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I think you're right, but that's why the MAGA movement is wiping out the old-school Republican establishment that was not very different at all from the Democrat Party. The MAGA movement is ANTI-GOVERNMENT in almost every way - especially the Federal Government. It is almost literally a REBELLION against the permanent, bipartisan political Ruling Class that has wrecked this country for decades and made us all poorer and sicker. Join the rebellion. Destroy the duopoly.

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I don’t hold as much hope. I agree there is a populist rebellion but the Establishment is dealing with it with a combination of measures. A clear example of cooptation is the general lack of action on jabs issue. We know they kill and damage and yet there are just 2 Republican Senators willing to mildly question the official narrative. There are many Representatives with large MAGA populations in their districts. Where are they on the issue of jab mandates? If there was a liberty issue, that was the one. Nothing! We’ve contacted our Republican Congressman and the Republican Senator and they came back with typical BS. We might as well have asked Fauci! Utterly useless.

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I agree.

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Well it didn't help that Trump himself publicly and vehemently supported the vaccine as well as claiming credit for it. I know several Trump supporters who took the vaccine because he raved about it and said it would save us from a 'pandemic that would be worse than the Spanish Flu!' Direct quote there. There have been more than two republican senators mildly pushing back tho. 23 states signed an agreement to fight the federal vax mandates.

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It isn't the people in elected office that we have to worry about. They can be changed easily. The real problem is the civil service bureaucracy. Until there are short, lifetime limits on how long someone can remain on the federal payroll in non-elected roles, we will continue to be treated as serfs and tax slaves.

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Elected politicians aren’t so easy to change if a critical mass of electorate, while believing the system is corrupt, their representative is just fine. Bureaucracy is entrenched because it was allowed by politicians to become entrenched. All parts of government now work for the same forces. Total corruption. The Congress has the power of the purse which they choose not to use because they work for the same oligarchical structures. An easy example are the "public health" agencies. They’ve proven themselves to be completely taken over by corporate interests, which replaced their "public health" mission entirely. Why don’t "our" political representatives act in any meaningful fashion? Because they are owned by and represent the same corporate interests. They could stop funding these bureaucracies, disband them, refashion them, but they won’t, will they? Alternating between Republicans and Democrats will solve nothing because they both represent the same forces, while not representing you.

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