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Ol Janx Spirit

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10. Humans have an instinct to protect what they have and expand it if they can, and as long as...

Wed Dec 3, 2025, 10:19 AM

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...the wealthy can convince people that what they need to protect most is their religious freedom and access to guns then you can take all the money under the guise of helping them protect those things.

Sure, the other side may want to give you affordable healthcare, but they also want to take away your religious freedom and your guns.... We will protect your religious freedom and your guns for big tax cuts and deregulation and a low minimum-wage.

It has worked well. They think they are voting for their own interests.

Meanwhile, generational wealth slips away leaving their offspring even more vulnerable to the same arguments and even more desperate to protect what they still have.

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