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(17,796 posts)I like it.
Just wish it wasn't true.
2naSalit
(86,351 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)apart is the most efficient way to throw people off their land and out of their houses (through taxes, job destruction, etc.) so those assets can be scooped up by the rapacious 1%. They are intent on remaking this country into their own set of fiefdoms, and they're well on their way to accomplishing that.
sawdust
(199 posts)Is it true that a select few are trying to basically purchase the city of Detroit for a privately owned city? Is it possible?
Brigid
(17,621 posts)We will know where to find them, all sequestered in one place, and then . . . Hey, this could be the start of a great dystopian novel!
tridim
(45,358 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)ooooh, dear.
whathehell
(29,035 posts)but your view, I'm afraid, is diminished by your distance from the "action".
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)malaise
(268,724 posts)Rec
Brigid
(17,621 posts)That is all.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)"They" want a hungry Slave Labor Force to do all the work
and compete with each other for the few remaining jobs.
Vox Moi
(546 posts)GOP is an enabling force and cheerleader for the Corporations and the rich.
It is the Corporations and the rich that want the country to degrade (not be destroyed) so they can buy it on the cheap and then rent it back for a profit.
It's about ownership and debt. They own, we owe.
Debt has replaced Religion and Royalty as the mechanism of choice by which a small group can control a large one.
tridim
(45,358 posts)They want the country to fall apart because they hate the country, the majority of voters and the President.