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JennSH from NC's avatar

Could someone please tell me how any organization populated by former trump officials be considered a think tank?

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Mike S's avatar

"If the Democrats do not succeed in passing a voting rights law, we can expect America to become a one-party state that, at best, will look much like the American South did between 1876 and 1964."

It is interesting to me that the party of Reagan, Bush I, "W" and Trump, which routinely attracts people who proclaim to be ethical and religious, will soon be in power due entirely to cheating while simultaneously claiming others are cheating. All of which is one more lie from Republicans.

Having lived to watch Reagan tell his lies about "cutting spending" and "welfare queens" and even buying into those lies in 1980, then literally watching the debt balloon completely out of control, relative to the pay down on the WW II debt that preceded Reagan and old man Bush, I cannot believe anyone with access to the internet still believes anything a Republican would say about anything at all.

The one takeaway I have learned about Republicans is that their main ethic and action is:

BEFORE TELLING THE TRUTH, GIVE LYING A CHANCE.

Unfortunately, in the human population, lying does seem to work quite well as a strategy. In fact, it seems that Christians, and people of high faith, already trained in believing that for which there is no evidence, are particularly susceptible to lies.

I would say all of this is fascinating. But, I find it all quite disappointing.

Today, it is really possible to sort out a lie from reality in a few minutes with access to google and by staying off Facebook. I simply cannot understand the attraction of lies.

https://zfacts.com/national-debt/

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