What Is Your Favorite Political Quote? (politicians, leader, party, carry)
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"The reason socialism never took root in America is because the workers see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Originally Posted by Ecstatic Magnet "The reason socialism never took root in America is because the workers see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
- John Steinbeck
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Originally Posted by psikeyhackr
So was Steinbeck saying that workers were stupid?
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Originally Posted by Hyperthetic
Worse than that.
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Originally Posted by Ecstatic Magnet
Not stupid, naive.
Are you serious? You really don't understand what he was saying?
Originally Posted by Ecstatic Magnet "The reason socialism never took root in America is because the workers see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
- John Steinbeck
Are you serious? You really don't understand what he was saying?
Dulles, a career spy, Wall Street lawyer, the CIA director whom JFK had fired after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco - and the Warren Commission member who took charge of the investigation and final report - is reported to have said,
Don't worry,The American people don't read."
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
--- Thomas Sowell
Because it's really the "Post Inane Bull**** That Fuels Partisan Inferno Thread."
That's ex post scato!
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