[Peace-discuss] What we're up against

Thu Dec 14 15:41:35 UTC 2017

A good way to get a neolib and neocon Republican (running as a Democrat) elected to a Senate seat is to be sure his opponent is an outrageous troglodyte.

It worked “in the case of Alabama."

> On Dec 14, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> In the case of Alabama, it sure as hell is. A state with such extreme poverty, that the UN compared conditions in Alabama to that of many nations in sub saharan African villages. 
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>> On Dec 14, 2017, at 06:58, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>> https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/14/inequality-is-not-inevitable-but-the-us-experiment-is-a-recipe-for-divergence <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Finequality%2F2017%2Fdec%2F14%2Finequality-is-not-inevitable-but-the-us-experiment-is-a-recipe-for-divergence&data=02%7C01%7C%7Caeb766a77e2f47b2a68208d543033b1f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636488603511217150&sdata=5nGgMqjZ9MibNWwTeDXlb%2BrBmZXxlBL15uUN0sMBXTI%3D&reserved=0>
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>> It’s not a victory to elect Democrats instead of Republicans.
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>> "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” [Chomsky]
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