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The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
Politico ^ | July/August 2014 | Nick Hanauer

Posted on 12/10/2021 4:14:17 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: no-to-illegals
I like the summation at the end:

"Even the best of us, in the worst of circumstances, are barefoot, standing by a dirt road, selling fruit. We should never forget that, or forget that the United States of America and its middle class made us, rather than the other way around. "

41 posted on 12/10/2021 7:50:45 AM PST by glorgau
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To: mistfree

How to stop illegal immigration —Simple. Turn America into a place no one wants to go. Like Cuba and Venezuela! Only one group has power the rest must labor and starve. This will solve everything. We will put up walls to keep American’s from escaping into Freedom in Mexico. All natural resources to be sent to the real world power—China. Collective farms to feed the people of China while Americans starve. Citizenship will be a liability in this new world—all the rich will be “Citizens of the World” and Chinese taught in all schools. To be called an American will be an insult as we go into the New Collective World Culture. Welcome Comrades! Biden is leading us to a new world Order.


42 posted on 12/10/2021 10:05:47 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: FLT-bird

Exactly! Get government out of the mix. The founders would be sickened at what people put with government-intrusion-wise.


43 posted on 12/10/2021 10:23:24 AM PST by curious7
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To: glorgau

I too would like an M1


44 posted on 12/10/2021 1:28:06 PM PST by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Interesting to look back at these opinions now just 7 years later and at the places he cites as successes, San Francisco and Seattle, and the place his fellow travelers would want to escape to if things go bad, New Zealand.

They each have now had their way and have done all they have wanted to do and spent all they wanted to spend, more or less, and just look at those same places today. Yikes.

I guess it’s true, if you stay on a road long enough you’ll get to where it goes and now those are some of the last places I would want to go to live or to work today.

And all because of wicked self-deception, politics and consequences.

Because, once you get to where those roads go, there is no escape, only consequences.

We puny humans can’t change or break the rules the world runs by.

All we can do is demonstrate how they work as they either correct us or break us if and when we try it our way, instead.

Do you really believe we’ll have to wait another 7 years to find or figure this out?

I doubt we’ll even have another 7 years unless we turn around and head back soon, so why not now?

45 posted on 12/14/2021 10:29:25 AM PST by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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