was, involving such things as getting people poorer & poorer, requiring them to work longer hours & so on so that they would have less time to think about things.”

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CW22 18/17

“[This 50-year Republican campaign] included other elements such as the way in which people’s minds were either stressed or made busy, & also the way they wore down the American people’s resolve to fight back against injustice.”

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CW22 18/18

“*Repetition Makes It Possible to Control*

“The Republican untruth, no matter how contradicted by observable reality, was endlessly repeated in the exact same way, by each & every Republican.”

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CW22 18/19

“Always & everywhere when reason would be called on, instead the hypnotic truism would be brought out.”

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CW22 18/20

“Pounded home in this manner, the “obvious truth” would eventually take root, sadly, without fail, for lack of anything else countering it able to be remembered.”

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CW22 18/21

“*Democratic Efforts on Deaf Ears*

“The Democrats, meanwhile, were of course on the opposite side of this seamless coordination of Republican effort.”

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CW22 18/22

“Since [Democrats’] motives were not to enslave, their instinct was to respond, for their part, with reason & explanations that step by step delineated the causes of things.”

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CW22 18/23

“However, all those words could not be remembered or take root in the minds of the befuddled masses, surrounded by such a barrage of an organized, disciplined ongoing assault of “talking points” against them.”

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CW22 18/24

“*Policy Was Added to Words to Bring into Unconscious Complicity the New Mental Territories Invaded*”

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CW22 18/25

“This mesmerism was combined with carefully crafted & timed Republican policies which succeeded beyond all expectation in eroding leisure (and importantly, pondering) time, financial power, physical strength, & sleep & pleasure time.”

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CW22 18/26

“*The Result*

“Together they created increasing worry & stress time, overwhelmed & busy moments, & mindless paperwork time. It brought in confusional realities & mental “supports.””

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CW22 18/27

“This precarious mental state left people defenseless against the major thrust of verbal repetition, comprised of simplistic, simple-minded, irrational, then increasingly irrational, but perfectly concocted verbal phrasings…”

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CW22 18/28

“…[phrasings] that elicited the precise proportions of fear, apprehension, uncertainty, feelings of paternal comfort & of being approved of, unimpeachable direction, comprehensive reinforcement & support, pleasing reward, & congratulation…”

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CW22 18/29

“…so as to manage, direct, & control the populace.

“That’s all I’m going to say now, but, if you didn’t read the previous three chapters, that will give you a little jumpstart on this.”

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CW22 18/30

“This second section of “Part Four, Class War—The Matrix,” picks up from the end of the first section, & continues now.”

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CW22 18/31

“*Erosion of Reason*

“*A Herman’s Hermit of Economics*

“So, like John McCain said, “I don’t know too much about economics.” So he kind of spilled the beans there. Some of the truth actually came out.”

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CW22 18/32

“*Smear Campaign*

“So how did that happen? This idea of a special interest, & it being equal for both?”

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CW22 18/33

“It’s basically a smear campaign against Democrats who were trying to do things for Americans. & Americans were being told something different. By who? Well on the TV, on the news media.”

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CW22 18/34

“*So who talks on the news media. Well, it’s the supposed journalists, the pundits, & so on. & they’ve been saying that for decades now, I’ve heard them...“special interests”...that the Democrats have their special interests.”

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CW22 18/35

“So therefore how does anybody know the truth? & you’ve heard it, I’m sure. They say, “Well, the Democrats & Republicans are the same; there isn’t any difference between those parties.”

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CW22 18/36

“*How is it that working to benefit people & working to benefit corporations are the same?*

.

“Now, how did that happen?”

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CW22 18/37

“How did it happen that Democrats who were trying to do things for the average American, for Americans in general, how did it become that they were the same as the Republicans,..”

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CW22 18/38

“[Republicans,] basically who were doing things for a handful of people in one corporation or a handful of people in the other corporation...or on behalf of some industry...*all* at the *expense* of the American people?"

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CW22 18/39

“…& I’ll get to that last part later.”

“*Answer: Start w an unthinking media*

“There’s something really wrong when you have a media that doesn’t have the ability to reason enough to point out the irrationality of these concocted untruths.”

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CW22 18/40

“For [these concocted untruths benefiting the Filthy Rich] are broadcast endlessly, repetitively, over & over again, by one after another of Republicans, whenever they get on TV, whenever they get on the radio.

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CW22 18/41

“Then they are repeated by thr lackeys in the media, like Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, whatever. I wonder how many of you out there are actually thinking: “Yeah, that’s what that is...yeah, unions, environment...those are special interests.”

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CW22 18/42

“*Then paint everyone with the same brush*

“I pointed out that Democrats have taken money, much smaller amounts than Republicans, from this or that corporation. Yet every time there’s a scandal, every time some of this practice leaks out,..”

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CW22 18/43

“…[every time some of this practice leaks out,] that is not what we hear. There was a clear example of this around the time of W. Bush’s mismanagement of the economy with the Abramoff scandal.”

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CW22 18/44

“Abramoff was a lobbyist funneling huge amounts of cash into Congress for favors. It was largely Republicans that were involved. Only *one* of the top eight recipients was a Democrat; the rest were Republicans.”

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CW22 18/45

“*Cover up the culpable*

“However, was that detail important to the media? No, no, they couldn’t have it sound that way, like we have one particularly despicable political party. It might upset people.”

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CW22 18/46

“So Abramoff gave to both parties we were told—technically true, but deceptive, certainly not informative.”

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CW22 18/47

“*Cobble people’s ability to discriminate, think, act.*

“& as I discuss later, without clarity on events & in particular who’s at fault, & when the waters are muddied & any talk of specific people responsible is covered in social niceties..."

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CW22 18/48

“…[when any talk of specific people responsible is covered in social niceties] & generalities with relevant details only in the fine print, well, people are hamstrung in their ability to do anything to right any wrongs.”

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CW22 18/49

“*You’d Have to Be Abraham-Lincoln Noble*

“Back to the scandal, so we have *one* Democrat out of the 8 politicians who made off with the most loot.”

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CW22 18/50

“One Democrat & seven Republicans in the top bunch. Do you see that picture? I doubt the percentage of ordinary folks cheating on taxes is that small—one out of eight.”

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CW22 18/51

“*Can we not discriminate differences? Is that too much hard work?*

“So can’t we make a comparison as to who a better party is, what group is more trustworthy based upon 12% of the most corrupt being Democrats & almost 90% being Republicans?”

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CW22 18/52

“Does that not sound like the one party made out like bandits & this other guy, a Democrat, was in the room at the time? Or do you still believe that the lesser of two evils is equally evil? Pshaw.”

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CW22 18/53

“*“Free computers time!”*

“I mean, Jesus, if I see a truck fall over in the street & it’s got all these goodies, & they come rolling out...I don’t know, maybe it’s typewriters....”

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CW22 18/54

“I told you I was old. Let me change that, maybe it’s computers or something. Everyone around me is taking some, taking free computers, & I’m thinking, “Hey, it’s free computers time!””

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CW22 18/55

“I mean, c’mon. How noble do you have to be to resist almost nine out of ten people around you? You gotta be pretty damn noble. I’m talking Abraham-Lincoln noble, right?”

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CW22 18/56

“*Dumb & Dumber*

“So anyway, can we have a little rational thought, or comparison?

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“*Treating people like they’re dumber*”

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CW22 18/57

“Or do we just, as media, cavalierly toss out clichéd thoughtless truisms as if the masses don’t matter...as if they are not real & thoughtful deciders in our collective drama but merely pawns to be placated or riff-raff to be kept down.”

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CW22 18/58

“If we find something wrong with one party, why must we paint both parties with the same brush? Isn’t that what is done?

“Is it any wonder then there is apathy?”

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CW22 18/59

“Any wonder there is confusion & self-sabotage among so many?

“Doesn’t the media have any way of discerning any differences? ... and that’s what I was setting up at the beginning, wasn’t I?”

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CW22 18/60

“*The dummies in front of us*

“There’s been an erosion of rationality,& it’s not just of regular Americans. It’s also of those Americans who are in front of us on TV,soothing us w comfortable truisms, which I think many of them half believe.”

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CW22 18/61

“And by the way who arranges for the televising of these pundits & the news shows & programming like that? Geez, isn’t it like really, really big corporations & rich people who own them...General Electric, Rupert Murdoch, & folks like that?”

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CW22 18/62

“*This new app for creating the news*

“The result is a situation where it is doubtful there is much reason involved in what is told.”

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CW22 18/63

“Hardly any common sense or thought into it, it is as if the scripts are cobbled together by computers from random clichés that are currently about and, of course, the always handy “obvious truths.””

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CW22 18/64

“In the example of bribes paid to politicians, & the Abramoff one is typical, isn’t the media’s take on it slanted? No doubt they would want to derail public anger toward the masters of the troughs at which they feed.”

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CW22 18/65

“*The Result*

“So lacking in the most minimal analysis, the insinuation that goes out is that the Democrats, well, they get a little bit of money from a corporation & much more from the American people…”

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CW22 18/66

“…but that little bit is going to corrupt [Democrats] *equally* as much as the tenfold amounts that the Republicans take in.”

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CW22 18/67

“*Democratic “bosses”*

“This also in disregard of the fact that the far bigger “bosses,” if we can call it that, of Democrats is the ordinary folks, often, as in the issue-oriented organizations as mentioned in Chs 15 thru 17—”

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CW22 18/68

“—those “special” Americans seeking to be heard through unions & groups whose concerns are education, the environment, the elderly, public health, liberty, justice,..”

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CW22 18/69

“…civil rights, consumer protection, world peace, integrity of government, media accountability, the welfare of the helpless & the poor, etc.”

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CW22 18/70

“*Democratic “special” interests*

“Here are some examples of what I mean about Democratic “special” interests. I list the special interest followed by the “small” group benefited by it:”

“workers—only people who work”

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CW22 18/71

“education—only people who think

“environment—only people who breathe, drink, eat...who don’t want to die

“elderly—only people who get older

“public health—only people who get sick

“consumer protection—only people who buy anything”

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CW22 18/72

“liberty—only people who want to decide things for themselves

“justice—only people who would not like to spend thr lives in jail for no reason & w no recourse

“free speech & free press—only ppl who have anything to say to others at any time”

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CW22 18/73

“civil rights—only people who are not part of any group whatsoever & also do not have a conscience

“world peace—only people who do not want their families, themselves, to die & who don’t have a conscience”

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CW22 18/74

“integrity of government—only people who would like things to go well & to avoid unnecessary misery

“truth in the media—only people who would like to avoid living in confusion”

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CW22 18/75

“media accountability—only people who want truth in the media, who would like to avoid living in confusion

“social security—only people who want to avoid being beaten to death by poverty”

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CW22 18/76

“welfare of the helpless—only people who know for sure they are never going to have bad luck & who don’t have a conscience

“welfare of the poor—only people who know they will never, ever lack money & who don’t have a conscience”

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CW22 18/77

[] “[Hint: Consider the ones who actually fit this last category to find the ones who would be a Republican “boss,” would never favor Democrats, & would want to confuse you on all the above.”] []

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CW22 18/78

“[This is a point that will elaborated even further as we continue.]

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“*Media mollifying us that Republicans would actually bite the hand that feeds them*”

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CW22 18/79

“On the flip side, whereas the media insinuates that Democrats are enslaved by the relatively meager amounts of corporate money directed to them,..”

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CW22 18/80

“…for the Republicans, who are receiving the tenfold amounts & are virtually exclusively funded by corporations...their entire paycheck paid by the rich folks...”

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CW22 18/81

“…the media implies these [Republican] folks, miraculously defying human nature, are actually going to go out there & day after day point out the corruption in America that is ever the product of this bloated elite, their sole benefactors.”

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CW22 18/82

“*Talking Points & Chanted Misinformation*

“C’mon, c’mon, a little bit of rationality, folks! Yet however inconsistent with common sense these insinuations & outright assertions from the media, when you have something that’s repeated…”

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CW22 18/83

“…over & over again, mantram-like...man! Especially if you’re in a confused state, or a stressed state...it’s gonna be the only thing you can think of when you’re coming up with opinions.”

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CW22 18/84

“*“To...Catapult the Propaganda”—G. W. Bush*

“These untruths are so firmly woven into the fabric of the Matrix—you’ll see there are others you’ll recognize—that when hearing them you’ll probably say,

"“Oh, yeah, that’s true.””

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CW22 18/85

“That’s what they’ve accomplished. & these nonsensicals are so perfectly knitted into the blanket of that matrix that they’re both mesmerizing & invisible, therefore unchallenged, even by the pundits.”

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CW22 18/86

“They are even, by rational argument, *unchallenge-able.*

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“*Talking Points = “Obvious Truths”*

“Now, what do I mean by that...“unchallenge-able”?”

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CW22 18/87

“Republicans at a point in my lifetime included in their coordinated daily attacks on clarity a kind of chanting in coordinated fashion.”

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CW22 18/88

“By that I mean they were repeating the same, as they call them now, *talking points*.”

““You got to keep repeating things over & over & over again for the [un’]truth to sink in”—G.W. Bush”

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CW22 18/89

“I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but remember, if you did tune in for any of the W’s debates, when he was running for president either time. He’d be asked a question.”

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CW22 18/90

“And Bush would never give an answer to the question. It would be used like a jumping off point to say what he really wanted to say. It had the intended effect of distracting the viewers from any clear thought on the issue or subject.”

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CW22 18/91

“It also freed up that time to be used, once viewers were led off track, for the seeding of those now assailable minds.”

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CW22 18/92

“Specifically, Bush was able to use the time allotted for answering questions instead to pound home the talking points Rich-publicans were trying to turn into some new (untrue) “obvious truths” (of course also to reinforce the old ones).”

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CW22 18/93

“*Palin: I’m not going to let the media set me up to answering your questions, I’m going to brainwash you instead!*

“Oh by the way, we had a really good example of that with the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008.”

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

CW22 18/94

“I don’t know how many of you saw it, but Sarah Palin, in the vice-presidential debate, she was so...incredible...in a way...in her brazenness.”

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CW22 18/95

“[Palin’s] up there alongside Biden who’s answering questions. & at her turn, she’s saying (paraphrasing) “I’m not going to let you media folk set me up here, so I’m going to talk to the people directly.””

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CW22 18/96

“And that’s how it went the whole hour, hour & a half, whatever it was. Whatever the question was, [Palin would] totally ignore it & recite a monologue instead.”

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CW22 18/97

“Well, basically [Palin’s] repeating again & again her favorite, most lucrative mantra, her most delicious untruths.”

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CW22 18/98

“*Attacks on our reason...i.e., Republicans to public—“You’re a dumb shit, I’m not going to answer your questions!”*

“But what if you really wanted to know something? [Palin] wouldn’t answer you. So it was also like a one-way conversation.”

> drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO…

CW22 18/99

“Here we have politicians, who are always telling us what the truth is, but who will not answer our questions so we can add our own thinking to the matter. We are prevented from coming to our own conclusions,so also making our own decisions.”

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CW22 18/100

“Well that’s really an attack on our reason, isn’t it? I mean we can’t ask questions, but you can just tell us what the truth is? & that’s basically what was going on.”

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CW22 18/101

“*Chanted Misinformation*

“So it is sort of like a coordinated chanting. It doesn’t matter what the issue or topic is, from the GOP side you just keep hearing the same phrases about it—phrases intended to replace reason.”

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CW22 18/102

“It doesn’t either matter which Republican is talking or what TV show they are on, they are repeating the same phrases.”

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CW22 18/103

“Like Sarah Palin, Republicans are using any question, as in a television interview, as a launch point into a rehearsed nicely knit together, truth-sounding, package of untruths.”

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CW22 18/104

“You see this one Republican saying something here, say, then there’s another Republican over there, & if you compare you notice she or he is repeating basically the same thing almost in the exact same words.”

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

CW22 18/105

“*Postmodern Mesmerism*

“And there’s a certain power in something that’s said over & over again in the exact same words. We know this. We’ve seen that power conspicuously in recent times.”

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CW22 18/106

“We can hear Hitler, in Nazi Germany, repeating the same thing over & over again...and using this rhetorical device in targeting Jews, getting people all riled up & such.”

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CW22 18/107

“On recordings from this era we hear their...“Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!” There’s a certain kind of comfort in not having to think, all you have to do is chant.”

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CW22 18/108

“& you can rely on these chants because everybody’s saying them, so they have the power, of like, wow, they must be true, because, well, *everybody*’s saying them, everybody around you. Well that’s a sad state of affairs.”

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CW22 18/109

“*This is your brain. Now, this is your brain on deception…. *

“So what does this do, this omnipresent repetition of phrases in response to questions?”

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CW22 18/110

“This chanting of untruths instead of having rational discourse, when people are hearing this year after year & even decade after decade, what does it do?”

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CW22 18/111

“Well, it adds to the smokescreen of confusion & misinformation that was effectively castrating & making Americans easily manipulated to whatever end the Republicans wanted. I mean after all you’re not getting reasoned answers,..”

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CW22 18/112

“…you’re just getting slogans, & that leaves you confused, especially if it’s combined with a lot of misinformation which challenges the facts on everything, when everything is turned backward & they’re lying about everything.”

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CW22 18/113

“I’m sure you haven’t forgotten how flagrant that intentional deception was over Bush’s 8 years. You can hardly not notice the lying on a daily basis done by Donald Trump both during & after his term. & isn’t that gonna make you confused?”

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CW22 18/114

“I remember a time when the facts were not so much in dispute so there wasn’t such a huge divide between Dems & Republicans about what the issues were. What was debated could then be what you do about those commonly acknowledged problems.”

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CW22 18/115

“*Equal Time For Idiots*

“*Denial of a Problem...Yeah, That’s Gonna Solve It*

“So this confusion over the issues has birthed an increasing polarization of opinions over the years about what the issues are.”

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CW22 18/116

“You see, we’re being told by some Republicans that there’s no global warming going on. Nooo. Wow. They are saying that issue, & for that matter virtually every environmental issue, *does not exist!*”

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CW22 18/117

“Certainly we’d all like to believe [we have no environmental problems], so even at their own peril adherents will be found for this obvious denial.”

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CW22 18/118

“*A convenient “truth”*

“And who do they have to back up that refusal to look at the problem?”

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CW22 18/119

“Well keep in mind, first, it is virtually 100% of the reputable scientists studying global warming that are in agreement on the dire reality of it, regardless of the “inconvenience” of that view. Meanwhile, to oppose that position,..”

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CW22 18/120

“…from the Right they get, say, someone who’s got a degree from a Bible institute, & he says, “Aaaah, there’s no global warming.” & his opinion is given by media as equal to that of all those scientists, in the world?”

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

CW22 18/121

“*Would you really think it’s debatable if…?*

“So this misinformation I’m talking about is put out there. & you don’t have the media telling you, “Well these are 100 scientists saying this, all writing statements, & studying these issues.””

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CW22 18/122

“”& on the other side of this issue, we have this person who’s studying theology & he got his information from the Bible. & the Bible says there’s no global warming.” Now, if they were to put it to you that way,..”

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CW22 18/123

“…[if they put it to you that way,] would you really think there was a debate? Would you really think that it’s like “Ah, maybe there is global warming, maybe there isn’t?” Naw,I don’t think you would. But that’s not the way it’s presented.”

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CW22 18/124

““Fair & Balanced”?

“At a certain point in my life I saw how the media changed its way of presenting topics. They would say they are just providing “equal time”...or they are “fair & balanced”?...but this was not about candidates at all.”

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CW22 18/125

“*Recipe for “accurate” reporting—start by mixing equal amounts of truth & lies.... (It’ll be fun seeing if the public can figure it out!)*”

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CW22 18/126

“The media claim that their position on reporting is rooted in the equal time restrictions we have for elections. This appears to be a convenient rationalization for a more insidious intent.”

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CW22 18/127

“What they began doing is, okay, let’s say that the Democrats basically thought the sky looked blue. But there were some Republicans that were in the camp of the yellow sky movement, the pink sky movement, whatever.”

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CW22 18/128

“& what reason do those Republicans give for saying that? Well maybe it’s because the Bible says it or something.”

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CW22 18/129

“An aside: that might be the reason they’d *give*, but typically their real reason would be that an industry that is supporting them is spewing something into the atmosphere making the sky more & more yellow or pink.”

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CW22 18/130

“*Giving stupidity a chance...the only thing about which we’re compassionate these days*

“Now, what do the journalists do here? Well, they figure there’s two opinions on this thing. Honest to God, that’s what happened.”

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CW22 18/131

“And this method of reporting was actually debated when it started to happen.”

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CW22 18/132

“There were more seasoned journalists who were pointing out, “Hey, this is not giving equal time! We don’t give equal time to an idiotic argument just because it challenges, just because it is the *opposite* of the truth.”

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

CW22 18/133

“*Erosion of Action*

“But if they do follow this Recipe for the Advancement of Idiot Persons (RAIP), it’s because of what? It happens for the reason that you have journalists thinking that’s what they’re supposed to do,..”

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CW22 18/134

“…or maybe they are being told to do that, or maybe they’re being paid to do that, or maybe they’re getting benefits to do that, or maybe they’re being liked if they do that.…”

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CW22 18/135

“…[maybe they’re being liked if they do that] By you know who? By people up above them. & people above them happen to want to be liked by people above them.”

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CW22 18/136

“& people above them want to be liked by ppl above them. & ppl at the top are, y’know, the Filthy Rich. So...confusion.

“So what happens? When you’ve got this kind of smoke screen & this misinformation, it’s debilitating. I mean I felt it.”

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CW22 18/137

“*Doubting the Obvious, You’re Paralyzed*

“And what does it do? It makes you doubt the truth about obvious things. & if you doubt the truth about obvious things, then are *you* gonna take *any* action?”

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CW22 18/138

“[if you doubt the truth about obvious things, are *you* gonna take *any* action?] No! You’re powerless, you’re gonna stand still & you’re gonna go, “What am I supposed to do?” It’s kind of like a castration.”

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

CW22 18/139

“*Surrounded by Untruth, You’re Easily Swayed*

“*Powerless against the tides*

“Also, you’re easily manipulated. You’re standing there.”

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CW22 18/140

“Now if you’re just standing there not knowing what to do, & somebody starts pushing you in a particular direction, you’ve got no reason not to go in that direction.”

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CW22 18/141

“Basically, that’s putting it in physical terms, but if you don’t have any ideas about what the truth is, you can be told anything. Well, that’s been pretty dangerous in the past.”

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CW22 18/142

“We’ve had many, many people killed...whether it’s in Nazi Germany or Cambodia or whatever. They were easily manipulated, & they were not fighting back. & they were confused about the truth. That’s what Hitler did.”

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CW22 18/143

“*Why wouldn’t you want a Brooklyn Bridge?*

“So that you’re easily manipulated to whatever end the Republicans want. And, we’ll get more into what they want, if you haven’t already figured it out.”

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CW22 18/144

“You’re also easily persuaded into firmly believing any untruth the Republicans would contrive.”

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CW22 18/145

“When at any turn they will see an advantage or benefit worth pursuing that requires a change of public opinion, then Americans would be more easily convinced.”

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CW22 18/146

“*Those Magical Republicans Turning Darkness into Light*

“I’ve even got an example of this from Nixon...I said it’s been going on for fifty years.”

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CW22 18/147

“Nixon was horrid even compared to the Republicans at the time. It’s only when he’s compared to Bush & the even more larcenous Republicans currently that he is seen to have any positive qualities.”

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CW22 18/148

“The example I wish to give, however, pertains to the establishment of *HMOs*—Health Maintenance Organizations—as a solution to the health care problem.”

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CW22 18/149

“[Nixon] is the one who brought the profit motive into health care, jumping onto the HMO bandwagon after learning, through Ehrlichman, from Kaiser Permanente’s CEO, Edgar Kaiser, that “All the incentives are toward less medical care,..”

->... drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO…

CW22 18/150

“…because...the less care [we] give them, the more money [we] make...and the incentives run the right way.” Explained this way Nixon was sold on the idea; we hear him saying on the recording tape, “Not bad” & “Well, that appeals to me.””

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

CW22 18/151

“*Nice trick, Dick!*

“So, is that the way Nixon presented it to the American public—“I’ve got this great way that will insure you will suffer more when you’re sick so that my filthy rich friends can wallow deeper in dough”? Hardly.”

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CW22 18/152

“A few days later Nixon rolled out his health care “solution.” In his speech he stressed how this managed care would expand medical care & coverage & be a tremendous boon to the overall health & longevity of Americans.”

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CW22 18/153

“*Giving a helping hand...to your assailants*

“And Nixon’s minions in his Republican party & the media took it from there: They turned his deception into talking points & ultimately into “obvious truths.””

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CW22 18/154

“The American public believed this truism that managed care would lower overall costs. They missed the part that they would not benefit from lowered costs, that lowered costs meant profits that would go into unseen hands,..”

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CW22 18/155

“…[profits would go into unseen hands,] who would then go even further in denying medical care & increasing overall suffering & tragedy so that they could gather even more booty.”

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CW22 18/156

“From today’s perspective of accelerating medical costs & the recent widespread denial of coverage & benefits as to require massive corrective legislation in the Affordable Care Act, brought by Democrats under Obama,..”

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CW22 18/157

“…we can see just how well Nixon’s plan to lower the cost of health care & expand coverage worked out for us.”

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CW22 18/158

“So we see how one Republican molded the American mind to make it complicit in its own abuse, to cause average folks to participate in the very assaults on them.”

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CW22 18/159

“I will return to this example of Nixon & what actually happened with him later on, because there’s more to be said about it.”

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CW22 18/160

“*Mind-Gaming*

“I just want to finish the thoughts about how this process works, this confusion, making people more manipulated, keeping them stressed & so on so that they will be more receptive to their own abuse.”

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CW22 18/161

“*Repetition makes it possible to control*

“As I was pointing out, when the Republicans need a change of public opinion or want people to believe a particular thing,the Big Lie is employed; in its repetition it makes it possible to control.”

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CW22 18/162

“Anyone remember the wmd’s in Iraq? The supposed weapons of mass destruction? Okay. So the persistence in selling an invasion into Iraq was so effective...”

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CW22 18/163

“…that persistence of repeating the same thing by all the Republicans was an unqualified success due to its masterful coordination. Republicans are known for this cohesion of action.”

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CW22 18/164

“*Having the sole aim of making money keeps a party focused*

“By contrast, the joke that goes around is the statement by an opponent, “I don’t belong to any organized party, I belong to the Democratic Party.””

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CW22 18/165

“There is this feeling among those up against Republicans because of the radical individualism, the radical differences of opinion that Democrats have.”

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CW22 18/166

“Whereas Republicans can keep it simple & be that much more persuasive. There can be no disagreement or confusion about an aim so singular, so clear—to benefit themselves & the people that are paying to get them elected.”

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CW22 18/167

“[There can be no disagreement or confusion about an aim so singular, so clear—to benefit themselves & the people paying to get them elected.] That keeps [Republicans] pretty consistent & gives them a lot of solidarity.”

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CW22 18/168

“*Getting a kick out of those rascally Republicans*

“Good examples of this acting in lockstep abound in the last couple decades. We currently see Trump’s hold on the Republican Party, even when out of office.”

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

CW22 18/169

“We see [Republican’s] solidarity again & again, even in standing firm against the truth. We might recollect how few Republicans accepted Biden’s win/ Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in the time between the voting & Biden’s inauguration.”

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CW22 18/170

“Some [Republicans] still maintain that lie. With Trump beating the election-fraud drum, very few would even acknowledge the election’s actual outcome."

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CW22 18/171

“[Republicans] attained solidarity in the Big Lie [about a stolen 2020 election]. That is what gives them their gains despite their corruption.”

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CW22 18/172

“We saw that [unusual Republican solidarity come of their corruption] when Obama was president as well. How many times did we see Republicans in perfect array going up against Obama, Pelosi, Reid, the Democrats?”

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CW22 18/173

“Those rascally conservatives were so pleased with themselves in 2009. They couldn’t be more proud when not a single one of their hundreds in the House voted for either the Democratic stimulus or budget in Obama’s first year.”

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CW22 18/174

“[Republicans] continued that solid front in blocking any & all benefits to the people under Trump, as well. & they are doing all they can of that with Biden as president, now.”

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CW22 18/175

“*“Wtf! Are you in grade school?”

“In 2009, the Republicans were so proud of that: They “stared down” Obama (What the fuck are they in grade school?).”

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CW22 18/176

“We had Arlen Specter, only at the end of his career become a Democrat, who voted in the Senate for the stimulus plan along with the lone two Republican senators—two women, Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins from Maine.”

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CW22 18/177

“Now that I think about it...they’re being so cohesive & so disciplined...you just got to wonder if some of them tried to take ol’ Arlen Specter out to the woodshed & that’s why he ran to the Democrats.”

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CW22 18/178

“*The Fall of “Obvious Truths”*

“How do they get Republicans to be so disciplined? Well, one of the things is, they’ve all got the same aim [money].”

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CW22 18/179

“Whereas if you’re a Democrat, you’re going to have all kinds of concerns; the party allows you to have them. Some Dems might be more interested in health care, & some might be thinking education is the answer….”

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CW22 18/180

“But with Republicans it’s all the same—corporations, you must help the corporations out...“I’ll help you help your big corporation & you’ll help me help my big corporation, & we’ll all continue to get reelected & get plenty of money.””

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CW22 18/181

“*Republicans in plain sight hidden*

“So that’s a good way of viewing their differences.”

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CW22 18/182

“But most folks would hardly know that, because Republicans are very effective in avoiding any talk about anything that might give them away. I mean none of the Republicans want to be showed up for what they are *really* in office for.”

->... drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO…

CW22 18/183

“*But it’s no longer crazy talk*

“Of course, this abject distinction between the major parties has become most pronounced over the course of the last fifty years.”

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CW22 18/184

“What I’m saying now doesn’t sound as crazy as when I learned it, when I saw it happening & first spoke of it. I saw this increasing corruption of Republicans to the point of it becoming overt & blatant in the last 20, 30 years...”

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CW22 18/185

“…the fall of “obvious truths.” By this I mean [Republicans & the Filthy Rich have] become so arrogant & callous in their lying & corruption they have become careless in hiding it. & now it’s as plain as day.”

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CW22 18/186

“*Naked Republicans*

“So this viewpoint that Republicans are an owned & paid for subsidiary of corporate behemoths over that time became a more frequently expressed perspective..."

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CW22 18/187

“…[that Republicans are an owned & paid for subsidiary of corporate behemoths became a more frequently expressed perspective] especially since Bush’s ignoble slide & abject economic & diplomatic failures.”

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CW22 18/188

“For anyone who has a memory, though, we see that Trump was a continuation—a treasonous, lying, larcenous, incredibly costly one—of the corruption & mismanagement of government we got with W. Bush.”

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CW22 18/189

“Because of Trump’s treason & attempted coup, some folks are saying it is the end of the Republican Party. In truth, that is one possible outcome.”

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CW22 18/190

“Yet if not [the end of the GOP], their influence is on the decline as a consequence of the Bush & Trump travesties & the ways Republican’s secretive corrupt activities were revealed in broad daylight, as a result of those two.”

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CW22 18/191

“Around the end of Bush’s “regime,” Republicans had declined 20% in numbers, & there was talk of them becoming extinct. They had been showed to be who they are. Finally, people were starting to realize that, yeah,..”

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CW22 18/192

“…yeah, you can be lied to...there was a decline of “obvious truths”—a crack in the Matrix

—corresponding to the light that was dawning & the naked Republicans that could be seen scurrying for the doors.”

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CW22 18/193

This has been the complete Chapter 18 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 18/194

enjoy this threaded version of Ch 18: “Erosion of Reason, Self-Confidence:

“Repetition Makes It Possible to Control and Equal Time for Idiots”

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

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

CW22 18/195

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,

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

CW22 18/196

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

Click link:

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

#Midterms

CW22 18/197

*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 18/198

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 18/199

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…

All my books are sold at cost or the absolute lowest price Amazon allows

#BlueTsunami #FBR

CW22 18/200

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

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

#Midterms #Blue #ClassWar

CW22 18/201

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.

drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO…

CW22 18/202

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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CW22 18/203

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

[e-mail]

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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CW22 18/204

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