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ancianita

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8. Well, first you said "how quickly. " Now it's "gradually" over 25 years. The "folding" you refer to
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 01:20 PM
Sep 19

isn't accurate or fair, either, because the Dems, while governing competently, might have been aware of a Charles Koch's funding through Heritage and the Federalist Society to swing the SCOTUS, but it wasn't until the last two congressional sessions that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse followed the money and established the evidence that it was he who bought the maga SCOTUS, and how.
Then the party finally saw Project 2025's goals and learned of Heritage's larger stealth operation, funded by Koch, for the last 25 years. It's not Democrats' fault that while they were governing, plans to privatize the US economy had been in the works; nor could they have exerted oversight of the private business owner, Charles Koch, or the founders of Heritage.

That timeline of the stealth defunding & undermining of democracy is important, yes. And of course it should matter to everyone, not just me.

Your claims are baseless, because in fact, as you eventually realize, none of this has been done quickly. Nor did the left or Democrats "fold."




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