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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Salute Our (Founding) Fathers June 14-16, 2013 [View all]DemReadingDU
(16,002 posts)6. PonziWorld: The Most Cynical Society In Human History
6/14/13 The Most Cynical Society In Human History
A society that openly accepts this level of greed, corruption, deception and mealfeasance can't be anything but totally surprised when it all leads to collapse...
For those keeping score at home, here are some of the most egregious openly-accepted deceptions in recent history:
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Neoconned
The United States has been taken over by the Neocon movement. It's abundantly clear, that it no longer matters who is the elected President anymore, because whoever it is will be quickly assimilated by the Neocon borg. Any attempt to oppose the Neocon agenda is dealt with in the harshest of terms, always in the form of a barrage media attack of right-wing pseudo-patriotic sloganeering. Still, the masses at large really don't seem to mind. Since 9/11, the brain-washing has been constant and consistent, that anyone who opposes the Neocon agenda is some sort of seditious traitor. This latest whistleblower for the NSA, Edward Snowden is now being trashed and smeared by the establishment as being an opportunistic communist hell-bent on destroying his own country, when it's the exact opposite.
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