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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2020, 07:25 AM Mar 2020

They say you get the leaders you deserve... we are so screwed

Where the fuck is the competence and the gravitas? When was the critical point of pivot away from normal. I know that the great recession and the austerity era made people vote in strange patterns, but it goes back much further than that. I think 40 years ago Reagan and Thatcher led to where we are now... up shit creek without a paddle.

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They say you get the leaders you deserve... we are so screwed (Original Post) Soph0571 Mar 2020 OP

Screwed, blued, and tattooed Walleye Mar 2020 #1

It is what happens Chainfire Mar 2020 #2

apathy, propaganda, loss of critical thinking skills NRaleighLiberal Mar 2020 #3

Walleye

(31,017 posts)

1. Screwed, blued, and tattooed

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 07:37 AM

Mar 2020

Chainfire

(17,536 posts)

2. It is what happens

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 07:48 AM

Mar 2020

When you put Fascists in positions of leadership. Trump and the rest of the Republican party are owned, lock, stock and barrel by big business and it may be too late to break their hold on us.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)

3. apathy, propaganda, loss of critical thinking skills

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:28 AM

Mar 2020

right wing hate radii
faux news
twitter and facebook
the teevee

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