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anti-republocrat's avatar

The critical movement has not been on the horizontal left-right progress vs regress scale. It's been on the vertical authoritarian scale.

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Riff McClavin's avatar

The growing numbers of people who see China as a problem only indicates how tirelessly the weathervane of NatSec propaganda has been directing them there.

The exact same thing happened 20 years ago when pre-existing plans for regime change in the Middle East saw an opportunity for enactment in the wake of 9/11. To this day embarrassingly high numbers of Americans believe that Saddam had something to do with it. Hundreds of thousands of dead civilians? Oh yeah, that happened, too.

Problems which should be solved around a conference table are treated as political, economic, and media opportunities for aggression because currently that's where the money and power dictates it be placed.

Of course, once hundreds of thousands are dead, and political and monetary fortunes have been made, the conference table finally finds its place as a peace treaty propaganda prop for the next "unavoidable" conflict.

Step one: stop voting for these people.

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