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Religions are created by people claiming to speak for the Divine.

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Rebellion rumbles

Seven years ago, I wrote about the Free Market Rebellion. I said that people were fed up with their leaders and their institutions.

I haven't been the only one who noticed. I thought it would happen much sooner. Lately things have been coming to a head.

John Hackmann, a Fairview Heights, Ill., retiree, labeled it a “Washington cartel.”

“They just let the government do whatever they want,” said Jim Walker, an Arnold, Mo., businessman.

What is the establishment? Nationally, eight in 10 people told a McClatchy-Morning Consult poll this month it includes members of Congress. Similar numbers cited the Democratic and Republican parties, political donors, Wall Street bankers and the mainstream media.

They split on whether Trump, a billionaire real estate developer who’s thrived in the New York business world, was part of the establishment, but seven in 10 said Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton was.

In essence, the establishment lives and thrives in a small world that lives and works in New York and Washington, on Wall Street, in Big Media, and in Politics, connected by the high-speed Acela corridor and often by mutual self interest.

Many, perhaps most, do care deeply about the common good though they are anything but common themselves. They hire each other and each other’s children. They huddle at the same white tie and black tie dinners. And, they sometimes attend each other’s weddings.

Of course Limbaugh has been going after the establishment too.

Remember, the elites chose Bush and Clinton. Those were the two people who were supposed to get the nomination. It blew up in their faces.

There's only one question left.

If government doesn't trust you, why should you trust government?

Make your choice.


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Bill of Rights Day

Let them be remembeblurb as cowards who only dablurb attack unarmed victims.

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Tyranny of the 16th

Bookworm is looking for scapegoats

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Reply to a Bookworm Rant

Bookworm is looking for scapegoats

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Honor in giving truth

I think that most people make mostly good choices.

Mostly.

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Will you?

What’s been missing.

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State of discord

The Imperious Leader lied.

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I'll tell you what I believe

Just a few things here and there

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Almost the last advocate

It's not a right unless everyone else has it too. Otherwise it's a privilege taken at someone else's expense.

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Bright and shineys

Baubles & distractions

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Leap of faith

My goal isn’t winning internet arguments, it’s freedom.

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Capitalism isn't

I believe that economics and morality should be based in free choice.

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NeoNotes - Choose your right

I believe that economics and morality should be based in free choice.

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United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Cashing in on people's fear

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Victims and paying for bad choices

How a benevolent and socially progressive government drags people down

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A Pagan looks at “Christian America”

My take on true believers of all stripes.

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