Seriously, if I wanted America to fail:
- I would spend enormous sums of money convincing the populace that government was inept at best and evil at worst.
- I would support an authoritarian style of "leadership" and would use economics to coerce people into submission.
- I would call out every one who voiced an opinion different from mine as unpatriotic.
- I would value corporations over people and spend huge sums of money to "prove" that corporations are America.
- I would insist that the opinion of one paid-off scientist was correct while the data from 99 independent researchers was fudged.
- I would pretend that breathable air and drinkable water were the "agenda of the radical fringe."
- I would insist that my interpretations of the desires of an unseen deity were more valid than common sense and empirical evidence.
- Ironically, I would do everything I could to damage the beauty and the bounty the unseen deity provided.
- I would lobby for laws to force other people to follow my interpretation of the rules passed down from my unseen deity. Because of my role as interpreter, I would be exempt from and forgiven for not following these rules myself.
- I would hold up rapacious corporations as the proxy for that unseen deity.
- I would hold up rapacious corporations as the proxy for American citizens.
- To be clear, I would use every means at my disposal to convince you that the well-being of rapacious multi-national corporations is an indicator of the well-being of our nation as well as its citizens.
- I would remain ignorant about the difference between industrial capitalism and financial capitalism.
- I would exalt as job creators the very people who have been on a long spree of job destruction.
- I would remove every regulation and ensure the destruction of the very resources we count on for survival.
- I'd call people who think social safety nets make good sense "socialists."
- I would perpetuate the myth that a true free market needs no regulation as if a free market were not a human construct.
- I would narrowly define the American Dream to fit my lifestyle and choices and demonize anyone who had a different idea.
- I'd twist and distort every fact about how we got to this sad state of affairs to suit my agenda.
- I'd perpetuate this silly game of Left vs. Right so that no meaningful or wise decisions could ever be made.
Just testing...is this thing on?
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