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The "narrative" should be that government employees are "public servants" on the citizens payroll. Constitutionally, American citizens individually and collectively are the bosses of our government employees. The President is simply the leader of our servants—not our boss. Why should we admire, revere, and pay fealty to people who lead extravagant lives on our taxes? Members of congress work 3 days a week, have months of paid vacation ("recesses"), are treated as celebrities at extravagant dinners, sign autographs, and receive huge amounts of "donations" (bribes) to do the bidding of the super rich. This is "democracy"? "Washington is Hollywood for ugly people." They're ugly not only in their appearance, but in their sociopathic domestic and foreign policy.

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For those not busy waving their flags and Bibles, please ponder the fact that the very first amendment the founders passed -- even more fundamental to their concept of a working republic than the right to self-defence -- was the freedom of speech and of the press. Any person not actively opposing the current wave of government-endorsed censorship and violence can in no way deem themselves a patriot.

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Cuba with its universal health care and dentistry, free education up to University level really needs 'intervention' from the US and then it can be a truly free democratic capitalistic island just like Haiti.

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"The US government is without exception the single most corrupt and destructive force on this planet." Indeed. It's so incorrigibly corrupt that corruption has been legalized!

"Saying your economic model is superior to a socialist nation's because you were able to use economic warfare to impoverish that nation is like saying your moral philosophy is better than your neighbor's because you beat the shit out of him." Priceless!

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"I trust the wisdom of the collective to sort out what's true infinitely more than I trust the wisdom of the US government and Silicon Valley plutocrats to do it.

Facts. Bravo on succinctly getting to the heart of the matter.

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If you were to offer me mashed potatoes and it was somehow made clear from the way you offered them that in your mind I don't really have any right to say "no thanks", I might not want them even though I actually like mashed potatoes and am not at all "anti-mashed potatoes".

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Ikr? Those Twitter leftie bitches and the sell out "journalists" think that they will never be next be because they kiss the boot. Now we see how it happens..

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