The Right’s New Scam
Posted by Michelle Moquin on April 17th, 2014
Good morning!
Ann: You inspired me the other day. The LSOS’s are still out there going strong. This one from The New Republic is for you.
The Right’s New Scam: Feigning Anger on Behalf of People They Encouraged to Skip Obamacare
Beginning last summer, and continuing unabated until a few weeks ago, conservatives undertook a variety of efforts (both subtle and explicit) to discourage people, particularly young people, from enrolling in ACA-compliant health plans.
The idea was to deny state-based insurance markets critical mass, and sound risk pools, and send them into actuarial death spirals. In almost every instance, conservatives were appealing to strangers to undertake considerable personal risk in service of dubious ideological principles.
Though these efforts failed to achieve the larger goal, they almost certainly succeeded at convincing some people to skip Obamacare. And when confronted about the recklessness of their strategy, the most unscrupulous conservatives would say, No biggie! Obamacare allows people to enroll after they get sick or injured. So there’s no risk at all.
This was a lie. And if it weren’t such a dangerous lie, I’d be amused to find that conservatives now want you to be outraged about the fact that the Affordable Care Act creates limited open-enrollment periods each year to prohibit precisely that kind of free riding.
There is yet another ObamaCare surprise waiting for consumers: from now until the next open enrollment at the end of this year, most people will simply not be able to buy any health insurance at all, even outside the exchanges.
“It’s all closed down. You cannot buy a policy that is a qualified policy for the purpose of the ACA (the Affordable Care Act) until next year on January 1,” says John DiVito, president of Flexbenefit which has 2,500 brokers.
John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas adds, “People are not going to be able to buy individual and family policies, and that’s part of ObamaCare. And what makes it so surprising is the whole point of ObamaCare was to encourage people to get insurance, and now the market has been completely closed down for the next seven months.”
That means that with few exceptions, tens of millions of people will be locked out of the health insurance market for the rest of this year.
For those of you just tuning in, an open-enrollment period is an obscure policy toolone of the most common ways of creating access to health benefits without also creating an incentive for people to pocket their premium dollars until they actually experience medical problems. It is one of the cornerstones of the employer-based insurance system, of Medicare Advantage, and of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit. Conservatives are conspicuously silent about those open-enrollment periods.
Goodman’s correct to note that time-limited enrollment leave millions locked out of the insurance system each year. But that’s not really much different from the old system, which allowed people to apply for insurance whenever they wanted, but discriminated against people who had been uninsured for long stretches of time, and either would deny coverage to individuals who signed up after experiencing catastrophic medical events, or wouldn’t cover expenses incurred prior to enrollment.
The end of open-enrollment each year is one of the few sticks in ACA’s broader incentive structure. It partly explains the late-March enrollment surge. But the conservatives attacking it now weren’t stricken by the epiphany that their recent efforts to discourage enrollment were morally reprehensible. If so, they’d acknowledge that the best way to eliminate open enrollment is to establish a universal benefit, like Medicare-for-all, that covers everyone without insurance automatically. No, now that enrollment is closed, they’re clamoring to flood the existing insurance markets with high-cost beneficiaries and send premiums skyward. Failing that, they want the people who didn’t enroll—including those who didn’t enroll on the advice of ACA opponents—to be angry at Obamacare for leaving them out in the cold. In a more sane country, everyone would be pulling in the same direction, so that the end of open-enrollment didn’t leave as many people stuck with nothing for months on end. But we don’t live in a country like that. We’re stuck with a system in which one of the two major political movements spends the months before open enrollment trying to discourage as many people from signing up as possible, and the months after complaining that all these people don’t have access to insurance.
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April 17th, 2014 at 3:35 pm
Fluoride: The Toxin So Dangerous – Even CDC Now Warns Against Consumption by Infants
January 22, 2011 | 285,441 views
Professor Paul Connett: Your Toxic Tap Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo6SnvmMP9k&feature=player_embedded#at=291
A new study has found that the protective shield fluoride forms on teeth is up to 100 times thinner than previously believed. This raises questions about how this renowned cavity-fighter really works.
It has long been believed that fluoride changes the main mineral in tooth enamel, hydroxyapatite, into a more-decay resistant material called fluorapatite. But the new research found that the fluorapatite layer formed in this way is only 6 nanometers thick — meaning it would take almost 10,000 such layers to span the width of a human hair.
According to Science Daily:
“The scientists question whether a layer so thin, which is quickly worn away by ordinary chewing, really can shield teeth from decay”.
Another new study shows that exposure to fluoride may lower children’s intelligence. In addition to toothpaste, fluoride is added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies. PR Newswire reports:
“About 28 percent of the children in the low-fluoride area scored as bright, normal or higher intelligence compared to only 8 percent in the ‘high’ fluoride area … in the high-fluoride city, 15 percent had scores indicating mental retardation and only 6 percent in the low-fluoride city.”
is a potent neurotoxin that’s been fraudulently promoted as a cure for cavities for the past five decades. Finally, we’re beginning to see the kind of research needed to hopefully reverse this great injustice…
The two recent scientific developments above deserve special notice as together they offer a compelling picture of the truth. Not only do we now have yet another study showing that fluoridated water has a significant impact on children’s IQ, but researchers have also discovered that the benefits of topical application of fluoride is highly questionable.
Folks, there are FAR better options for decreasing tooth decay than using a topical poison or ingesting a harmful industrial pollutant.
Fluoride Does Not Make Your Teeth More Resistant to Decay
According to Science Daily, Americans spend a staggering $50 billion a year on the treatment of cavities.
Fluoride, long heralded as the answer to decaying teeth, can be found in a vast assortment of toothpastes, mouthwashes and professionally applied fluoride treatments. It’s even added to your drinking water for this purpose.
Now, a groundbreaking study published in the journal Langmuir has uncovered that the fluorapatite layer formed on your teeth from fluoride is a mere six nanometers thick. To understand just how thin this is, you’d need 10,000 of these layers to get the width of a strand of your hair! Scientists now question whether this ultra-thin layer can actually protect your enamel and provide any discernible benefit, considering the fact that it is quickly eliminated by simple chewing.
An Even Bigger Issue: Water Fluoridation
The conventional wisdom has been that topical application of fluoride can help strengthen your enamel and help prevent decay. If that’s untrue, then the case against water fluoridation—the ingestion of fluoride—becomes even stronger than it ever was before.
There’s just no doubt that ingesting fluoride has no beneficial effect on your teeth. In fact, there’s overwhelming evidence indicating that fluoride is a potent toxin that can cause a wide array of severe health problems once ingested.
When evaluating the issue of water fluoridation it is also important to understand that fluoride is a drug. You can’t get fluoride without a prescription.
Yet it’s being added to your water supply on a mandatory basis at various levels that may or may not be safe for various individuals, especially children, the sick, and the elderly. Water fluoridation is a major assault on your freedom of choice – to be drugged or not.
Sodium fluoride, which is a far simpler toxin than the fluoride compounds used for most water fluoridation, has also been used for rat and cockroach poisons, so there is no question that it is highly toxic.
Amazingly, the United States is only one of eight countries in the entire developed world that fluoridates more than 50 percent of its water supply. (The other seven are: Australia, Colombia, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore.)
In Europe, Ireland is the only country that fluoridates more than 50 percent of its drinking water, and England fluoridates 10 percent. Most of mainland Europe is not fluoridated, and yet, according to World Health Organization data, their teeth are just as good, if not better than Americans’.
Studies Link Water Fluoridation to Reduced IQ in Children
The latest study linking water fluoridation to lowered IQ was announced in a December 21 news release.
However, this study was recently withdrawn from publication according to Jane Schroeder (NIH/NIEHS). In an email response she explained the reason for the withdrawal as follows:
“Following Ahead of Print publication EHP learned that many of the data had been published in a previous paper (Xiang et al. 2003. Effect of fluoride in drinking water on children’s intelligence.
Fluoride 36: 84-94), in violation of EHP¹s policy regarding the use of previously published material in original Research Articles.
Consequently, the paper had to be withdrawn from publication.”
That said, the data published in 2003 still stands and is still valid. Dr. Connett has also stated that his comments still stand.
According to Paul Connett, director of the Fluoride Action Network:
“This is the 24th study that has found this association, but this study is stronger than the rest because the authors have controlled for key confounding variables and in addition to correlating lowered IQ with levels of fluoride in the water, the authors found a correlation between lowered IQ and fluoride levels in children’s blood.
This brings us closer to a cause and effect relationship between fluoride exposure and brain damage in children.
What is also striking is that the levels of the fluoride in the community where the lowered IQs were recorded were lower than the EPA’s so-called ‘safe’ drinking water standard for fluoride of 4 ppm and far too close for comfort to the levels used in artificial fluoridation programs (0.7 – 1.2 ppm).”
Trained as a chemist specializing in environmental chemistry, Dr. Connett is known throughout the world as a leader in the movement opposing water fluoridation because of his knowledge base. His organization, the Fluoride Action Network, contains a wealth of information on this topic.
Earlier this year I joined forces with Connett to publicize his game plan to end water fluoridation in Canada and the United States. I’ll review it again at the end of this article.
In December 2010, a second study reporting an association with exposure to fluoride and lowered IQ in children was pre-published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials.
According to the authors, “our study suggested that low levels of fluoride exposure in drinking water had negative effects on children’s intelligence and dental health and confirmed the dose–response relationships between urine fluoride and IQ scores as well as dental fluorosis.”
This study indicates a 5 point lowering in IQ as the fluoride level in drinking water went from about 0.3 ppm to 3.0 ppm.
Fluoride has Been Repeatedly Linked to Brain Damage
In addition to this study, there are 23 more from four different countries (Mexico, Iran, India and China), which indicate that even moderate exposure to fluoride lowers IQ in children.
According to Dr. Connett, there are also more than 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage, spanning all the way back to 1941.
Unfortunately, most of the IQ studies have been unavailable in English, which is why the 2006 fluoride report created by the National Research Council of the National Academies contained only five of the available studies.
Still, while reviewing just 20 percent of the evidence, the panel concluded that there was a consistent and plausible link between fluoride exposure and reduced IQ. The news release quotes Tara Blank, Ph.D., the Science and Health Officer for the Fluoride Action
Network as saying:
”Millions of American children are being exposed unnecessarily to this neurotoxin on a daily basis. Who in their right mind would risk lowering their child’s intelligence in order to reduce a small amount of tooth decay, for which the evidence is very weak.”
Indeed.
According to Dr. Connett, the newest studies show that over 40 percent of American children are overexposed to fluoride. How can we know? Because they have the telltale sign of dental fluorosis.
In its mildest form, dental fluorosis looks like little white specks on your teeth. But as it gets more serious, it begins affecting more of the surface of your teeth, creating yellow, brown and orange mottling.
Promoters of fluoridation scoff at these signs, saying that they’re “just cosmetic.”
But, since we already know that water fluoridation does NOT effectively reduce dental caries, this is an unnecessary cosmetic defect, and, worse yet, it is a worrisome indication that your body has been overexposed to fluoride.
If it’s having a detrimental, visual effect on the surface of your teeth, you can be virtually guaranteed that it’s also damaging something else inside your body, such as your bones.
Other Fluoride-Induced Health Problems
In fact, fluoride will accumulate in your body and can, over time, lead to far more serious health concerns.
There are plenty of studies showing the dangers of fluoride to your health—besides dental fluorosis—such as:
Increases lead absorption
Disrupts synthesis of collagen
Hyperactivity and/or lethargy
Muscle disorders
Brain damage, and lowered IQ
Arthritis
Dementia
Bone fractures
Lowers thyroid function
Bone cancer (osteosarcoma)
Inactivates 62 enzymes
Inhibits formation of antibodies
Genetic damage and cell death
Increases tumor and cancer rate
Disrupts immune system
Damages sperm and increases infertility
Parents Beware: Never Use Fluoridated Tap Water when Making Infant Formula
Most of the people who are educated about fluoride will avoid drinking municipal tap water that is fluoridated, and a reverse osmosis system is about the only way to rid your water of fluoride.
However, there are many who simply don’t have the resources or the know-how to protect themselves and their young children. In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) sent out an email to alert its members of their recommendation to parents to not use fluoridated tap water to make infant formula. A few days later, the CDC followed suit.
But neither of them openly informed the public!
So millions of parents are still using tap water to make up formula, oblivious of the fact that the agencies that promote fluoridation in this country have issued a specific warning against using fluoridated water for this purpose.
Not only that, but by fluoridating the municipal water supply, you doom many low income families to fail to protect their young children from this dangerous drug, even if they have this information.
What’s the REAL Cause of Tooth Decay?
Tooth decay is caused by acids in your mouth, typically created from sugar being metabolized by bacteria (Streptococcus mutans), and as you may already know, the number one source of calories in the United States is high fructose corn syrup.
The acid produced then attacks your enamel. Eventually the bacteria can get into the dentine, at which point tooth decay sets in. You typically don’t find dental caries in more primitive societies that do not consume these vast amounts of sugar.
So, the real answer lies in your diet. Avoid excessive sugar consumption, and your dental health will improve along with the rest of your body.
There’s no doubt about it: fluoride should not be ingested. Even scientists from the EPA’s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory have classified fluoride as a “chemical having substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.
” Furthermore, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 41 percent of American adolescents now have dental fluorosis—unattractive discoloration and mottling of the teeth that indicate overexposure to fluoride. Clearly, children are being overexposed, and their health and development put in jeopardy.
Why?
At least when it comes to topical application, you have a choice. You can easily buy fluoride-free toothpaste and mouthwash. But you’re stuck with whatever your community puts in the water, and it’s very difficult to filter out of your water once it’s added. Many do not have the resources or the knowledge to do so.
The only real solution is to stop the archaic practice of water fluoridation in the first place. Fortunately, the Fluoride Action Network has a game plan to END water fluoridation, both in the United States and Canada.
Clean pure water is a prerequisite to optimal health. Industrial chemicals, drugs and other toxic additives really have no place in our water supplies. So, please, support the anti-fluoride movement by making a donation to the Fluoride Action Network today.
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Uploaded on Dec 24, 2010
Dr. Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry at St. Lawrence University in New York, gives a damning interview on the history of water fluoridation, the collusion of major industries to put certified toxic waste into your drinking water, and why government health authorities refuse to conduct scientific studies into the dangers of fluoridation.
After watching this video, you will never look at tap water the same way again. Connett describes how he initially thought people who opposed fluoridation were “a bunch of whackos,” before conducting his own research which found that sodium fluoride was a toxic substance that contributed to a wide array of health defects.
Heavy industry is barred from dumping this toxic waste into the sea by international law, but being able to sell it enables them to remove its hazardous characteristic and it becomes a product, explains Connett, polluting not only our water supply but also toothpaste and thousands of different foods.
Connett provides a detail run down of the many health problems caused by fluoride consumption, including dental fluorosis, which the Centers For Disease Control just recently announced was a problem for 41 per cent of children aged 12-15 in the United States.
This clearly indicates that children are being over-exposed to fluoride and that this is affecting other tissues and organs in the body, including bone disorders, a problem also wreaking havoc amongst adults in the United States as one in three now suffer from arthritis, which again is being caused by a build-up of toxic fluoride in the body.
Connett also points to fluoride’s connection with thyroid disorders. There have now been over 100 studies involving animals which show that fluoride damages the brain, stresses Connett, which is a particular concern for newborn babies who are susceptible to fluoride build up because of their weak blood-brain barrier.
Connett cites numerous studies which prove a link between moderate exposure to fluoride and lowered IQ in children. Fluoride’s impact on the pineal gland, which is a piece of brain tissue that sits in-between the two hemispheres of the brain, is key because fluoride attracts to this gland like a magnet.
Researchers have found through animal studies that fluoride lowers the ability of the pineal gland to produce the hormone melatonin, which in turn shortens the time it takes to reach puberty, correlating with studies of fluoridated communities that show girls are on average menstruating 5 months earlier than those in non-fluoridated communities.
Children are entering puberty at increasingly early stages and this is causing widespread concern, but health authorities have made no effort whatsoever to conduct any studies regarding this development and its link to fluoride.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:00 pm
The longer folks see ObamaCare in action, the more they’ll like it.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:02 pm
When 95+% of the American People see ObamaCare as a Good thing, the Republican Party will switch to calling it ACA and start saying, “Look at what WE did!”.
I’ll take odds on that.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:03 pm
During the Open Enrollment period, you can buy qualified private health insurance through the government Marketplace. After the Open Enrollment period, you can only sign up for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIPS) through healthcare.gov.
Unless, that is, you have certain personal or professional needs that require a change in your health insurance. These include getting married, moving, getting a new job that pays more, or losing your health insurance. The exact date you apply for insurance during Open Enrollment affects the date your health insurance will begin.
You’ll be covered faster if you apply between the 1st and 15th of the month when your insurance will take effect on the first day of the following month. If you apply after the 15th of the month, your insurance won’t take effect for 4 to 6 weeks.
What happens if you miss the deadline and don’t buy health insurance in 2014? Besides risking financial hardship should you have a health crisis, you’ll have to pay a penalty of 1% of your household income, or $95 per adult, whichever is greater
April 17th, 2014 at 4:06 pm
“Though these efforts failed to achieve the larger goal, they almost certainly succeeded at convincing some people to skip Obamacare. And when confronted about the recklessness of their strategy, the most unscrupulous conservatives would say, No biggie! Obamacare allows people to enroll after they get sick or injured. So there’s no risk at all.”
That’s a depraved process ESPECIALLY since you put your constituents at risk for your own personal political gain… it’s a perverse thought process… who thinks like that except a morally bankrupt person…
April 17th, 2014 at 4:13 pm
The Republican message is: “The President is black, which means you should put the health of your family at risk, so we can score political points during FoxNews appearances!”
April 17th, 2014 at 4:20 pm
I went to school in Clemson, SC. I can confirm that my friends who still live there are PISSED at Obama, because of SC’s decision to opt-out of Obamacare.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:21 pm
I always hear people say “The right are soooooo dumb, how can they think X”. Clearly they are doing all of this on purpose. It’s planned and coordinated so they can get what they want.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:22 pm
It is almost funny how the Right is relying on peoples ignorance of health insurance to make this argument.
Anyone whose employer offers health care should be familiar with the open enrollment period (it comes around once a year, and if other employers are like my past three employers HR will send out a swarm of reminders).
April 17th, 2014 at 4:23 pm
It’s much easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they’ve been fooled.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:24 pm
These people are irrational morons. They will blame Obama no matter what, even if it is the GOP’s fault
April 17th, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Foowey, we were mad at signing up: now we can be mad that they can’t sign up until Nov.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:26 pm
Xavier#6, I wouldn’t go that far.
The Birthers and the TEA Party certainly go that route, but the GOP as a whole does not.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Beverly#8, Yes, but when I say “The right are soooooo dumb, how can they think X,” I’m talking about the voters, not the politicians.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:34 pm
Beverly#8, sure. They are doing it on purpose.
Their foreign, domestic, and economic policies have repeatedly failed.
Those brain donors cannot develop any new policies because they refuse to adapt.
So they manipulate voters into acting against their best interests and then feign outrage.
However, the voters who repeatedly fall for this crap are to blame for their poor, political judgment.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:36 pm
Brooke#9, But the bulk of ACA eligible enrollees aren’t familiar with the ins and outs of employer based insurance. They’ve never been eligible.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:38 pm
Sean#10, Those on the right aren’t all innocent bystanders. It’s easy to fool someone who is predisposed to being a fool.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:43 pm
Val#13:
Where do you think the Tea party came from? The Democratic party? The Green party? Before a black guy was in office, we had another name for them: Republicans.
What do you think the Southern Strategy is? Why do you think the people who voted nothing but Republican post-LBJ’s Civil rights signing?
The Republican’s use of the Southern Strategy after that and suddenly they started voting Republican was a happenstance? Do you think the people who have been voting Republican the last 40 years, specifically because they appealed to racism, vanished?
That’s still their primary strategy.
If you don’t see that, well… it must be you’re inferior because of your inner city culture.
For the last four decades they’ve been the Republican party core.
Saying “Oh, that’s just the Tea Party” is a bit like saying “Oh, they’re just Republicans.” They’ve been Republican voters this entire time.
They didn’t split into another pseudo-party because a Democrat was in office. They split into another party because a specific Democrat was in office. A BLACK ONE!
If you’re saying everyone in the GOP follows that route inherently, no of course not. Obviously a large chunk is simply tribal and will attack a Democrat for any reason.
If you think the fact there’s a Democrat who is also black doesn’t change the degrees of that…
Remember, Fox News gleefully gave public air time to these birthers, constantly had birthers and “He’s a Kenyan!” imbeciles on their channel over and over and over again.
The divide between promoting racism and merely promoting the racists promoting racism is rather thin.
If you think the majority of the party, including the house and senate Republicans and Fox News don’t do the wink, wink, nod as much as possible, then you’re nuts. You … ahem…”thug.”
April 17th, 2014 at 4:47 pm
Scarlett#14, Good point. I’ve heard it said in terms of politicians too though.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:51 pm
Sean#10, It’s easy to fool someone who is predisposed to being a fool.
April 17th, 2014 at 4:55 pm
Lockhart#18, Just as all Democrats don’t want to be lumped in with the OWS people, not all Republicans want to be lumped in with the TEA Party.
To be clear, I am a liberal. And being a liberal, I like to think I use logic when I make statements. I made a logical statement that not all Republicans are racist.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Lockhart#18, “Where do you think the Tea party came from? The Democratic party? The Green party? Before a black guy was in office, we had another name for them: Republicans.”
Forgive me if I’m misreading you, but are you saying the Green Party is made of or is an off-shoot of the Republican Party?
April 17th, 2014 at 5:04 pm
Val#21, The first part of your post was reasonable. Sadly then you had to go on this stupid attack against liberals and the users of this subreddit by ironically straw manning and overgeneralizing. You really shot yourself in the foot there.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:06 pm
Val#21, It doesn’t hurt to paint all Republicans as teabaggers. Perhaps moderate Republicans will finally be embarrassed enough to take their party back from the extremists.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:07 pm
Val#21, I think there is a difference here. OWS was never formally recognized as a faction of a national party, allowed to influence its policies, or specifically targeted to get more votes.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:08 pm
Val#21, republicans vote for Republican candidates, who are racist. If you vote for a racist, make your own conclusion I suppose.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:09 pm
Val#21, You shouldn’t have to clarify your political affiliations to make these people feel better. The fact of the matter is, there are Republicans who are Republican in the traditional sense.
They are small government, very low on government assistance, & genuinely think that helping or aiding others should come from them ( not just using it as an excuse to be cheap).
A lot of the ones that you’re seeing making decisions that you don’t agree with aren’t Republican in that sense. They’re Randian philosophy, that whole “virtue of selfishness” bull crap.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Mimi#22, I think you are misreading him.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:14 pm
Stanley#, by “subdreddit”, I hope you mean this blog. This Blog and its regulars need to be taken down a peg.
Like I said, I am liberal. Shit, I’ve been liberal longer than most of the users here have been alive.
However, attacking the other side as clearly 100% racist then not being able to take criticism yourself is the hallmark of idiocy.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:16 pm
Tony#19, I am just saying that from what I’ve seen of your posts you are the poster child of pot calling the kettle black.
Might I suggest going back at some point and rereading your posts and using them to consider how you might be coming off?
April 17th, 2014 at 5:19 pm
Tony#19, me too, and it drives me crazy.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:22 pm
Dudley#30, Well, that’s because they actually had those unfathomably dumb morons rise to the top.
Instead of manipulative, border-line sociopaths being the “leaders”, the “true believers” now have a foothold in their political party, and rooting them out is quite difficult.
The people who eat up these absurd idiocies don’t suddenly go “Oh, alright, these beliefs won’t win me elections anymore” with the rest of them, they cling to them as much as they do to any of their fundamentalist beliefs.
April 17th, 2014 at 5:31 pm
Thank you Michelle for responding to my post.
Val###,etc. You are the prime example of the LSOS. We all know that you are a republican pretending to be a liberal so you can come off all honest and shit.
You are fooling no one least of the “regulars” on this blog. And actually #29 “…the hallmark of idiocy,” is to try to make the fact that the republican party is a bastion for racists a non issue for those of us who know better.
April 18th, 2014 at 9:23 am
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