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Hey Joe

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4. I tend to agree with you based on our experience

Reply to Midnight Writer (Reply #3)

Sat Jun 20, 2026, 11:31 AM

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up to this point.
When a people are taught to value wealth and shiny baubles over truth, values, principles and character such as we have in America, then we are bound to be ruled by those who possess it.
Wish I was wrong but that’s what I’m seeing.

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