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bluestate10

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28. Some of those people are bright. I know some. But they are dramatically deluded, mostly

Reply to MindMover (Reply #25)

Mon Aug 12, 2013, 09:07 PM

Aug 2013

self-deluded. They listen to Limbaugh lying and sounding intelligent and they believe the lies because in the end, they want to believe the lies. I see no other way out other than fighting them politically and never stepping back from that fight until logic and facts win.

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