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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:04 AM Feb 2020

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2500 years later and we still haven't cracked it...

Presupposing the idea that the majority of the poor would not gift that power to the rich because of distortions of truth and power... heh

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2500 years later and we still haven't cracked it... (Original Post) Soph0571 Feb 2020 OP

Information is power. Control the information, you control the majority. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2020 #1

Which is why we are not a true democracy... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #2

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,379 posts)

1. Information is power. Control the information, you control the majority.

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Sat Feb 15, 2020, 12:46 PM

Feb 2020

Wounded Bear

(58,673 posts)

2. Which is why we are not a true democracy...

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Sat Feb 15, 2020, 01:01 PM

Feb 2020

We tend to gloss over the fact that most (all? ) of the founding fathers were basically what we would now call the 1%.

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