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applegrove

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Mon Dec 7, 2015, 12:13 AM Dec 2015

America Is Sitting On A Powder Keg [View all]

America Is Sitting On A Powder Keg

by Egberto Willies at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/6/1456404/-America-is-sitting-on-a-powder-keg

"SNIP............

America is currently sitting on a powder keg, and it’s filled with a substance much more potent than gun powder. The destruction effected by a normal powder keg is localized and can be contained. A powder keg filled with an intangible substance isn't containable.

What is that intangible substance? Division, sewn with hate and violence.

Who is filling this powder keg? The answer is there for everyone to see: America’s right wing leaders are the verifiable culprits. No more false equivalencies. It’s time the right wing’s actions are not only called out, but tackled head-on.

First, it’s necessary to understand the pathology of the right wing’s leaders. Not only are they very intelligent, but they know exactly what they’re doing. They understand that the policies they support are anathema to a society with a vibrant middle-class. They know that an educated populace is a clear and present danger to their existence. They know that an educated population will find their existence untenable. But they also know that one's primitive fear sensors, those sensors meant to maintain life itself, are much more powerful than educated and calculated logic. Hence, the right wing’s modus operandi.



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America Is Sitting On A Powder Keg [View all] applegrove Dec 2015 OP
when you open your doors, generously bring people in from all over the world patsimp Dec 2015 #1
And you don't think that inequality in the Middle East doesn't affect the desire to die in a death applegrove Dec 2015 #2
the people who did the killing in Paris, Boston, and California were not from the middle east. patsimp Dec 2015 #4
But Farook told his father he hated Israel and wanted ISIS to win. Point is there is a hunger out applegrove Dec 2015 #6
the hate farooq had for Israel is not defensible in any fashion patsimp Dec 2015 #12
I'm not defending him. I'm trying not to make it worse than it already is. Which you are doing. applegrove Dec 2015 #13
No i'm actually pointing out cold hard reality and hoping to save innocent patsimp Dec 2015 #17
I don't want people slaughtered for any reason. Trump will insite some Republicans to kill. He will applegrove Dec 2015 #18
A map of mass shootings..... CanadianComrade Dec 2015 #5
Much as has happened to Dylan Roof and Robert Dear. LanternWaste Dec 2015 #16
Yup. Divide & Conquer seem to be 2naSalit Dec 2015 #3
Of course. rusty quoin Dec 2015 #7
We know. Aerows Dec 2015 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Marty McGraw Dec 2015 #9
. . . hifiguy Dec 2015 #15
Not everything is the right wing's fault Democat Dec 2015 #10
You have to ask who the right wing are emulating. They are applegrove Dec 2015 #11
"...and it’s filled with a substance much more potent than gun powder." Iggo Dec 2015 #14
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