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applegrove's JournalThe word "socialism"will mean nothing bad if they keep using it for things that have 70%
support amongst the American people.
I guess Republicans want to do it fast so it will go through the courts and,
with the variety of republican states voting suppression tactics presented to the courts, they can see what will make it through the Supreme court and be bullet proof to Democratic challenges by the elections. 
Shows you the state the US is in when a "fighter" is hired for domestic issues
not foreign ones. Brilliant move. The Trumpers and GOP are at war with democracy. Democracy needs to fight back with great policy.
So much news it out there. It means when some GOPer says something outragious it does
not get to all the independents. Neither will a retraction track. We are all looking at different baskets of news. We don't have a shared reality anymore. And people watch fox and get fooled.
Yes but 1/3 of Germans watched another 1/3 of Germans kill the other
third in the 20s, 30s and 40s. Germans have more engineers, some of the smartest people in a country, per capita than anyone else in the world these days. Fully two thirds of Germans fell for their assigned roles in the war crimes of the Nazis. For sure most were threatened with violence. That is just one tool in the box of psychopaths. It was a cult of personality.
Actually psychopathy works on those who are smart. They say dazzleling
with details. Look at how long Democrats fought debt because the republicans came up with trickle down. It does not work on people who are bad at language and more visual than language based (unless the leader of the cult is a dyslexic and surrounded by psychopaths as dyslexics think in big pictures and paint pictures - a populist malevolent dyslexic like Trump). I read a book on the topic once and there was the description of a psychopath trying something on a policeman. The policeman said "Don't try that with me. That stuff only works on smart people and i'm not smart". Think about it. Those who live in a world of concrete visual thinking are not as vulnerable to flights of fancy as someone in the upper echelons of religious or political power, where psychopath are drawn to, and where following a faction or following religion, human fictions, is more important than the concrete. These days more people are attuned to human fictions as humans learn one or another from birth, even people who would normally be concrete, so a bigger portion of the population is vulnerable to psychopaths than in the days before the enlightenment. Humans are becoming more abstract. My grandmother grew up the daughter of a hard rock miner. Her stories were all about things that had happened in people's lives: inflection points. She had an advanced degree in nursing and read, but not philosophy in any way. She loved the community of her churches but did not talk about religion..she acted out her faith by walking the walk. She voted for the New Democratic Party until she died at 103. I learnt from her the concrete thinking and though i can be manipulated i was never fooled into going out with guys who had no business being interested in me, unfortunately in some cases, very fortunate in others. I have always been happiest alone. Democracies enable free thinking and dyslexics populists leaders - for good (Teddy Roosevelt) and for bad (Trump). Especially with a corrupted dyslexic leading and getting advice from Bannon and Roger Stone. Added to this good jobs taken away from white men and they start voting emotions rather than reason due to financial anxiety. It is the opposite of democracy, where incomes tended to rise, and makes them more vulnerable to appeals to white supremacy. In the past when people lived with financial anxiety they were yoked in some way, by class or by no democracy. Now it is the wild west with no western land available to white people to improve their lot. IMHO It depends on the psychopath. Are they appealing to the power and vanity of the elite? Or is it riches that might appeal to someone that has none. Are they stirring up scapegoating to those in distress because the world is changing? Everyone has a blind spot in the end because we have emotions.
Whitewashing. The Republican party and the people behind QAnon are
syncing up. They are talking. They've divided the spoils.
Krugman, I think, said big red states like Florida and Texas get their funds
from sales tax. NY and California from white collar income taxes. The states that rely on sales taxes are going to be in trouble as white collar jobs kept going from home during covid while sales tanked.
I add that it really will be the Feds funding infrastructure in those sales tax states. When Stephen Harper did stimulous spending during the financial crisis (canada did not have a subprime meltdown due to adequate banking regulations but was effected by the world wide recession, Harper a conservative knew keynesian spending was the cure as he talked trickle down but didn't want the economy to tank like the republicans did with Obama by demanding austerity). He put a federal government sign up announcing it was the federal government funding the infrastructure at every construction site so he would get the credit. I hope Biden does the same.
I bet the ones who conceived of spreading the anti vax meme to include MAGAs and Covid
had the idea that automation was going to make a lot of workers redundant so why not. 
I mean Trump pulled out of WHO during the pandemic. Who does that? Trump refused to sign up the USA in supporting COVAX too.
"SNIP.......
Wikipedia:
COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access, abbreviated as COVAX, is a global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines led by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and others. It is one of the three pillars of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, an initiative begun in April 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Commission, and the government of France as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. COVAX aims to coordinate international resources to enable the equitable access of COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments, and COVID-19 vaccines.[1]
.....SNIP"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVAX
Business and Industry would know this. They do endless studies on
productivity. They must see a benefit in powerlessness... like not voting or something like that.
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