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Mickel Adzema

Oct 27 • 51 tweets • 71 min read

Ch 24, “Money Madness:

“The Wealthy Are the Creative Sector...

"Creative in Devising Schemes Putting *Our* Money in *Their* Pockets”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

Fr *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

by Adzema

(publ'd 10/2022)

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CW22Q 24/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website, as well as a free pdf file, & on Amazon in print & ebook, as of Oct 2022)

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CW22Q 24/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…when you hear the same things again & again, even black-and-white facts can be put up for dispute.” []

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CW22 24/3

[] “…we have a group of people who think that people are really rich. The assumption is that most Americans are rolling in dough so that any tax increase on the wealthy is an attack on all Americans.” []

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CW22Q 24/4

[] “And you can’t tax that sliver of the very, very wealthy a little bit more so that the majority of Americans might benefit.” []

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CW22Q 24/5

[] “Benefiting the majority of Americans used to be how you got to ‘home base.’ But now, it’s like, ‘No, you can’t tax Americans; we are Taxed Enough Already!’” []

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CW22 24/6

]“The way this ‘obvious truth’ is phrased now...no way to get around it, it’s a flat out lie...goes,‘You can’t tax the very rich, cause that’s’...& they’ll just say it right out...‘that’s gonna affect all Americans, that’s taxing everybody.’”[

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CW22Q 24/7

[] “Well how did it get to that conclusion when actually it’s going to lower taxes?” []

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CW22Q 24/8

[] “Pre-Roosevelt turn-of-the-century initiatives so common & familiar now, such as the Food & Drug Administration, are the kinds of things Democrats brought in that added to government.” []

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CW22 24/9

[] “Yet, Republicans spout misinformation; they get people angry about ‘evils’ of such ‘big government.’” []

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CW22Q 24/10

[] “The Democrats are the ones who brought in the FDA, worker’s rights, workman’s compensation. They’re the ones who put in Medicare. They’re the ones who put in Social Security.” []

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CW22Q 24/11

[] “And we remember the Republicans are the ones who created the Great Depression, created poverty for everybody at that time.” []

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CW22 24/12

[] “Republicans are the ones who did it again with Ronald Reagan, who tripled & nearly quadrupled the National Debt under the twelve years of Reagan-Bush, then more than doubled it under George W. That’s a lot of goddamn money.” []

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CW22Q 24/13

[] “…how could we forget that [the Republicans] just took the money & did whatever they wanted with it? They paid off debts to other rich friends; they went overseas & invested in other countries.” []

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CW22Q 24/14

[] “…we have this idea of tax-and-spend Democrats. It’s been repeated, going back many decades. It basically goes back to Roosevelt who ended the Depression & benefited virtually all Americans. & now that’s somehow a bad thing,..” []

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CW22 24/15

[]“…brought up to get you mad about the tax-and-spend Democrat. & they’ve got all Americans convinced that if you vote for a Democrat, they’re going to take your money, they’re going to tax it,& they’re going to spend it on somebody else.”[]

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CW22Q 24/16

[] “Well, that has nothing to do with the truth.

“Certainly Roosevelt benefited all Americans with Social Security & so on;” []

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CW22Q 24/17

[] “certainly Medicare, brought in under Lyndon Johnson benefited the vast majority of Americans. All these things the Democrats did.

“& Bill Clinton raised taxes on the very rich a few percentage points & balanced the budget.” []

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CW22 24/18

[] “Clinton created jobs & prosperity, balanced the budget, reduced the National Debt, & created a surplus that could have gone into creating a better America for all Americans.” []

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CW22Q 24/19

[] “But, no, that was considered bad, because they said it hurt all Americans when the extremely wealthy had to give a little more in taxes.” []

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CW22Q 24/20

[] “…it wasn’t about the truth anymore. & it wasn’t about benefiting society at large. At this point, it was solely about how you made it to home base, how rich folks got money for themselves.” []

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CW22 24/21

[] “& it didn’t matter anymore if you just skipped all the bases, & you started at home & went to home...if you just took the money. I mean, after a while the Republicans could just do that;” []

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CW22Q 24/22

[] “tax breaks for the wealthy just because they were wealthy. Because, after a while, after all those years of repeating it: They could get away with, ‘If you tax the wealthy, you’re taxing all Americans.’” []

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CW22Q 24/23

[] “The wealthy were scrambling; they had so much money they were fighting over art objects. & the art objects—paintings & so on, famous paintings—were making headlines in being sold for so much.” []

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CW22 24/24

[] “You give money to rich people who don’t need it, they’re the ones who are going to squander it….

“In economics this is called diminishing marginal returns.” []

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CW22Q 24/25

[] “You simply cannot throw money at folks or ventures & expect to get as much, let alone more, return or reward later when the person is less ‘hungry’ or the project less ‘starved’ for funds.” []

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CW22Q 24/26

[] “Whereas, you give a fraction of that money to a poor person, a tiny amount of that to a poor or moderate income person & what will they do? You have any idea how somebody who is poor will make a little bit of money go a long long way?” []

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CW22 24/27

[] “…you have people who would take any money coming their way to better their situation in life, the *real* American way.” []

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CW22Q 24/28

[] “They would really love to be millionaires; they would risk their very lives for that. They would work their asses off. But those folks aren’t the people who are already billionaires.” []

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CW22Q 24/29

[] “…you’ve got these inanities thrown out there. They’re being said over & over again... ‘Rich people create the jobs; they’re society’s creative sector.’ These obvious untruths are not being countered by journalists & pundits.” []

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CW22 24/30

[] “Obvious ‘Truth’—A rising (economic) tide lifts all boats.

"Real Truth—The rich get richer at our expense.

"Real Truth—Our suffering has paid for even greater obscenities by the wealthy.” []

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CW22Q 24/31

[] “…we have this increasing deterioration of our prosperity, of our standard of living, of our joy of life. Life becomes more & more of a struggle, & who benefits?” []

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CW22Q 24/32

[] “Well, we see who benefits. We now have a new super-rich class which is above even the very rich. It’s called the *Filthy Rich*…” []

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CW22 24/33

[] “…to create this super-rich class where did that money come from? Well, it’s come at the cost of average people like us.” []

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CW22Q 24/34

[] “…our rights & our freedoms have changed. Because of their successes in the Culture War/ Class War, because of Reagan & Bush, the Patriot Act, the neo-con takeover, Trump, & everything,..”

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CW22Q 24/35

[] “…our rights to speak out & to live without harassment have been diluted. Out of all the civilized countries in the world we have the greatest percentage of our people in jails.” []

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CW22 24/36

[] “We have these huge corporations taking over, & it’s humiliating to people.” []

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CW22Q 24/37

[] “I can say I feel fortunate to have lived many years in an America quite different from what most people in the U.S. being younger than me have been growing up with.” []

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CW22Q 24/38

[] “How did the wealthy Controllers, the Filthy Rich, manage to convince so many people that their problems, rich folks’ problems, are actually a burden on poorer folks?” []

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CW22 24/39

[] “What accounts for [Filthy Rich folks] being able to convince people of such nonsense, such stupidity...it starts with making folks ripe for the picking.” []

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CW22Q 24/40

“[People being ripe for such nonsense, such stupidity as the Filthy Rich put out] begins with people being herded like pigs for the slaughter. & that involves taking over their minds.” []

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CW22Q 24/41

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 24 of my new book,

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

which is

“A Cultural & Political Psychohistory of America from the 1950s to 2022”

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CW22 24/42

The entire book is available online at the links

& you can download a free copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* there.

Feel free to download it, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic Blue Wave in Nov., as you wish,

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CW22Q 24/43

Feel free to download copies of *Culture War, Class War 2022*, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic Blue Wave in Nov., as you wish,

in preparation for the existentially important Midterm elections

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CW22Q 24/44

This is the completed document for *Culture War, Class War 2022*; it is extensively illustrated.

Click link:

drive.google.com/file/d/1CBiCav…

It is a pdf file, & it looks exactly as the book looks.

#BlueWave #Midterms #Matrix #ClassWar #Democrats #FilthyRich #taxes #resist

CW22 24/45

Download as many copies as you wish. It looks exactly as the book does.

The book was written as a primer on history & current events, as a lead up to the very important Midterm elections of November 2022.

Click link:

drive.google.com/file/d/1CBiCav…

#BlueWave #Midterms

CW22Q 24/46

said about *Culture War, Class War 2022":

"Well worth reading...Describes where we are & how we got here with great accuracy."

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CW22Q 24/47

If, instead of the free copies, you wish to purchase the book—ebook or paperback—these are the links to use:

Paperback: amazon.com/dp/B0BJ4YVDQC/…

Ebook: amazon.com/Culture-War-Cl…

All my books are sold at cost or the absolute lowest price Amazon allows

#BlueTsunami

CW22 24/48

Democrats need to WIN BIG in November

or it is all over for democracy in America & the world

& for the life on this planet.

You can use your copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* to get word out to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

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CW22Q 24/49

& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

[email protected]

The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media

And, above all, VOTE DEMOCRATIC

#Midterms #BlueWave #BlueTsunami #psychology #Blue

CW22Q 24/50

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