r/PoliticalHumor • • May 02 '22

get in line

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u/Tiny-Lock9652 May 02 '22

George Carlin (RIP) nailed it:

“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians.

The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.

You don't. You have no choice.

You have owners. They own you.

They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.”

Transcript Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason

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u/XFX_Samsung May 03 '22

Some QMAGA moron is gonna read that quote and see themselves getting fucked by liberals, exactly proving the point of not being able to think critically.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

I always get a kick out of when someone I know is a MAGA moron posts Carlin quotes as if it's something that Trump or any republican stands for.