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rdean
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Imagine religious extremists wanted to take down this country. How would they do it? What would be the most effective way?
First, divide the country along racial lines. Make one political party one race and the other one everyone else.
Then relentlessly convince your base that government is out to get you so they shrink it so small that it's not effective in governing.
Pit the most extreme groups against each other. For instance, abolish minimum wage so the poor need multiple jobs just to eat and cut taxes for the top 10% and then tell everyone that will narrow the wage gap. If the brainwashing has worked, they won't even question how ridiculous that is.
Try to keep everyone from health care. The will make people use the emergency room for primary care which will bankrupt the middle class.
Redistribute the wealth to the top 10% and then insist that anyone who questions such a policy has fallen into "class envy".
Take away a woman's right to choose, force her to have a baby and then refuse to help either the woman or the baby in any way. That will create a generation of future criminals.
Target minorities. One after another.
Deregulate big business.
Once the economy starts to tank, start a war in a foreign land. Make them a threat. Convince the people that it was necessary even though you can't say why. This will create even more debt putting enormous pressure on the fragile economy. And it will destabilize an entire part of the world.
Don't fund education.
Don't rebuild the country.
Don't help the poor or veterans.
Then, if someone from the other party becomes president, blame everything on them.
First, divide the country along racial lines. Make one political party one race and the other one everyone else.
Then relentlessly convince your base that government is out to get you so they shrink it so small that it's not effective in governing.
Pit the most extreme groups against each other. For instance, abolish minimum wage so the poor need multiple jobs just to eat and cut taxes for the top 10% and then tell everyone that will narrow the wage gap. If the brainwashing has worked, they won't even question how ridiculous that is.
Try to keep everyone from health care. The will make people use the emergency room for primary care which will bankrupt the middle class.
Redistribute the wealth to the top 10% and then insist that anyone who questions such a policy has fallen into "class envy".
Take away a woman's right to choose, force her to have a baby and then refuse to help either the woman or the baby in any way. That will create a generation of future criminals.
Target minorities. One after another.
Deregulate big business.
Once the economy starts to tank, start a war in a foreign land. Make them a threat. Convince the people that it was necessary even though you can't say why. This will create even more debt putting enormous pressure on the fragile economy. And it will destabilize an entire part of the world.
Don't fund education.
Don't rebuild the country.
Don't help the poor or veterans.
Then, if someone from the other party becomes president, blame everything on them.
