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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:49 AM, E.Wayne Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ewj@pigs.ag">ewj@pigs.ag</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">John, </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I think you are pulling my leg but I'll bite.</font></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Not at all. I think anyone who would respect Sarah Palin and/or Dubya Jr., identify with them, and vote for such characters, is just plain stupid. Stupid people are intimidated by smart people, and feel safe around people who are as stupid as themselves, even if they are being led over a precipice.</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Thomas Jefferson wrote regarding Shay's Rebellion:</font></div>
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<div>"...a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. </div>
<div>The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."</div></div></blockquote>
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<div>*yawn* You and Carl both have your favorite little quotations that you trot out all the time, but they're usually pretty irrelevant. They're full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Who exactly is refreshing the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants? Sarah Palin and Dubya Jr.? Surely you jest.</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">There is a great mass of people in the USA who feel that their government is not responsive to them and takes</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">their tax money and spends it for things they dont want. </font></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Yes, yes, yes. And if that "great mass of people" paid no federal taxes whatsoever, they'd spend most of their newly-found surplus on toys and junk food, be as broke as before, and want the government to help them out when they got in financial trouble.</div>
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<div>Plus they're too stupid to realize that, even as their (mostly Republican) politicians are telling them how they're in favor of "smaller government", the very same politicians are in fact increasing the size and complexity of government and taking MORE of their tax dollars. Ronnie Reagan, the "Great Communicator", was a prime example.</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">They are the the masses of America and they perceive that</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">the country is run by elite and immoral people who want to teach queer-ism and candy-ass Hillary-ism in their schools. Again I think that Sarah comes off as being as fake as a 3 -dollar bill clinton but many of those people think that Sarah is like them. </font></div>
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<div>Precisely. And the characteristic they most share is STUPIDITY.</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hillary is not like them. Obama is not like them, Obama is not only black but he's a mulatto and an uppity one at that.</font></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Now there's a catchy phrase. I need add no commentary to that.</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">These people dont generally have good information.</font></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Precisely.</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> They arent violent by nature</font></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Oh? Sez who? </div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">but if they had the full scoop, then the elite bastards had sure enough better buy handguns.</font></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Why? The "great masses of people" aren't violent by nature, right?</div>
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<div>Urg.</div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><b>From:</b> <a title="jbw292002@gmail.com" href="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com" target="_blank">John W.</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="ewj@pigs.ag" href="mailto:ewj@pigs.ag" target="_blank">E.Wayne Johnson</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">Peace Discuss</a> </div></div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 01, 2010 3:50 PM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] ron paul - we can do better with peace</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:38 PM, E.Wayne Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ewj@pigs.ag" target="_blank">ewj@pigs.ag</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I heard Sarah Palin give her speech in St; Paul in 2008 and I dont like her much at all. But people relate to her because they think that she is "one of us" (wrong or right). Actually W had the same sort of appeal. Whether she or W or any of the other cartoon characters are real people or just electrons in a machine is irrelevant. The people identify with the character just like the kids relate to Mighty Mouse, Mickey Mouse, or XiYangYang. Ideology is bunk. Manipulation of the masses is the only thing that matters.</font></div>
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<div>And what, pray, is the characteristic in Sarah Palin and Dubya Jr. that causes "people" to relate to them, to think that they are "one of us"? What are the "people" identifying with?</div>
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