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>I think you give people too much credit.

I believe there is more there behind the scenes than us folks really know of what is going on. I didn't catch all the details such as those for or against Brexit vote, but was surprised along with others in 2017 when it was found out that Putin did work behind scenes to get Brexit vote to pass. I'll need to see if I can find the article, but it had stuff that was not known in 2016 when voting took place.

> I didn't exactly see a scientific sample pool of
>Brits on tv during the Brexit time period but I sure saw no lack of serious open racism and
>Putin didn't cause that. He might have helped bring it to the surface but the Brits look
>like they have boiling over hatred of immigrants in rural Britland.

True. A lot of the sentiment was on the citizens themselves along with heavyweight supporters such as Mayor Boris Johnson and Nigel Farrage and others, but Putin and some of the operatives got involved in the disinformation strategies that mislead or confused British voters into voting for Brexit legislation passing. Putin knew that this would then leave UK off to the side and might weaken UK's future economy.

>With the subject of voting against your own interest, seems very common. I thought people
>had grown smarter than this a few years ago but here we are, people will never learn.
>Hatred seems to motivate the shit out of people to go vote over all else, or some big-to-
>some-people subject like abortion.

I need to see if I can find Lyndon B. Johnson's 1960s era [when President then] infamous quote that he said regarding voters against their own interests. It pointed things out with the voter's mentality appropriately.

>Poor and "middle class" (everyone in the US thinks
>they are middle class lol) Republicans vote to have their money transferred to the 1% all
>the time so long as they are resisting abortion. I'm personally at the point where I'd
>say they can have abortion laws back in their favor if they will join a party that
>actually wants to help people. Not that that party seems to exist but everyone getting on
>a sane page about the economy would be a great place to start.

This current GOP congress is/are all crooks. They will not pass any form of legislation that will help citizens. They are hellbent on destroying current USA and turning it into some form similar to India [best case scenario] or maybe Nazi era Germany [worst case scenario]. GOP is in it to commit outright murder [legislation first....but maybe with bullets and bombs against US citizens as last choice if necessary] if the current GOP congress thinks it can get away with it.

I hate the Chicken little theme of "Sky is falling worst case scenario", but too many bad things happening at same time as this year gets underway.

That's why the UN Secretary General of United Nations declared 2018 as a "Red Alert" year just days ago. He sees what could happen and he is really worried. Maybe 2017 was a "concerned" year, but I am somewhat hesitant to agree with him that it might have to be elevated to a "Red Alert" year.

*for those curious if UN Secretary General stated 'Red Alert'*

https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/947486219851644928

NEW: UN Secretary-General issued a “red alert” for the world today. In his New Year message: “Unfortunately – in fundamental ways the world has gone in reverse. On New Year’s Day 2018 I am not issuing an appeal, I am issuing an alert – a red alert for our world.”