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applegrove

(132,449 posts) Fri Dec 21, 2012, 09:21 PM Dec 2012

You know, when you are afraid your empathy for others goes down. You just care about [View all]

you and your your family. I know. I was stalked for years. Maybe all this GOP/NRA push is not just to sell guns but to sell fear, reducing empathy across the nation. So they can get people to vote against helping their neighbours or the poor.

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You know, when you are afraid your empathy for others goes down. You just care about [View all] applegrove Dec 2012 OP

I think you have a valid point. n/t arthritisR_US Dec 2012 #1

They absolutely want to keep us afraid TDale313 Dec 2012 #2

Oh yeah. And lack of health care too. All of it to make people less applegrove Dec 2012 #3

Yep. And all of this... TDale313 Dec 2012 #4

And to get regular folk in the USA to vote against helping out each other and the poor. applegrove Dec 2012 #5

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