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Imagine if you will a country taken hostage by an entitled minority (Original Post)
Coyotl
Oct 2013
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This is the path Cruz has chosen in order to bring the US to a dictatorship. He knows he
Thinkingabout
Oct 2013
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)1. Invasion of the Austerions
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)2. This is the path Cruz has chosen in order to bring the US to a dictatorship. He knows he
will not be elected as president and he really does not want to be president he wants to be a dictator, he probably thinks it worked well for Castro and he is going to try to get this for America. If those interested in the TP and some of the other radical rights thinks the dictatorship is going to be good, it will not be. The majority rule will be gone, I have never thought we would come to this point but it is looking like I may be wrong.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)3. He wants to be the new Meme guy.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)4. Don't we actually fund the governments of a few such countries?
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)5. We don't even fund our own government right now.
Name one government we fund!
ffr
(22,671 posts)6. Could be Tea-Hadist zone too
Their inexperience and overconfidence is getting them into a lot of trouble and we're all feeling the pain of their misguided government shutdown.