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republicans feel -- from the lowest paid wage worker to the highest office in the land. They're all terrified the people are going to come after them. And they SHOULD feel this way, if only Americans had a history that had been taught (re: drummed into them) all throughout their school years. Instead, the Revolutionary War was glossed over; the Civil War was much too complicated to spend a great deal of time and critical thinking over. We rarely read of protests and dissents in other countries. Most of us never realized that the French and English (at least) could call for a nationwide strike, and actually pull off a real nationwide strike, in order to change things their governments refused to listen to them complain about. How different our lives might be if we were taught we were of a diverse but united community who pulled together for each other, rather than "rugged individualism" being held up as the true promise of real America.

Republicans, conservatives, religious nuts, and magats are absolutely among the most fearful of any people I've ever seen. It would be interesting to compare the amygdala from one of these people 20-30 years ago, vs the amygdala from a magat of today. How much more mutant would it be? My guess... highly mutated.