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last1standing

(11,709 posts)
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 09:36 PM Dec 2013

When will real change come to America?

I believe it will come when more of us fear the real abuses brought about by our government than the propagandized fear of our neighbors they feed us.

In other words, we will have real change in this country when more people are talking about the 1.3 million individuals who have lost their main source of income today than the dozen who have allegedly been victims of "Knockout" in the last several years.

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doc03

(35,338 posts)
3. I don't think I will ever live to see it. The media such as
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 09:44 PM
Dec 2013

Faux distracts the American people into fearing each other rather than the real enemy the one percent. Like the early days of the Union movement the one percenters stoked up fear of blacks, Italians, Polish, Communists to keep workers minds off of the screwing they were getting in the work place.

Oakenshield

(614 posts)
4. When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 10:07 PM
Dec 2013

That's when you'll have real change. Americans are too fat and complacent to ever rise up.

DerekG

(2,935 posts)
5. Don't despair; history is unpredictable
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 10:12 PM
Dec 2013

Just look at how badly Snowden and Greenwald rattled our Overlords.

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