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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf they create a plausible narrative to steal it ("close polls") they will...
...and, sadly, no one will do a thing about it.
There will be grumbling on websites, headshaking as a Romney administration brings us closer to corporate totalitarianism, etc.
But mostly, everyone will keep going to work (for as long as "work" lasts), buying stuff that funds the corporations who exploit Citizens United, etc.
Forget taking to the streets. People -- including those here -- won't even begin withdrawing their economic participation from the system that is slowly, yet inexorably, killing them.
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If they create a plausible narrative to steal it ("close polls") they will... (Original Post)
villager
Oct 2012
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pscot
(21,024 posts)1. With Rove in the game
you can count on it.
villager
(26,001 posts)2. So, to quote Herr Karl, do we just "roll over" -- again -- when it happens?
pscot
(21,024 posts)3. It's traditional
villager
(26,001 posts)4. As is the feckless response in the face of the blatant thievery
n/t