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hes ⚡️ | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +14 
 If Americans actually understood the economy, they would rank the federal budget deficit as the no. 1 choice. 

End the fed. Buy #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/843f94f7270621a11069e1a6f749273e3c488d3febfd75909cec39552b85d020.jpg
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Jack D | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 If they cared about the economy, they wouldn't pick democracy as number 2
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hes ⚡️ | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 So cringe. The nation was deliberately set up to NOT be a democracy 😂

Propaganda is a hellauva drug
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Erdos | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 This is why the Founding Fathers argued for a Constitutional Republic with Representatives to protect against straight democracies where factions of uneducated and misinformed mobs rule. 

Federalist Papers #10, #68
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hes ⚡️ | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Precisely. Cannot believe how many people are towing the “muh democracy” line nowadays.