Alternate title: "The greatest con ever pulled"
We on the left, or what we call the left now, have many strengths. Intellectualism. Open mindedness. Empathy. Respect for others. But those strengths carry with them our biggest flaws. We are not cohesive and never will be. We are anti-authoritarian, even to our own ideological leaders. We all too often offer mercy to our enemies long before we've finished our battles. And perhaps worst is that we assume those enemies are of good will.
Thus did the right build the perfect beast.
We now have a potentially mildly retarded, delusional religious fundamentalist in the service of the corporatists and the financial elite in control of the most powerful nation on earth.
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