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progressoid

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6. Cognitive dissonance is right.

Reply to MontanaFarmer (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:32 AM

Nov 2020

I grew up in a small farming community. Government handouts are bad except when it benefits them. I have yet to find a way to break through their bubble of hypocrisy.

I had hoped that the shellacking they took from Trump's policies would wake them up. Nope. Here in IA they seem to have doubled down on their hypocrisy.

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