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The Practice of Political Gnosticism

Alida3 Wrote: Mar 23, 2010 5:46 PM
You have hit the nail on the head. I keep asking myself how these people can continue doing what they are doing while we are screaming at them to slow down. I couldn't understand how little they care about what "we the people" want. Now I get it. They are patting us on the head, knowing that we are simple(y) unenlightened. Once they get their way,we'll see that they were right. I knew Obama was a narcissist long before he was elected, so his action don't surprise me. Because the liberals had been contained by the conservatives for such a long time I was not aware how much they really believe that they know so much more than we do about what is best for us. Now it all makes sense. I can now just sit back and know that however this all...

Twenty-five years ago this weekend, Mikhail Gorbachev took the reins of power in the now defunct, late-but-not-lamented Soviet Union, upon the death of Konstantin Chernenko. It is an open question as to whether or not Chernenko had been alive for long before this, or was he just propped up? And maybe it is just a coincidence that the movie Weekend at Bernie's came out just a few years later. After all, the director was of Bulgarian (Soviet Bloc) descent. Just sayin’.

At any rate, Gorbachev’s rise to power is seen now in hindsight as the moment the tide began to turn...

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