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shockey80

(4,379 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:02 PM Mar 2018

These high school students are proving something about many adults in America.

They are proving millions of adults have swallowed propaganda whole. They have swallowed so much propaganda they are walking and talking idiots. They have swallowed so much propaganda they are a threat to themselves and to all Americans. Tens of millions of adults have swallowed propaganda not only about guns, but on many issues. Tens of millions of adults voted for Trump. This is the major reason why America has become a place I no longer recognize.

These high school students are not talking propaganda like the adults of America, they are speaking the truth. They will not even talk to someone who talks propaganda. They just say bullshit. They are the cure for the sickness millions of adults have brought to America.

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These high school students are proving something about many adults in America. (Original Post) shockey80 Mar 2018 OP
+1 kimbutgar Mar 2018 #1
Vote them out a kennedy Mar 2018 #2
Without them America would have been lost katmondoo Mar 2018 #3
I'm 58, In general my generation has been a fucking disaster for America. shockey80 Mar 2018 #4
Its a different propoganda. aikoaiko Mar 2018 #5
What does this post mean? brush Mar 2018 #6
Well, before you crown them, be aware that half of Hortensis Mar 2018 #7
Propaganda? Corporate "Free Enterprise"? leanforward Mar 2018 #8
There is a student talking right now about propaganda. shockey80 Mar 2018 #9
+100000000000000 bdamomma Mar 2018 #10

katmondoo

(6,454 posts)
3. Without them America would have been lost
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:13 PM
Mar 2018

I thank all the brilliant young people for saving our country from the ignorance of the past generations.

 

shockey80

(4,379 posts)
4. I'm 58, In general my generation has been a fucking disaster for America.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:21 PM
Mar 2018

Thats the truth, Not just about guns, but about the workplace culture, about healthcare, about how we are easily misled by propaganda. These kids remind me of the America I grew up in back in the 60s and 70s.

aikoaiko

(34,163 posts)
5. Its a different propoganda.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:22 PM
Mar 2018

Does anyone think that if they got everything they wanted that “Never Again!” will another school school shooting happen?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. Well, before you crown them, be aware that half of
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:34 PM
Mar 2018

all today's high school kids are both wired genetically to be conservative and are already exposed to a great deal of propaganda. It starts in childhood with parenting, and today's Kool Aid-soaked adults have been raising children all along.

I remember when a matinee full of kids cheered when aliens destroyed the White House in Independence Day. Growing right-wing extremism and nastiness were well under way, but seeing this antigovernment hostility in children still shocked and dismayed me. Those kids are mostly in their early 30s now, many starting to raise their own. Even those wired to be liberal are no doubt still busy badmouthing Democrats because they're still awash in right-wing Kool-Aid and never smartened up.

There's nothing simple about our problems, and they'll take a long time to fix. On the plus side, more people lean sensible and decent than lean mean and crazy.

leanforward

(1,076 posts)
8. Propaganda? Corporate "Free Enterprise"?
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:51 PM
Mar 2018

I agree with you. Many Americans have swallowed propaganda the GOP puts out concerning corporate efficiency, privatization.

Privatization (corporate efficiency=profits) costs local/regional/state/federal residents/citizens more in the end. Privatization focuses tax dollar cash flow up stream to a select few. If the tasks performed by local/regional/state government are paid to those local citizens there is a multiplier effect on the local economy. Lets get away from tax flow dollars focusing up stream.

Every item purchased is a corporate product and every spendable dollar leaves the community.

The local citizens haven't gotten a pay raise lately.

We can never go back to higher labor wage rates due to corporate efficiencies off shore.

I'm for a guaranteed income for every citizen.

 

shockey80

(4,379 posts)
9. There is a student talking right now about propaganda.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:53 PM
Mar 2018

These students know how to get the truth through their cell phones.

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