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Polemos's avatar

Asking a question is a way of soliciting information leading to understanding. We all come from different perspectives, and sometimes come to the same conclusion but from different paths. Learning how someone came to the same conclusion you did helps give you a much broader viewpoint. Just as asking someone from a different perspective with a different conclusion how they came to that conclusion also helps broaden your own sense of your own views.

Call it curiosity. Call it examination. If you've only ever asked someone who disagrees with you questions about how they think what they think, you won't learn as complete a picture of your own thinking as you might if you cultivated curiosity.

But thank you, Mary Contrary. Perhaps you are living up to your name for taking up contrarian questions. Perhaps I am living up to my chosen name as well.

But why do you call them elite Totalitarians? Elite with respect to what standard?

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Mary Contrary's avatar

I wasn’t trying to be a smart ass, so I apologize.

How did I come to realizing it?

Various ways: (here are Only a few of them)

~Reading many old history books, talking to Veterans, old people (I love old peoples wisdom)

~learning the history of How free societies are made less free

~& who controls our money (WCB)

~listened to the Words of Many on their Very own Ted Talks, conferences, etc over Many years.

~the erasing of history, gender, “equity” & ignoring what Martin Luther King fought & died for, as to how people would be judged.

~goals of WEF, HARSH & punishing censorship, etc etc

Again. Sorry for sounding harsh. It’s not 1 simple answer. I’ve been studying data for years. Hope this gives u some clarity.

& I verify everything. Debunking the debunkers has become quite fun for me.

I also Follow the Money. (Money & organization behind Fact-check, for example)

….it goes on & on.

….I catch lies, & can verify. My memory is exceptional.

My son & many friends think I shud be a highly paid researcher. I dunno.

I am just a curious person too.

I avoid the phrase, “curiosity killed the cat” for obvious reasons.

;-)

Be well.

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Jack D Crack's avatar

I can understand your desire for understanding. Simply put, what other nation on earth is there like America (of yester-year, but still preserved in our now federal-government-defiled Constitution)? The recognition of The Creator and the inalienable rights He has gifted to humanity, codified in our founding documents. America, or should I say freedom-loving hard-working honest Americans, is at war with the world. Does that mean America is perfect? No. Do Americans work hard to correct those imperfections? Yes. Is that work being sabotaged by outside forces? Well, ask yourself why public schools are hell-bent on teaching students to hate themselves (as designed by God), hate each other (because of the color of their skin), and hate their country (because of our imperfect past)?

So my answer was serious. Lots and lots of reading...

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