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In reply to the discussion: "Baby, You're a Rich Man" [View all]PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)because of Sanders, Warren, and many others, people are waking up and saying, "Hey, wait a minute. I pay a lot of taxes. Why do I not have single-payer healthcare? How come people are talking about how Social Security is going broke? I need that. Why are we outspending the rest of the nations on earth on 'defense' when we can already destroy this world a hundred times over? How come we have to spend SO MUCH on national security? And why do we need the NSA anyway? We have the CIA, ATF, DEA, Secret Service, and FBI, plus the elite military units. Isn't that a bit of overkill?"
And, you know, if enough people start thinking and talking this way, and pressuring their legislators to vote this way at local, state and federal levels, then we will have a better world. Or at least one more pleasant for everyone to live in.