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(19,288 posts)They CAN turn on their masters.
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)Eric isn't the one who empowered the Tea Party; it is the Koch brothers and other wealthy interests. Much like the German industrialists of the 1920s, they foolishly believe that they can control the Tea Party once they are in power.
If we aren't careful, and if we do not show up at the polls en masse this November, we are in serious danger of completing our journey toward becoming a theocratic corporate police state.
21st Century fascism, anyone?
libodem
(19,288 posts)Apparently hammered him on 'crony capitalism' and being bought off by ALEC. I appreciate that both sides find this unacceptable. Yes, you are correct the Kochs are the villians.
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Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Too good
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)As Goethe's Sorcerer's Apprentice complained,
Die ich rief, die Geister,
Werd ich nun nicht los.
(The spirits that I summoned, I can't get rid of them)
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Can't beat Goethe.