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May 1, 2012

The GOP are making their base angry on how Obama has 'used the bin laden issue politically' so that

the base or independants will not cede any territory (beliefs) to Obama on the bin laden issue. Anger does that. It prepares you to fight for territory without any sober second thoughts. So when they make their base angry, they make them stubborn and closed to any new idea or feeling (gratitude towards Obama for getting bin Laden).

April 30, 2012

With the corporations acting to co-opt systems, economies and industries they keep good information

from reaching the people. Monsanto buys an organization that thinks Monsanto is guilty of declining bee syndrome. The Prison industrial complex tries to stop the legalization of marijuana. Banks give loans to people not remotely qualified to pay them back. The corporations/industries are making up a "reality" as they go.

The main assumption in all economic models is that 'given perfect information' markets will find equilibrium. Well if the co-optocracy is out there destroying 'good information' then market failure will result as it did with the housing bubble.

April 27, 2012

This election season Democrats must fight with all their emotions. Happy people are nice, open and

pollyannaish. This means they are a little delusional and don't see danger but they can also connect well with others and cooperate to do great things. Angry people are a little out of sorts so that they can defend their territory to the nth degree or grab little more territory. It is sad people who are the least delusional. You can't be sad all the time but every so often you should be, just so you can touch base with reality and put yourself on a better path to get what you need and dream of. Being sad will allow you to see your own weaknesses as well as how to better judge of other people, including your foes. Explains why the GOP keep their base ANGRY. They gain territory in the public sphere that way. Democrats need to get angry to they can fight back and take the country back too. They did with Occupy and it worked. Why we see the GOP trying to dial down the anger on the left by labeling them (being against the 1% buying government is class warfare). Labeling is a tactic psychopaths use to fool good people into changing their behavior & change their thinking on how they are acting. So Democrats you need to be angry, sad and happy in this elections season. Bring all your emotions to this election and you bring your A game.

April 22, 2012

Is there a debating site out there? You know where the right and left could have an online debate

on the issus that would be rated by viewers to see who wins. And the winner then goes on
to the next round meeting up with a foe from the opposite party who won their last round too?
Cause when we really discuss the issues in detail the GOP loses. They are all smoke and mirrors.
Viewers could offer talking points to the person 'up' on their side as the debate progresses. A debate could
go on for days. Viewers/participants would register as either a democrat or a republican.

April 10, 2012

This Trayvon Martin case ****s them up. How are you supposed to judge someone harrassing

you & following you on the street after this? Same as racism cause it is racism. It is a big piece of shit the world has put on these kids young lives which traumatizes them. I mean the police and the lawyers are having a hard enough time dealing with the this specific case and they have had weeks ........ how they hell are 17 year old boys supposed to be any wiser in the seconds it took for this to happen to Trayvon.

April 8, 2012

All this "let's control womens' vaginas" meme in the GOP about freedom for conservative men from

sublimating their testosterone desires to control women's sexuality, women's time? Does it imply that either men or women have to sublimate to coexist? (women have historically sublimated their various needs to fit cultural expectations until the womens' movement set them free). Cause that is bull****! We have to stop the GOP from re-sublimating women in the name of FREEDOM for men to be hierarchical & immature.

April 5, 2012

I know. And since Obama is living in reality, he cannot possibly make speeches about living in

a post racial world. So all those racists conservatives will see themselves as morally superior to him because they don't see race and Obama does. The GOP will box Obama in that way.

April 5, 2012

Ted Nugent on Piers Morgan re: Trayvon Martin case. People like me don't see color but let's

not forget about all the other black men who die needlessly. (I'm paraphrasing)

April 4, 2012

What theatre! Coordinated acting no doubt. Stagemanaged events are how psychopaths roll!

Watch out for great emotive (fill in emotion GOP displayes here)

Definition

Emotive:

1.Arousing or able to arouse intense feeling.
2.Expressing a person's feelings rather than being neutrally or objectively descriptive.

April 4, 2012

I wondered that too. I mean if Zimmerman was just holding Trayvon by gun Trayvon would have been

saying "okay, okay, you got me", not "help, help, help". He was reaching out to a third party - anyone - to help him.

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