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5. creating hardship and grievance is how the Republicans stay in power

Fri Sep 15, 2023, 01:50 PM

Sep 2023

They have to stoke the disaffection of their existing voters to keep them loyal, and create new hardships to recruit tomorrow's RW constituency.

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income-driven repayment is bedrock sanity bucolic_frolic Sep 2023 #2

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Those bastards hate anybody with a functioning brain. GreenWave Sep 2023 #4