Thread by @sillymickel

Ch 27

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

“The Fall of “Obvious Truths”:

“Arrogance Comes Before the Fall, Lies Are Being Called Out;

“The Awakening, Their Legacy Remaining,

“Everything Hangs in the Balance”

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CW22 27/1

“[*Chapter 27 text begins:*] So, we have these Big Lies, these “obvious truths,” which are actually not true, & they are all-pervasive. It makes it virtually impossible to know what is actually going on.”

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CW22 27/2

“*Lies Finally Being Called for What They Are*

“Yet this corruption & the insane attempt to rearrange reality began to reveal itself gradually as the W. Bush years rolled on.”

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CW22 27/3

“We lived through an inside job on the World Trade Center, an Iraqi War, & finally an utter breakdown of the financial system—the *Great Recession* of W. Bush—resulting in the greatest depression in America since the Great Depression.”

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CW22 27/4

“Well now folks were losing money again. The richest made out on the downslide, shorting the market.”

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CW22 27/5

“Yet just as in the Thirties when the Great Depression was finally so bad that even the wealthy were losing out, there was a change in the media’s coverage of Republican’s corruption & inanity.”

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CW22 27/6

“Toward the end of the W’s assault on the sanity & reason of America, the truth began being told in the media again. The Republican’s, because of the W. Bush debacle, were on the run.”

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CW22 27/7

“[Republicans] were being found out to be the liars they are. That term, *lie*, for the first time in my lifetime began being used for what they do."

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CW22 27/8

“[Republicans] were being discovered to be who they are & what they have been doing all those years began being told.

“This revelation of GOP corruption & detachment from reality continued into the early Obama years, after 2008.”

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CW22 27/9

“All the things Republicans like to do—the undermining of unions & the collective bargaining system, the ever-increasing giveaways to the rich—were being brought into the light.”

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CW22 27/10

“*The Republican Lie About JFK Being a Supply-Sider*

“America was prosperous in the Sixties under Kennedy. & Republicans like to refer to his cutting taxes on the wealthy as support for their policies.”

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CW22 27/11

“[Republicans] like to point to the good economy then, in the 60s, as being the sort of thing that happens with their voodoo economics of shoveling money into wealthy hands. & they dare to imply that JFK would be in agreement with them.”

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CW22 27/12

“Yet Rich-publicans have been extracting far more from America than the modest gain they received with Kennedy. What Republicans will not tell you is John F. Kennedy reduced taxes to percentages in the seventies, for the highest tax bracket.”

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CW22 27/13

“Also,they do not tell you—many [Republicans] are too uneducated or too thoroughly programmed w/in the various indoctrination programs for Righties to even know, actually—that JFK tax cut was actually not implemented till Johnson took office.”

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CW22 27/14

“Hence, the prosperity many of us remember from JFK’s America happened with the marginal rate above 90%. Righties & Republicans are not pointing out America boomed under Eisenhower, a Republican, when the marginal rate was also in the 90s.”

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CW22 27/15

“[Republicans are] avoiding the fact that their hero, Reagan, later took JFK’s levels to the twenties & caused a recession.”

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CW22 27/16

“*The Republican Lie That Cutting Taxes Creates Prosperity*

“We see that Republicans are comparing a small reduction enacted during prosperous times—the early Sixties—with huge cuts in times that are precarious—currently.”

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CW22 27/17

“& [they’re failing to point out how lower taxes in the Twenties before the Depression, in the Eighties before Reagan-Bush’s recession, & in the last decade under Bush all devastated the economy.”

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CW22 27/18

“Despite these dire consequences of their past actions, Republicans would opt for the highest bracket of taxes to be in the low thirties even now when they can hardly be afforded.”

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CW22 27/19

“Additionally, they pushed Obama into continuing their GOP tax cut at the end of 2010 & then blamed him for the economy not responding sufficiently enough for them afterward.”

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CW22 27/20

“It has been calculated, since then, that it was the Republicans putting pressure to reduce the amount of Obama’s plan to save the economy—the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, also known as Obamanomics—”

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CW22 27/21

“—& to delay its full roll out that was responsible for the gradual, however robust, recovery that it did accomplish. The Recovery Act, as it is also called, was passed on February 17, 2009.”

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CW22 27/22

“The economy responded immediately & powerfully, yet in retrospect it was noted that a greater increase & a faster implementation of Obamanomics would have reaped greater & faster rewards.”

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CW22 27/23

“In all these many ways, Republicans firmly maintain that Matrix of misinformation around money & taxes, as they consistently switch the blame for the consequences for their mismanagement, so as to confuse the other-than-wealthy…”

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CW22 27/24

“…[Republicans consistently switch the blame for the consequences for their mismanagement, so as to confuse the other-than-wealthy] & thus keep them vulnerable & ripe for more picking in their next round.”

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CW22 27/25

“*It Is Now Clear That Their Intentions Are No Less Than Those of the Nobles of Old*

“Republicans would keep us helpless for lack of a clearer understanding, as well as to keep us disintegrated & disunited.”

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CW22 27/26

“No big union movements, no big antiwar movements, no big environmental movements, & no movements for the poor & economic justice.”

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CW22 27/27

“The misinformation overlay had become so pervasive during the W. Bush years, the masses had lost the clarity & firmness of resolve they had enjoyed only a decade previous to the W when issues received less of such moneyed corruption.”

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CW22 27/28

“For even Clinton’s America in the Nineties was a time when the truth was easier to make out. Despite the restructuring of America’s informational institutions to benefit the super wealthy, which began in the Seventies,..”

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CW22 27/29

“U.S. media in the Nineties—with a Democrat at the helm of government giving Democrats a louder voice than otherwise—was more likely than afterward to bring accurate information.”

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CW22 27/30

“Such reporting pulled aside the curtain, revealing the concerted Republican campaign to enrich themselves. Hillary Clinton at the time alluded to this collusion of the wealthy in proclaiming a “vast right-wing conspiracy.””

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CW22 27/31

“It became ever more apparent that the aim of the Right was to apply comprehensive & punishing pressure—akin to the Class War it was—on government & social policy at all levels of society to increase their already bloated wealth.”

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CW22 27/32

“It was ever more evident [the Right was] doing this thru a comprehensive policy involving keeping the average American confused, poorer, poorer & poorer, overworked, overwhelmed because of crazy-making ways of doing things,.."

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CW22 27/33

“…[a comprehensive policy involving keeping the average American confused, poorer, poorer & poorer, overworked, overwhelmed because of crazy-making ways of doing things,] helpless, & thus dumber & more controllable, easier to manipulate.”

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CW22 27/34

“*“This Is Not the Way America Is Supposed to Be!”—OWS Protester*

“What does Republicans’ consistent, daily, pervasive & unrelenting repetition & lies accomplish?”

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CW22 27/35

“What does all that amount to? Their intentions are no less than those nobles of old, to keep people in servitude & serfdom, essentially to bring people into compliance with their totalitarian will.”

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CW22 27/36

“Yet I refuse to believe that is the only possible fate for workers & the masses of people. I still actually believe in those things we were all taught about America in our schools. I still think of what we are supposed to be.”

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CW22 27/37

“*We’ve Brought Down Soviet Oppression...Only to Raise It Ourselves*

“However, in our propaganda & lies we have become the Soviets in many ways. We’ve done it in a much slicker way that has got everybody confused, though.”

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CW22 27/38

“Well, I did say this was about the rise & *fall* of the “obvious truths.” & I talked at length about those lies & those obvious “truths” that were never challenged.”

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CW22 27/39

“I hope I made my case that is why Americans could be so easily led like so many sheep. Yet the truth, ever attacked, has become clearer & more apparent over time, once glimpsed, once the wall of misinformation is breached.”

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CW22 27/40

“*Yet What Did It Take for Such Truth to Be Revealed?*

“It is our good fortune for these lies to have become more obvious in recent years & for the perpetrators to become more visible.”

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CW22 27/41

“Yet what did it take for those guys [Republicans] to be seen for what they are? It took a lot of suffering by the American people. For eight long years under the W, it took a lot of being abused by the powerful.”

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CW22 27/42

“The Republicans got so cocky, they took so much money, they were *so* uncaring of the suffering, of the dying of Americans.”

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CW22 27/43

“[The Republicans] were so obviously not caring...not even putting up a pretense of being for the American people, who they were supposed to be representing & on whose side they were *claiming* to be.”

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CW22 27/44

“[The Republicans] were obviously the wealthiest of us & those fighting for those interests of the Filthy Rich, but they were insinuating that they were *all* people, that what suited them was a benefit to us all.”

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CW22 27/45

“*Arrogance Comes Before the Fall*

“But you see, you can get so cocky that you can lose your discipline, & then you start to say things that people can see through."

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CW22 27/46

“We find the economic collapse of 2007-2008 resulted from Republicans, under W. Bush, taking away regulations that people & good-thinking Democrats & such had instituted to protect people from having their life savings taken away from them.”

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CW22 27/47

“These were regulations that were also put into effect to level the playing field with the rich & anybody else playing the stock market.

“We had such regulations, yet [Republicans] went & took them away.”

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CW22 27/48

“We saw that lapdog for the Filthies, Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman for eighteen years, appointed by Ronald Reagan, saying we have come into some bright new era,…”

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CW22 27/49

“…[We saw that lapdog for the Filthies, Alan Greenspan, saying we have come into some bright new era,] during the Nineties & 2000s, when corporations no longer need restraints for they are (magically) now self-regulating.”

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CW22 27/50

“However, when the stock market crashed, Greenspan acknowledged how wrong he had been, expressing astonishment that folks would be so greedy & corrupt.”

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CW22 27/51

“The *New York Times* reported Greenspan’s newly “enlightened” attitude in 2008, two years after he stepped down as Fed Chair, when he was speaking to the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform:”

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CW22 27/52

““Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief.””

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CW22 27/53

“*Their Thievery Blatant, Cocky*

“Well, we saw what happened when corporations had their investment & financial guard rails removed by Republicans. The rich people...they went crazy, they went amok.”

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CW22 27/54

“Even at the end they took 700 billion dollars out of the American Treasury, & got away scot free.

“I was making the point earlier how that was extortion on a massive scale.”

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CW22 27/55

“I brought to mind how extortion happens a lot more among the 100s of millions of Americans, but when they do it on a tiny scale they go to jail. Yet when this elite does it on a*large* scale, well they just talk about it as if it is history.”

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CW22 27/56

“& it’s like, “That’s too bad. We gave all that money to them, & they didn’t do what they said they were going to do. Hmmm. Too bad. I mean there’s nothing we can do.””

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CW22 27/57

“*The American Awakening—The 99% Rising...in a Plundered Land*

“However, people did start to see through the “obvious truths,” finally, through all the haze of omnipresent untruth.”

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CW22 27/58

“Maybe it was because so many people were out of work they had some time to think. I don’t know.

“*99% Rising*

“Then Obama came along. He spoke plainly. He spoke like one of us, because he *was* one of us.”

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CW22 27/59

“Just as Bill Clinton, who incidentally was also raised by a single mother, Obama had a middle-class background & humble origins.”

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CW22 27/60

“[Obama’s] mother was said to be a “hippie” of sorts; she was certainly internationalist in her perspective, not jingoistic. She died owing medical bills and, sadly, struggling with insurance companies.”

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CW22 27/61

“Barrack Obama’s origins have nothing in common with those of, say, a Romney...or a Bush. Let alone a Trump. Obama wasn’t cradled in wealth, & his family had no ties with Nazis like the Bushes.”

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CW22 27/62

“You couldn’t say he wasn’t one of us; you couldn’t make Obama out to be an elitist. Of course,they tried to; they got so cocky there is nothing the Filthy Rich & their Republican lackeys would not speak to see if they could get away with it.”

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CW22 27/63

“Obama was called “elitist” when he was campaigning, & when in office they changed that to “socialist” & un-American.”

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CW22 27/64

“[Obama] had the same kind of pejoratives thrown at him that the 1% have always drummed up against any of us radicals, “hippies,” activists, or any of us coming up from the 99%.”

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CW22 27/65

“[Obama] forgo taking up some lucrative position in the corpocracy after his university years & instead worked as a community organizer. I personally can appreciate that having done something similar at one point in my own life.”

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CW22 27/66

“But, no, hardly elitist, [Obama] spoke like us. He made sense. He used rational arguments like his Democratic predecessors, yet unlike them he could weave that logic with examples & words from our lives.”

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CW22 27/67

“Perhaps Bill Clinton is the only president in recent memory who could really do that as well. And, being an African-American, [Obama] obviously didn’t look like our usual American overlords.”

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CW22 27/68

“Certainly, they tried to make President Obama into some rich person. It is amazing how unerringly the Filthy Rich will paint their opponents with the color belonging to them.”

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CW22 27/69

“One of the big lies they always put out there is that “The Democrats are the ones who are rich.” & they’d say, “Well, the Kennedys….” Seriously, they do this. It is so typical.”

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CW22 27/70

“Nowadays they bring up the name, George Soros. They find the one billionaire on our side.”

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CW22 27/71

“[George Soros’s] critics—MAGAts, Trumpers, Tea Partiers, conspiracy theorists—don’t tell you he’s got one-tenth the wealth of the Koch Brothers who fund the Republicans & the extreme right.”

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CW22 27/72

“With Soros’s billions dwarfed & insect-like up against the mountains of gold behind Republicans, they still make Soros out to be some kind of source of all evil. Unbelievable.”

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CW22 27/73

“Yet that is what the Republicans & the right-wing-nuts do. They will find one example of anything. Always just one example will they be able to come up with, but they will use that to make their crazy “truth.””

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CW22 27/74

“We saw that earlier in the way they used Jerry Rubin, one example, one that did not even fit their narrative of who a Sixties Gen member is, to make their case that Boomers, which Rubin was not, had become capitalist, materialist, & greedy.”

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CW22 27/75

“Yet their “crazy truth,”their attack on others, invariably is a veiled confession of their own ongoing criminal & conspiratorial activity. Or in this case, it is a projection of their own hidden values of avarice, cruelty, & me-spiritedness.”

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CW22 27/76

“Contrary to the charge of Democrats being wealthy, we have Obama’s humble beginnings, yet additionally, President Obama chose a running mate, Joe Biden, who also had unprivileged beginnings.”

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CW22 27/77

“Biden grew up in the unassuming city of Scranton, in the center of the one-time Pennsylvania coal region, only ten miles from where I happened to have been raised.”

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CW22 27/78

“Biden was one of the least moneyed if not the actual poorest of any of those in the Senate. He ran his first campaign on a shoestring budget,..”

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CW22 27/79

“…& now-President Joe Biden was still taking the train to Washington at the time of his nomination to the vice-presidency. You can argue policies of these Democrats all you want, but what you cannot do is include them in the ranks of the 1%.”

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CW22 27/80

“*The Awakening*

“So by the time of the 2008 election & after a sorry 8 yrs of the reign of a foolish Bush, these “obvious truths”—such as that you give money to the rich & it’s gonna create prosperity—well, they were falling.”

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CW22 27/81

“They came out into the light & began being seen to be the lies that they are. Not all the untruths were revealed, of course.”

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CW22 27/82

“Yet some [lies], at great cost to Americans during 8 years & more of suffering, were swept like cobwebs from the minds of an awakening populace in America. The American Awakening began.”

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CW22 27/83

“The Awakening began in reaction to an idiot “king”—W. Bush—& on the shoulders of a new committed generation of Millennials. It swept the first African American ever into the office of the presidency of the United States.”

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CW22 27/84

“However, Barrack Obama’s election was naturally not enough to throw off the vines of tyranny that had grown over America during a full fifty years of “obvious truths.””

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CW22 27/85

“Nevertheless, within a matter of only 2 yrs of his election, by 2010 & continuing into 12, these revelations of the ways people worldwide had been managed like house pets for the gains of the super-rich caught the headwind of an Arab Spring.”

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CW22 27/86

“Not long after the Mideast awakening of 2010, in 2011, this “truth force” sailed into a Wisconsin union movement & an American Autumn.”

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CW22 27/87

“Between the Occupy Wall Street & Wisconsin uprisings in 2011, America saw the largest outpouring of revolutionary fervor since the Sixties.”

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CW22 27/88

“Not only did the throngs of demonstrators mirror, perhaps surpass, the numbers that rose up in the Sixties; but the movement this time was world-wide;”

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CW22 27/89

“the cause—which was rich folks screwing everyone else to benefit only themselves—was the same everywhere in the world. A Global Awakening had begun.”

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CW22 27/90

“*Their Legacy Remaining*

“Nonetheless, the fields upon which we the people arose had been burned & the earth in which we tried to take root had been salted.”

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CW22 27/91

“There had been that massive transfer of wealth upward to the coffers of the already stinking-with-it since the Eighties, over the course of some thirty years.”

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CW22 27/92

“It had been going on full throttle since the Republican coup that put Bush into power in 2000, which, without blinking an eye, swallowed up the Budget Surplus that had tediously been built over the 8 years of the Democrat, Clinton.”

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CW22 27/93

“All that money squandered on those not needing it could have paid for childcare for everybody in America,..”

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CW22 27/94

“…[All that money squandered on those not needing it] could have given everybody in America solar power, so that we would be completely energy independent in that way, not worried about terrorism or anything.”

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CW22 27/95

“No,but all that money was just thrown at the rich people. These very important life-&-death issues were tossed aside as irrelevant in the game. The players were intent on winning,& it was like nobody really cared anymore if anybody got hurt.”

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CW22 27/96

“After all, once you start telling people that poor people deserve to be poor & that they are responsible for any misfortune that others heap on them...even if they get hurt or killed...you’ve opened the door for much more.”

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

CW22 27/97

“It’s like “Oh, yeah, it’s the gangs they’re in. They’re having gang wars, they can’t control themselves, they’re not like the rest of us, they’re always starting trouble, they can’t be helped,.."

THREAD… wp.me/p1C4cs-2HP #Blue #Republicans #Midterms #resist

CW22 27/98

““…they’ll always be poor, the poor we always have with us….”

“& once you start saying things like that, you’re speaking *their* talk. You’re helping to keep the rich in control of you, because you’re helping them to cover up what they do.”

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CW22 27/99

“You’ve allowed [rich folks] to distract you from their nefarious game to focus on some *other* group. You begin having it out for some easy scapegoat & begin to think of those unfortunates as not part of the “real” Americans.”

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

CW22 27/100

“The wealthy have you thinking after a while about this scapegoated group the way they think of you. They do not think you are as human, as deserving of a nice life as them.”

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CW22 27/101

“[The wealthy] want you thinking that there is some group...Jews, blacks, Hispanics, gays...who are responsible for your problems & who are not as deserving, are not as American as you.”

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CW22 27/102

“Thence they create all kinds of lies so you’ve got someone to blame who is not them, who are not the actual perpetrators of these things.”

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CW22 27/103

“*The Fall of “Obvious Truths”*

“In sum, this is what is meant by the rise & *fall* of “obvious truths.””

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CW22 27/104

“We see through their bombardment of inanities & lies, yet they have desperately stepped up their assault...as frightened actors can be expected to do. As cornered rats will do. This proves we are winning.”

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CW22 27/105

“Nonetheless, they increase their control of the dialogue in America with a virtual media monopoly, spinning their line, their narrative almost exclusively & leaving the Internet the only unconquered land outside their broadcast hegemony.”

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

CW22 27/106

“I saw what an extraordinary job Clinton did. Our economy & culture boomed in the Nineties; with his guidance, both rebounded soundly from the Republican recession of the early Nineties.”

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CW22 27/107

“& I saw how that was covered up through the words & actions of Republicans & the owned media, how we were distracted to seeing only a scandal. Oh, yeah, so Bill Clinton had sex. Our leader had sex, how horrible.”

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CW22 27/108

“So all of the people who died because of the Bushes & Reagan, all the suffering caused by rubbing people’s faces in the dirt of poverty are not to be mentioned. But Clinton had sex with some woman; that’s a cause for outrage. Wow.”

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

CW22 27/109

“Yet you hear that enough, & you don’t have any real perspective anymore. You cannot weigh the gravity of one wrong against the other, or in this case a supposed wrong against real ones.”

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CW22 27/110

“Despite this, Americans were starting to know again what is really important during the Obama years. Pushing against the media tides, they were connecting outside the public limelight. They were using the Internet to exchange views.”

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

CW22 27/111

“[Folks, during the Obama years,] were learning & taking action, gathering by the hundreds of thousands in rallies for change & to speak out against what was continuing to be imposed on them to benefit the well-off.”

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

CW22 27/112

“They were doing this despite being ignored by the media, the media continuing its policy of trying to make some realities to go away while blowing up the ridiculous & the insignificant into matters of great & pressing portent.”

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CW22 27/113

“In spite of it all, I think Americans have started to get back their solidarity. I think they are starting to get back their ability to reason.”

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CW22 27/114

“If only the sanity arising in the population were not so drowned out by the overwhelming amounts of money being poured into all media—the Internet, social media now, too, where Russian bots prevail to shout down every sliver of intelligence”

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CW22 27/115

“…[the Internet, social media now, too, where Russian bots prevail to shout down every sliver of intelligence] & awareness tweeted or posted.”

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CW22 27/116

“It is the corporations, with the Filthy Rich, Putin, & global oligarchs, that is the monster behind the events of nations, now.”

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CW22 27/117

This has been the complete Chapter 27 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”

READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #Blue #BLM

CW22 27/118

enjoy this threaded version of Ch 27:

“The Fall of “Obvious Truths”:

“Arrogance Comes Before the Fall, Lies Are Being Called Out;

“The Awakening, Their Legacy Remaining,

“Everything Hangs in the Balance”

or click link & enjoy entire book

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CW22 27/119

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

The entire book is available online at the links

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CW22 27/120

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 Democratic & progressive causes everywhere, as you wish,

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

CW22 27/121

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 Blue & progressive causes

#BLM

CW22 27/122

*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 27/123

The book was written as a primer on history & current events. Especially to help folks see thru Republican lies

said about *Culture War, Class War 2022":

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

drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO…

CW22 27/124

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 27/125

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

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

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CW22 27/136

Democrats need to WIN BIG

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 the word out to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

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

CW22 27/137

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 27/138

& 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.

&, always, VOTE DEMOCRATIC

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CW22 27/139

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