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applegrove

(118,677 posts) Sat Jan 30, 2021, 06:41 PM Jan 2021

The Rich GOP say they want freedom, so how is showing fealty to Trump [View all]

and his mob freedom? It breaks one's spirit. No extra length of lazy river in the backyard pool renovation is going to mitigate that they are no longer masters of their own domains. People who would do anything for power don't really have agency anymore. They are peons. Corruption works like that. You end up intertwined, not free and a bit more dead inside because they know they kissed the ring of someone they don't respect.

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The Rich GOP say they want freedom, so how is showing fealty to Trump [View all] applegrove Jan 2021 OP

For rich GOP, freedom means freedom from regulation and taxes. hedda_foil Jan 2021 #1

But they are now prisoners of corruption. applegrove Jan 2021 #2

Only if they are charged and convicted. Otherwise, corruption is just good business. hedda_foil Jan 2021 #3

Even arrests and convictions don't matter if Trumpy POTUSs and governors sell pardons RockRaven Jan 2021 #6

Too true. hedda_foil Jan 2021 #7

If you are rich enough, corruption is freeing. You buy favors and influence because the money is RockRaven Jan 2021 #4

Then the middle class is gone and the only way for some poor to be able to applegrove Jan 2021 #5

That's why they're all in for facism to control the wild west without bothering them. hedda_foil Jan 2021 #8

I think this is happening worldwide too. Baked Potato Jan 2021 #10

corruption is the alternative to following rules and procedures DBoon Jan 2021 #12

They talk of freedom because it gets them in the front door of Baked Potato Jan 2021 #9

freedom to do what they want... stillcool Jan 2021 #11

"freedom, in the slogans of the strong..... rampartc Jan 2021 #13

From Qanuts to See ee ohhs, few are truly free sanatanadharma Jan 2021 #14

They've bastardized Jamaal510 Jan 2021 #15