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Not surprised at all. You guys need to tone down the insane hyperbole by a solid 90% and actually start trying to coexist with your fellow countrymen instead of inviting in any and every threat you can find because they'll happily confirm your biases in public while fleecing the nation behind the curtains. You need to stop playing stupid word games to try and redefine reality, as though how you talk about things can change what they actually are. You need to actually put some real effort into learning and working towards change instead of just parroting everything you heard on social media today then pretending you're so much smarter than everyone else.
You started off making a plea to liberals and then exactly described the trump campaign. It's a great illustration of what happens when billionaires control all of the media.
"As long as we accuse our opponents of doing what we are doing it's 'both sides' and everyone is equally bad! "
I would never have believed it would work if I didn't live through it.