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

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❝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.❞

Make your choice.

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

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Bookworm is looking for scapegoats

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Bookworm is looking for scapegoats

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I think that most people make mostly good choices.

Mostly.

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What’s been missing.

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The Imperious Leader lied.

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Just a few things here and there

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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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Baubles & distractions

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

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

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

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Cashing in on people's fear

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How a benevolent and socially progressive government drags people down

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My take on true believers of all stripes.

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