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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know, when you are afraid your empathy for others goes down. You just care about
you and your your family. I know. I was stalked for years. Maybe all this GOP/NRA push is not just to sell guns but to sell fear, reducing empathy across the nation. So they can get people to vote against helping their neighbours or the poor.
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You know, when you are afraid your empathy for others goes down. You just care about (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2012
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And to get regular folk in the USA to vote against helping out each other and the poor.
applegrove
Dec 2012
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arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)1. I think you have a valid point. n/t
TDale313
(7,820 posts)2. They absolutely want to keep us afraid
Not just of physical threats and violence, but job and financial insecurity. When the masses are scared, they are far easier to control.
applegrove
(118,682 posts)3. Oh yeah. And lack of health care too. All of it to make people less
rich in their hearts and minds. More afraid. With a much lesser capacity to care about the welfare of others outside of their immediate loved ones.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)4. Yep. And all of this...
Also makes it much easier to to play "divide and conquer"
applegrove
(118,682 posts)5. And to get regular folk in the USA to vote against helping out each other and the poor.