MrScorpio
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Sat Feb-05-11 10:18 AM
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One would think that the right wing and the ultra rich could stand to learn from 18th Cent. France |
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There's a very instructive lesson there...
But I guess that robbing everyone else blind really affords them the luxury to be quite obtuse to the world around themselves.
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Sat Feb-05-11 10:20 AM
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1. They won't get it until they are introduced to Madame Guillotine. |
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Edited on Sat Feb-05-11 10:21 AM by hobbit709
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Sat Feb-05-11 10:24 AM
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Edited on Sat Feb-05-11 10:29 AM by NewJeffCT
so, they think that controlling the media and the message will allow them to stay in power.
Edited to add - and, frankly, like Bush said, he doesn't care about how history views him, since he'll be dead. The same with these rich people - if they can hang on to power until the end of their lives, then they'll have succeeded. They don't care what comes after them - famine & drought from global warming... polluted water, ground and air... etc. They'll be dead, so it won't affect them.
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Sat Feb-05-11 11:17 AM
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3. They have learned, and very well |
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They've learned that they need to control the channels of information and opinion. They've learned how to convince the sans culottes that they, the rich, are just like them. They've learned how to persuade the chickens to vote for the foxes.
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Sat Feb-05-11 11:29 AM
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4. I wouldn't wish the Terror on anybody |
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Heads rolled and they weren't always wearing a powdered wig.
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Sat Feb-05-11 11:30 AM
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5. Let them eat big Macs. |
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7. They have. They developed sophisticated PR. |
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