When you watch the major networks, you get the message, loud and clear, 24/7/365, that there are only two parties and that all reality must fit--if you want to fit into "acceptable society" and engage in "legitimate discourse"--into one camp or the other. Anything that doesn't agree with official party narratives is either radical or "conspiratorial."
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Occasionally though, our reality providers have no choice but to give us positions that clearly overlap, even while they still try to maintain the facade of "differences" and "dichotomy of opinion." We often see this when it comes to foreign policy--whenever the real owners of our polity and public discourse decide they want to invade some new third-world dumpster country that has oil.
The Democrats will say something like, "We should bomb the heck out of them, because their leader is evil and his people can not survive without our bombs. But never, ever...never, never..must we allow 'boots on the ground'." The Republicans will say something like "We should bomb the heck out of them, and we must send in troops to 'rebuild the peace and to install democracy'. We can only do this with massive, overwhelming force and plenty of 'shock and awe' or their people will suffer."
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If someone (like me, for instance) should raise his hand and say something like..."Uh, what are common Americans going there to die for, AT ALL?"...or... "What is the threat to Americans from this J.V. military power with J.V. armed forces and J.V. technology?" ...I will immediately be shouted down and called a "non supporter of the troops," "disloyal," a "conspiracy theorist, "or even "anti-Semitic."
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But there are a few other egregious public policies where there is no difference between liberal and conservative, where the rest of us must pay attention and be alarmed. Some of these include:
The unquestionable government story about major events that have taken away American rights...like JFK's death, The Vietnam War, 911, Sandy Hoax, and all the other obvious "crisis actored-up" "mass shootings."
The unquestionable efficacy of vaccines, and SOON morphed into: The unquestionable wisdom of making them mandatory.
Global warming, global cooling, climate change, and any other weather-related excuse for seizing more freedoms and jacking taxes.
The fact that the skies have these giant long, thin cloud banks made by airplanes, and that they have always been there, and that there is nothing to worry about.
The LBGTQWTFDHLMNDOCPS community is honest, deserving of all types of possible mollycoddling and genuflection, and has no hidden agenda(s.)
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Again, when these "parties" and their parroters in the MSM agree on the major substance of ANYTHING you can almost always bet THE FIX IS IN, and you should immediately begin looking for "the rest of the story" ...aka THE TRUTH.
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This is so true, sometimes these parties are so aligned on things were you would expect them to be divided - pretty obvious...
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Yep...they leave "tells" all the time, if you know what to look for.
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Also if you speak the truth about the evils of government in a group you get both the right and the left agree that you're crazy and off your rocker.
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Yep.
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