this gutting, BTW, is strategic and intentional and functions as part of the normal criminal grift structure.

If i con you into doing something stupid or harmful to yourself, you are less likely to report your victimization because it makes you "look stupid." This is factored>>

into every con. Shame and embarrassment prevent MANY victims form even admitting to themselves they were taken. This is the @GOP playbook vid a vis, their "base."

Ignorant people are presented with shiny objects- faith, race, gender, choice issues- that don't impact their lives>

and then make serious, long-lasting, deeply harmful -SELF harmful- choices based upon wanting to "own the libs" or other such nonsense. These victims become the best defenders of the con artists because>>

once you've PROVEN the detrimental behavior, rather than admit they've been taken -AGAIN– it's easier to blame FAKE NEWS or FEMINAZIS or the GAY AGENDA for the troubles caused by their "friends" who pretend to be like them and of them.>>

this has been weaponize4d to its extreme by so-called POPULIST candidates on both sides but never so successfully as the @GOP using the social wedges they've enjoyed. TELEVANGELIST preachers also employ this methodology to make their pockets fat>>

But none of it would work if you were well educated in the basic structures of how our society was designed to work. Yes, you could even maintain your personal bigotries, without harm to yourself or others, while making public or group decisions that didn't screw you over. AGAIN>

which is why the @GOP hates the Public School system and why you've been rooked by "Magnet" and "Charter" schools. To keep you ignorant. Ignorance is often fatal but it need not be. There's no shame attached to not knowing things. Most of us don't know most things. >>

But real harm comes to you when you vote from your "heart" and not from you head. You can't vote from your head if you don't know why people are doing what they do and you'll accept any promise made by people who know they can't possibly bring them about.>>

Our system was designed by and for people who expected a working knowledge of government and its people from the voting public. Public schools are designed to give EVERY citizen an equalizer in terms of class access to the knowledge base of Western society. >>

How do you know your friends from your enemies? Not by what they promise, not by what they SAY but by what they build and what they destroy.But you can't cut through the BS if you don't have the tools. As I said, ignorance need not be a fatal illness. >>

The @GOP has worked hard to keep you sick. The cure is simple. Your life and our lives depend on putting away the defensiveness and shame at being manipulated and duped. Ignorance is absolutely not bliss. In the words of the prophet, KRS-1,"You MUST learn."

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