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KY_EnviroGuy

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5. And, they repeatedly get away with it because....

Reply to Scarsdale (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 10, 2019, 07:31 AM

Jun 2019

they have virtually unlimited funds available to them to keep the vast right-wing machine oiled and running forever. Any Rethugs that get caught are spit out of the machine in disgrace and replaced with fresh young faces looking to make a buck.

If our system was fair and just, Republicans would have been relegated to the margins after Nixon fell.

But then came Rupert Murdoch and friends, and Citizens United........

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