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Posted by Nilet on Thu Oct 30 20:23:26 2014, in response to Re: Important Reminders!, posted by FtGreeneG on Thu Oct 30 18:53:34 2014. The problem with that is that 14 years ago, all of the factors that led to our current fuckup were already in motion— we'd already armed and trained Al Qaeda, we'd already appointed the judges that handed Bush the White House, we'd already passed most the deregulation that caused the economic collapse and created the environment to finish it off, and the Republican slide into lunacy was already well underway and difficult to stop. After all, they impeached Clinton over an affair— obviously, the Republican Party was already crazy enough to believe they had an absolute right to rule and a Democratic president is inherently illegitimate, justifying anything necessary to get rid of him. The 9/11 attacks just gave them the popular panic and political cover to be able to do what they were going to do in the first place. Without 9/11, the country would have arrived at its current state of fuckup, just for different reasons. |
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