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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAll this ReTHUG madness will end when there is an outbreak of some
disease and once millions no longer receive their food stamps in winter there will be an outbreak of some disease.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)...on the gates of the communities where the rich and powerful reside.
And the rich and powerful will feel great discomfort.
That time, for me, cannot come soon enough.
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malaise
(269,054 posts)that date will come sooner not later.
Funny how these people never read the 'fairy tales' from the past.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)2naSalit
(86,647 posts)is that the likely response will similar to the Pinkerton/Henry Ford thing about a century ago when the strikers were brutalized by the private police who shot and beat many of them. Now they have tanks and military grade weapons of mass destruction.
Modern day example would be the way the "civilian" police dealt with the OWS folks.
Other than that, I'd like to see them over-run by everybody else and forced into equalization.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)And that will make the difference.
In the meantime, at the risk of being called names, we may want to look over our Bill of Rights and resist the urges to surrender them.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Until then, it will be a "their problem, not mine" sort of thing.