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Yes, and the American people, so hard working towards "getting and spending" need to be awakened. On the surface, without even the interview or that 2025 agenda I don't know how people can be so oblivious. We are, it seems in the late stage of this. And structurally how do we change it? Are we stuck and destined to lose this experiment in democracy? Education is key.. I mean combatting ignorance, but how do we get through to people and turn the tide? Why does humanity have to learn the hard and painful way, if it learns at all? Pain and suffering seem to be prime movers... hitting home... because we are selfish beings. I hope I did not help to ruin your day.

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Not at all. It's a consistent lesson in human history that democracy is a privilege. American exceptionalism is being disproven because one our flaws is believing we are immune to history. This feature is displayed in our nation's harmful way of ignoring racial politics or the way it is a prime motivator for many to dispel of democracy because of fear, hate, ignorance, or indifference.

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Democracy IS a privilege, according to history. Prof Timothy Snyder writes, teaches, about this most recently and in his substack. We are indeed an experiment here.. a multicultural democracy. And we have flaws that have arisen in time that don't seem to have a way to get fixed structurally without violence and another revolution, pain and suffering. We just don't want to go through that, so addicted to "getting and spending" and "normality" and our "exceptionalism" in history. That makes us feel invulnerable, such that we prefer to stick our heads in the ground "it can't happen here". But there are bad actors and they are upon us. We are actually being threatened within. Democracy contains the ability for its own demise.

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paid advertising works

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then donating for it must.

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