Thread by @sillymickel

Chapter 21 is titled

“The Great American About Face:

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

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

by Michael Adzema

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

CW22 21/1

“[*Chapter 21 text begins:*] “You don’t know what I’m getting at. But this is the indicator of the gradual change in our country that would be missed by those younger than myself.”

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CW22 21/2

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

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CW22 21/3

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

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CW22 21/4

“*What’s Love Got to Do with It?*

“No. See, what’s happened today is that it’s not even society at large that is supposed to benefit. Compassion is not a goal, or even a value, when negotiating.”

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CW22 21/5

“The scornful repetition of those words, “bleeding heart liberal,” has had its intended effect. No, no, it’s not the function of government to *care* about anybody anymore.”

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CW22 21/6

“The scornful repetition of those words, “bleeding heart liberal,” has had its intended effect. No, no, it’s not the function of government to *care* about anybody anymore.”

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CW22 21/7

“It may be hard for you to realize what a huge change this is from, like, Roosevelt days. The Great Depression went on for a long time, crushing hopes and aspirations, shortening lives, increasing suffering.”

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CW22 21/8

“People lived beneath this yoke [the Great Depression] for a time that must often have felt interminable. They came out of this darkness only slowly, and with great effort.”

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CW22 21/9

“*There Was a Time When Kindness Was a Noble Thing*

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

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CW22 21/10

“This is the way it was then and for most of the decades afterward, not much changing. Even Eisenhower, a Republican ... he wasn’t, y’know, *at war* with the common good in the Fifties;”

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CW22 21/11

“[Eisenhower] didn’t think govt was *not* supposed to be compassionate, that it wasn’t *their* job or anything, that they couldn’t give anybody a helping hand or anything like that. Yet starting w Reagan & slowly since then it's become that.”

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CW22 21/12

“*People Suffering, People Dying...& This Guy Thinks It’s a Card Game!*

“Perhaps you’ve heard it too. At the time of it, you would see it discussed all over. There was Rick Santelli on CNBC. This was during the Great Recession of 2007-2009…”

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CW22 21/13

“…[the Great Recession of 2007-2009] when it first got out Obama might *just*—w millions of foreclosures, people living in tent-cities & everything—might just present as part of his overall policy to deal w the problem something to *help*...”

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CW22 21/14

“…okay, there’s one of those words (help), a certain game-loser; so you know what’s coming next...something that might “help” people who are heading into foreclosure, people losing their homes.”

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CW22 21/15

“The idea was to renegotiate deals with the bank, to recalculate the terms of their mortgage to make it workable to both sides again.

“Don’t forget the banks had before that been given huge amounts of money by the American people.”

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CW22 21/16

“So in this plan, instead of proceeding with a foreclosure the banks were asked to be willing to accept slightly less money on the loan than the original terms called for.”

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CW22 21/17

“It was thought, what would that hurt? After all the banks aren’t going to lose. At the expense of the American people they’ve made out like bandits...in fact, they’ve been bandits...they used extortion to get that money out.”

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CW22 21/18

“With this policy [the banks] would get *some* money out of the loan instead of none in the case of the foreclosure; they would even still make a profit.”

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CW22 21/19

“The only thing [the banks] wouldn’t be able to do is to add that note to the pile of losses they would be claiming as part of the government bailout.”

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CW22 21/20

“An aside, that last part—making less money than if they could claim it a loss—is the key to understanding the uproar about Obama’s plan to help financially strapped homeowners.”

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CW22 21/21

“So we saw Rick Santelli, a highly visible financial commentator for CNBC, someone I saw every day for years. He stood in front of the camera on the floor of the stock exchange; CNBC broadcast it to the world.”

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CW22 21/22

“[Santelli] was against Obama’s plan to “help” mortgage-holders...they should probably have used a different word than *help*. As he put it “In America, a card laid is a card played.” He said, “This does away with contract law!””

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CW22 21/23

“This was February 19th, 2009. It has been widely said that this “rant,” as it was called, was the beginning of the Tea Party movement in America. Steven Perlberg, writing for *Business Insider*, wrote,..”

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CW22 21/24

“‘A lot of people have been credited with starting the modern-day tea party but make no mistake, it was Rick Santelli,..’”

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CW22 21/25

“”Glenn Beck told *Business Insider** in an email. ‘[Santelli’s] off the cuff monologue spoke the words that millions of Americans felt but could not nor dare not speak….””

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CW22 21/26

“‘All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I’m going to start organizing,’ he screamed from the CME on February 19, 2009. It was time, Santelli said, for another Tea Party.”

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CW22 21/27

“[Santelli’s] infamous segment—in response to a minor homeowner bailout—is now credited w helping launch the Tea Party tidal wave that began during the early years of the Obama admin & ended up‘shellacking’ the Democrats in the 2010 midterms.”

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CW22 21/28

“*Yes, We’ve Made This Mistake Before*

“And what Santelli said, well, yeah, yeah, they used to say those things back in Hoover’s day too, alright? & then when everybody was hurting,..”

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CW22 21/29

“& there was thirty to forty percent unemployment & nobody was making any money including the rich fat cats & they were losing their shirts in investments & no longer making money in the stock market, then...”

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CW22 21/30

“*then*...all of a sudden, okay, then it was okay to help out people who were starving.”

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CW22 21/31

“*But Why Do We Insist on Making It Again?*

“Well, why did it have to get to that? & why has it gotten to that again, even to where it’s back to where it was...again...at the beginning of the Great Depression: No compassion *allowed*.”

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CW22 21/32

“What is that? It’s like “Oh, these people are all deadbeats here.” Oh, yeah, all those millions of people? Doesn’t have anything to do with all that money that went to the rich people?”

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CW22 21/33

“Nothing to do with the fact that over the course of all these years we’ve seen the marginal tax rate for the very wealthy go from 91% in the 50s & 60s, when the American economy was booming, to where the top tax rate is down to 37% now?”

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CW22 21/34

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

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CW22 21/35

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

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CW22 21/36

”However, to offset those huge cuts in revenue—allowing the super wealthy such low taxes—did we get any more prosperous in that time?”

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CW22 21/37

“Did those increasing cuts in taxes for the wealthy increasingly stimulate the economy, as we were told they would? I repeat, did we get any more prosperous in that time? Did the tax cuts work the way the fat cats said they would?

“Well, No.”

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CW22 21/38

“Well, I was there. No, they didn’t...and we didn’t...didn’t get more prosperous. We’re a lot worse off. Y’know, when I was growing up in the Fifties & Sixties my father was poor. But only *he* had to work!”

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CW22 21/39

“[My father] might bring home 50 dollars a week, with six kids. But my *mother* didn’t have to work. Believe me, fifty dollars in that day, it wasn’t like it was worth a thousand dollars or something today; there wasn’t that much difference.”

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CW22 21/40

“*Kumbaya. My Lord!*

“So there used to be this idea of benefiting *society-at-large*.”

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CW22 21/41

“There was this thing put out—even though it was a sham on the part of Republicans—that if you could *somehow* convince the Democrats that what you wanted was going to benefit the “society at large” they might come over to your side.””

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CW22 21/42

“Republicans still found it useful to promote the idea that they were representing the people.”

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CW22 21/43

“*What “Extra” Kitchen?*

“But no, no, no. If these days you say something is going to benefit somebody .... Like Rick Santelli said, “Well, a card laid...contract law’s all important...blah, blah, blah.... Do any of you people out there...”

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CW22 21/44

“[Santelli] was talking to the stock exchange people; he said, “Do any of you want to pay your hard-earned money so that the guy next door can have that extra kitchen that he put in?””

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CW22 21/45

“Now, where the hell did that come from? I hardly think that many of the people losing their homes were out there spending all their money on “extra” kitchens. So what’s the implication?”

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CW22 21/46

“*More Likely It Was Your “Extra” Kitchen, Rick. And, Thank You Very Much but We’ve Already Paid, & Dearly, for It*

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CW22 21/47

“Duh! Doesn’t that sound like the banks? “Extra kitchen”...Doesn’t that sound like the stockbroker people; doesn’t that sound like the people who are talking about the other people this way? Wow.”

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CW22 21/48

“Anyway, [Rick Santelli’s rant] was played over & over again. There were even people, even some pundits & governmental folks in public who were saying, “Yes, he was expressing what a lot of people are thinking.” And, what the hell is that?”

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CW22 21/49

“That nobody can catch a break unless you’re rich? See, that’s what happens when something is repeated over & over & over again... self-benefiting mean-spiritedness like this can be spoken of as being, somehow, reasonable.”

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CW22 21/50

“*A Broken Person Is Preferable to a Broken Rule in This Game*

“And what is it that was repeated over & over & over again? Well, let me just put it this way...because I was there.”

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CW22 21/51

“You know the real issue here...when you say that it’ll benefit “society at large” or you say it’s going to help or benefit real people, or you indicate in some way that it’s gonna ease the suffering of a lot of people.”

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CW22 21/52

“The real thing insinuated has to do with that thoroughly maligned idea—“bleeding heart liberal”—& things like that.

“Worse than that, these days, is when that human touch somehow gets in, it’s no more considered a game!”

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CW22 21/53

““It’s supposed to be a game,” that’s what they’re thinking, now. & it’s like, “Aw come on, you’re trying to benefit people instead of playing a game.””

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CW22 21/54

“That’s where that contract law comes in, it’s like, “No, that’s breaking the rules.” Well we’re supposed to be running a government for the people not for the rules, aren’t we?”

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CW22 21/55

“*You Value People Over Rules? You’re No Doubt a “Hippie”*

“So you don’t even hear goodness coming in anymore.“

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CW22 21/56

“Or if you do hear the word *compassionate* it’s at most the naive utterance of someone that’s wet behind the years...some newbie or hippie...some “soft-headed” person who might have used it in a question in a town meeting, or the like.”

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CW22 21/57

“And that’s another thing. A *hippie*? What the hell’s a hippie? Well, this hippie can tell you. That is a definition I’ve watched change over the years.”

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CW22 21/58

“[*Hippie’s*] meaning in these strange days & among these current cold-hearted people is way different than originally.”

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CW22 21/59

“In looking at this change in the meaning of *hippie* we bring into view another aspect of the overall argument I am making. I can tell you now that at the end you will see it all comes together neatly.”

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CW22 21/60

“It all makes sense because of some basic human feelings, which are even present in large groups.”

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CW22 21/61

“Unfortunately those widely shared feelings are completely at odds with another set of commonly held basic human feelings that can be present & shared in another large group. That might sound complicated.”

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CW22 21/62

“*Mean-Spirited = The “Real” Reality of The Game*

“What I’m trying to say is, who might that hippie be? Basically, these days, if you are one of those who uses words like *compassionate*...you’re a hippie!

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CW22 21/63

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

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CW22 21/64

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

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CW22 21/65

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

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CW22 21/66

“Like earlier I brought up the example of the Food & Drug Administration as something that benefits everyone, actual people, though it puts constraints on businesses.”

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CW22 21/67

“Government seen this way exists to protect American people in situations where they would otherwise be powerless.”

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CW22 21/68

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

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CW22 21/69

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

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CW22 21/70

“…[that saving lives was] more important than money or profits or the comfort & pleasure of ppl with riches. Those turn-of-the-century “hippies” valued life over arbitrary rules, people over profits, the common good over the capitalist game.”

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CW22 21/71

“But I guess nowadays they’d say, “No, no, no...those people *paid* for that food!” And, you know, let the buyer beware. A dollar laid is a dollar played, after all….”

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CW22 21/72

“*“Part Four: Class War—The Matrix” Sections One & Two Reprise*

“Coming up, is the third & final section in this series delineating the history of the American Republicans’ incredibly disciplined, relentlessly persistent,..”

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CW22 21/73

“…& amazingly cohesive...seemingly coordinated...fifty-year campaign to gain advantage & wealth for their benefactor corporations & the Filthy Rich through totally concocted untruths.”

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CW22 21/74

“*All in the Family*

“We are seeing here revealed the fifty-year invisible family & community that surrounded all Americans..."

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CW22 21/75

“…[the 50-year invisible family that surrounded all Americans] & affected every aspect of their lives, including, & intentionally, the basic components of one’s personality, & the erosion of reason, Soul, & independent thought or action.”

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CW22 21/76

“*American Awakening*

“I am showing how only because of increasingly cocky & greedy acts & extreme over-reaching “in broad daylight,” before the entire world, did this malevolent surround become visible.”

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CW22 21/77

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

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CW22 21/78

“Together these reveals, displayed unintentionally however blatantly & unknowingly by the Republicans & the Filthy Rich... & before the entire world...disclosed to the masses of Americans some “cracks,”…”

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CW22 21/79

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

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CW22 21/80

“*“They’re so cute when they jump for their treat”*
As this Awakening continued, some began remembering events, the memories of which had been “bleached” out of awareness until just then,..”

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CW22 21/81

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

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CW22 21/82

“*”From here, they look just like ants”*

“It is clear that the Filthy Rich had an absolute certainty of their success because of their unmitigated power."

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CW22 21/83

“What is also evident is the absolute inability of the Filthy Rich...which was the shocking thing they’d carelessly let out & therefore displayed to the world...”

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CW22 21/84

“…[the] absolute inability of the Republicans & the Filthy Rich to actually notice, let alone view or act towards, Americans as anything even living or having sentient ability, let alone as humans, people, or individuals.”

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

CW22 21/85

“*All We Have to Do Is Dream*

“And as for the term “fellow Americans” often employed by Rich-publican politicos to make it seem as if you are one of them, or they are one of you,

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CW22 21/86

“…if that thought even crossed your mind for a second as being anything but a device, you are not fully appreciating just how literally I mean for my words to be taken.”

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CW22 21/87

“You may very well, in fact, be deeply dreaming & have missed the crack in the dream state that had shone the light in the eyes of a sufficiently large segment of the world population as to cause them to come out of trance…”

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CW22 21/88

“…& begin to untie thr formerly invisible bonds, so that they could try looking around, which led to the realization of the reality that had been blocked from view..”

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CW22 21/89

“…& the processes of control, & the things in their lives that were determined for them by the Filthies, though ordinary folks thought they had been making decisions for themselves.”

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CW22 21/90

“*What The 1% Want to Do with Us*

“And the last aspect of this series delineates the real factors in your life & the outlines of the real intentions for our lives these puppet masters have had … & have even now in mind.”

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CW22 21/91

“*Processing the Populace*

“In the first section of “Part Four: Class War—The Matrix,” which is Chapters Fourteen through Seventeen in this book. I talked about the fifty-year Republican campaign to convince the media & the American people

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"...[the 50-year Republican campaign to convince the media & the American people] of certain truisms that had nothing to do with the truth, in fact were almost one-hundred percent of the time, the opposite of the truth."

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“It is a pretty amazing story of a campaign 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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“It 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 21/95

“The second section of “Part Four: Class War—The Matrix,” which is Chapters Eighteen through Twenty-One, elaborated on these parts of the campaign, which together resulted in an erosion of reason among Americans.”

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CW22 21/96

“I discussed how this erosion of reason resulted in an erosion of action as well & why this wud be desirable by the societal puppet-masters. Next,I discussed the means of the manipulation—the media, the puppet strings employed by the masters.”

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CW22 21/97

“*The Great Hustle (Cool Hand Gipper)*

“After that I talked about the way our lives were focused away from human concerns & reduced to the level of a game, contrived by the elite & which was geared toward their ends,

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CW22 21/98

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

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CW22 21/99

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

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“*$$$ 666 The Great Religion*

“Last, I bring out how even this ruse of societal welfare was ever more let go of, as the puppet-kings gained in strength & success in converting mass minds to a belief in the dogma of the game they controlled.”

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CW22 21/101

“*Dogma Keeping Out Pesky Saviors*

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

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

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“*And Then The Awakening*

“As the super wealthy gathered power, they became more blatant & reckless in their machinations.”

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“The game was successfully installed as the focus & preeminent value of life itself; but in this headiness of accomplishment, they became complacent about their subterfuge.”

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CW22 21/105

“Reckless in their maneuvers & ever more careless in concealing it, they risked being exposed.”

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CW22 21/106

“*Nightmare Apparent*

“Aspects of their self-benefiting game play & the cockiness with which they pursued them are further disclosed here in Section Three, which is Chapters Twenty-Two through Twenty-Seven.”

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CW22 21/107

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

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CW22 21/108

“How the masses awaken & behold in horror the shackles & blinders upon them is described beginning here & in subsequent parts of *Culture War, Class War 2022*.”

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CW22 21/109

“Sections One & Two of “Part Four: Class War—The Matrix” are intended to be read before this one, but if you haven’t done so this review will give you a platform from which to view what follows.”

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CW22 21/110

“*“Brother, I Do Not Know Thee”*

“Section 3 continues from the end of section 2 where I was describing how the brouhaha around Rick Santelli’s callous comment revealed a wholesale & disturbing change in American’s sensitivities…”

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CW22 21/111

“…[Santelli’s callous comment revealed a wholesale & disturbing change in American’s sensitivities] toward each other & in particular a callousness about each other’s suffering. Section Three continues from here.”

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CW22 21/112

This has been the complete Chapter 21 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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enjoy this threaded version of Ch 21: “The Great American About Face:

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

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

by Michael Adzema

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

The entire book is available online at the links. If you want to see the entire book & read Ch 21 & any others, click any link in thread

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& you can download a free copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* at the links.

Feel free to download it, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic & progressive causes, as you wish,

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CW22 21/116

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

Click link:

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

Download as many copies as you wish; use it to help Democratic & progressive causes

CW22 21/117

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

was written as a primer on history & current events, to provide a context for younger gens, who have not lived thru what this book reveals, so they can understand how we got where we are.

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CW22 21/118

The book was written to provide an historical context to today’s events, for those who haven’t lived it.

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 21/119

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

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

To help raise awareness of & to support Democratic & progressive

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

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CW22 21/121

Democrats need to continue 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 word out to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

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CW22 21/122

If Democrats don't continue to win big & fight GOP treason the Ukraine war will not be just there. We will be fighting Putin here, in a civil war, if the party working for him, Republicans, get power again.

You choose. I suggest, get active.

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& 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.

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