The Left is doing it wrong.

We need to stop calling it the green New Deal; and call it the Patriot Power Act.

We’re not trying to go green or “Woke”. No! We’re making ’Merca energy independent! We’ll stop importing oil from the tourist countries! And be energy self sufficient!

—BRANDING!!

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    Or…stop defining everything as left/right and make things for people. Stop the divide, it’s what ‘they’ want.

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      Yes. I was amazed that anyone was able to make a vaccine political.

      And some of the other kookiness from Qanon and similar really makes me wonder about the mental health of the general public.

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        I was in Barnes and noble today and there’s a whole bookshelf in the new non-fiction section from a bunch of conservative personalities with crazy books about trusting Q, knowing how to believe in Q, how Biden has ruined America but trump will return and save us, all sorts of delusional shit.

        The mental capacity of the general public has always been poor because there are some extremely dumb and gullible skewing it from just basic people, these grifters selling these delusional books and ideas is what’s making this worse. Being allowed to call your political opponents demons and saying your leaders are all chosen by god on high should be banned in political discourse

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        It’s when I started looking for answers on mass psychosis. I’m still unclear on the how.

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            It’s not just Russia. Governments propagandize their own, including Western ones. Recall Snowden, Assange, Manning, and with the help of “reputable” news. False flags. I think now we’re just to the point where any sane person doubts most of what they hear and should doubt most of what they see. But we crave order and cling to the narrative that seems to make the most sense to our own minds’ peculiarities. Some are certainly closer to true than others but there are a lot of politicians throwing rocks and hiding hands. As I said elsewhere: absolutely everything is based on money and appearances.

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              The media is full of all types of “news” but people don’t seek out and objectively analyze truth, they seek “news” and “science” that fits their preconceived notions and parade it around as truth.

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      Well the unfortunate part of that is it isn’t working and a solid 30% of the population will just call you ‘woke’ and ignore you for saying it.

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      Stop the divide, it’s what ‘they’ want.

      You’re sending some conflicting signals, my Mac

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        Companies are not people, so no…I’m not.

        Political agendas are also not human, so again I’m still not.

        You’re one of those that love to cause divide.

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      That sounds nice but, much like the name for these bills, it’s not reality.