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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:10 PM Original message |
How did insanity in America become "normal." |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. K&R |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. The US has had that edge, hard edge, of |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
3. Other countries of the world think that it is due to being a relatively new country? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Add indentured servants |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. It started when Reagan closed mental hospitals and put the crazies out on the street |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. Polarization... There's an app for that. nt |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Link |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Kinda! |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:42 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Should have learned by now |
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oswaldactedalone (284 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. Greed, racism, and the farce that is American Christianity |
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jotsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
10. A beautiful plea Cyrano. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
11. Soma = TOO MUCH TV, INTERNET, AND DISTRACTION. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 04:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
29. Took me a while to recall that Soma was the brain-deadening |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
12. "Nobody expected the American Inquisition" |
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hendo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. The answer is: The 24-hour news cycle |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 10:29 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Yep, hendo. I can't disagree. |
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hendo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:38 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Meh, the republicans own Fox, |
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BuelahWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 10:03 AM Response to Reply #14 |
24. Yes, 24 hour news + death of the Fairness Doctrine |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
16. go to MSM.com |
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jobendorfer (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. a Swiss perspective |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:45 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. I talked to a Swede in SE Asia once |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 06:30 PM Response to Reply #17 |
40. Good quote from Jung--and very timely. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
18. When we quit marginalizing religious fanatics |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
20. TV and radio news propaganda n/t |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
22. The range of legitimate political thought in this country is greater than corporate far-right to |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 05:27 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. I think this is true. |
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hamsterjill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
23. Wow! Have you been reading my mind???!!! |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
25. This is really out there but it has stuck with me all these years. |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 01:18 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. LOL My mom has Fate magazines all the way back to the 50s. I never |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
26. It's because people take the teevee way too seriously. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 03:37 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Sorry to disagree, but it's because people don't take the dangers of |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
30. 8 years with a Shrub for President. People now think that he was normal, not an idiot. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 04:43 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Bush/Cheney were a cancer on our society. |
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Scruffy1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
33. I don't buy this narrative |
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RealisticDem44 (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
34. Because of moral and ethical relativism |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
35. put it on teevee and it's 'reality' |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
36. Friday, August 29, 2008 ... |
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RealisticDem44 (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 06:03 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. She's not merely a moron.... |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 06:06 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Agreed. And welcome to DU! |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 09:39 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. A moronic psychopath with charisma (for the MILFers, anyway). She may epitomize the problem now |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
39. KnR.... :o)...lets do it...vote BLUE |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
42. Insanity = Stupidity + Fear. |
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