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In reply to the discussion: Ed Norton 🧵: I'm no political pundit but I grew up w a dad who was a federal prosecutor & he taught [View all]IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)99. I have experienced such people in my life.
But in the past I have always found a way to rationalize it and keep my basic premise that people are naturally good. After four years of seeing what has been done to our country and seeing what can happen when unscrupulous people get in power, I can no longer keep that belief. You can call it growing up or you can call it jaded, I don't know. I do know I no longer see the world through the same prism.
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Ed Norton 🧵: I'm no political pundit but I grew up w a dad who was a federal prosecutor & he taught [View all]
soothsayer
Nov 2020
OP
His mom taught at my rival high school and lots of my friends that had her, knew him.
PunkinPi
Nov 2020
#54
+1. I wonder if Trump will threaten to start a war, that Biden has to handle, for such consessions.
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2020
#55
Thank you for posting this! Norton's theory makes perfect sense in light of the recent news story
LaMouffette
Nov 2020
#3
Sound like perhaps you are coming to the realization that I have come to in these past few years
IsItJustMe
Nov 2020
#101
We are living in a world of programming, this is for sure and it is extremely hard to be truly open
IsItJustMe
Nov 2020
#103
Small loan: your problem. Big loan: bank's problem. How many mortgages foreclosed to pay tRump?
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2020
#24
Dead center shot. He called it tRump is stalling to get a deal and at least destroy the evidence.
usaf-vet
Nov 2020
#32