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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 08:18 PM Feb 2013

One of the biggest embarrassments to this country is the Congress. We rival the

foreign countries we see fighting in their chambers. We have not become physical, yet, but the intellectual decline is frightening. Rightwing redistricting has enabled some of the most inept politicians to lock themselves in the people's house in the form of teabaggers and other extremist with no real base but a whole lot of hate. Will this ever be corrected, or is the world's major power about to become a third world wreck?

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One of the biggest embarrassments to this country is the Congress. We rival the (Original Post) mfcorey1 Feb 2013 OP
It's like the Congress in Idiocracy. Drunken Irishman Feb 2013 #1
We live in a society where many people believe no-nothingness is a... kairos12 Feb 2013 #2
You raise good and serious questions. elleng Feb 2013 #3

kairos12

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2. We live in a society where many people believe no-nothingness is a...
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 08:22 PM
Feb 2013

hallmark of respect, not a mark of ignorance.

The ruling one percent like a population that worships stupidity and revels in a pool declining in intelligence.

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