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Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:02 PM Jan 2017

When you leave people with nothing...

Then you leave them with nothing to lose.

The people will ALWAYS find resources, within themselves or by enlisting the help of others, to fight and survive. They will do anything to achieve that.

The biggest mistake in history, made repeatedly over and over, is that those in power discount all this. They think that they can throw the "weak" on the waste pile and forget about them. They are wrong.

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When you leave people with nothing... (Original Post) Dave Starsky Jan 2017 OP
Absolutely!! KT2000 Jan 2017 #1
Yep. Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. TDale313 Jan 2017 #2
all the dems had to do was vote for the dem nom none Ohioblue22 Jan 2017 #3
What are you talking about? Dave Starsky Jan 2017 #4
They will eat the rich MFM008 Jan 2017 #5

KT2000

(20,581 posts)
1. Absolutely!!
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:12 PM
Jan 2017

When the RW and powerful throw people overboard because of their various prejudices and hate - they cease to exist for them. What they never understand is that those "left out" will form their own parallel societies that operate under THEIR own rules. The response is to come down hard and disapprove more violently. Build more prisons, deny equal opportunity etc.

But that formula works for some - as long as they know there are others suffering, they feel safe and content. That to me is the RW ideology in a nutshell.

MFM008

(19,814 posts)
5. They will eat the rich
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 05:31 PM
Jan 2017

perhaps figuratively. BUT
Maggots carcass could feed New York alone...................

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