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When ALL You Hear Are Lies, You Think It HAS to Be Truth: Money Madness and the Rise of “Obvious Truths” … Around Taxes, the Wealthy, Job Creation, Democrats, Republicans, Generations, Your Life, and You

Posted on August 23, 2012 by sillymickel

Foolin’ the People … About Money, About “Us” (The 1%), About Taxes, About Job Creation, About Democrats, About Republicans, About Generations, About Your Life, About You: Choose the Red Pill Culture War, Class War, Chapter Fifteen: Money Madness Tax the … Continue reading →

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How the 1% Diluted the Progressive Movement by Slandering Boomers to Foster Culture War Between Them and Gen Xers and to Distract from Their Own Looting … Hippies, Yippies, Yuppies

Posted on June 27, 2012 by sillymickel

Money Madness … Foolin’ the People About Money, Part Six: The Yuppies Were Hardly Boomers … But This Idea Supports a Right-Wing Agenda by Pitting Progressives Against Each Other … Try the Red Pill Instead Obvious “Truths”: Yuppies are former … Continue reading →

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Foolin’ the People About Money, Part 1: Tax the Wealthy, You’re Taxing Me … Money Madness

Posted on June 10, 2012 by sillymickel

Money Madness … Foolin’ the People About Money, Part One: Obvious “Truths”—Fiscally Responsible Republicans and Tax and Spend Democrats Obvious “Truths”: Tax the wealthy, you’re taxing me. Democrats tax and spend, they bust the budget, balloon the National Debt. Republicans … Continue reading →

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21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 17: Hunger Games: Prenatal Oxygen Hunger and Its Political Imprints – Greed, Oppression, Sycophancy, Class War, Revolution

Posted on June 7, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Seventeen: Fetal Malnutrition and Politics: Prenatal Roots of Greed, Sycophancy, Class War, and Revolution Prenatal Roots of War In a previous section I mentioned how our human tendency to warring has its roots in the … Continue reading →

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Let’s “Get Real” Even as We Continue to #Occupy … The Middle Class needs to look at its aiding and abetting the forces of fascism, even as it decries them

Posted on October 8, 2011 by sillymickel

The Middle Class has been aiding the repression. It is time for The Awakening. Let’s clear our own consciences as we continue to #occupy People think that it is better economically than it is and that there are jobs to … Continue reading →