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The Wizard

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1. The great dumbing down started

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 05:11 PM

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in 1968 with VP Spiro Agnew and Alabama governor, George Wallace. They said thing like "pointy headed liberals in their ivory towers." In Republican code liberal is euther educated
Sine then the GQP has vilified education. Der Fuhrer said he loves the poorly educated. He left out the part about rubes and dupes. He left out the part about a permanent minimum wage work force.

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