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In reply to the discussion: UPDATE Shameful Missouri State Fair stunt smears Obama [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Garbage In. Garbage Out. And they prosper by their prejudices as well. It gives them permission to run people off, take their jobs and land, or work them for slave wages. That's how large landowners have accumulated land in the past. It still works. They make conditions so unbearable for 'the other' whoever that is going to be that they leave. Or they submit to conditions that city people would not. At least that's been my experience. All things are in the control of a few families and if you ain't one of them, watch out. I'm talking really rural. I also noticed that the law enforcement had turned into more of the old time type that extort money off of travelers. And there isn't much civilization in some areas. So traveling through is not as safe as it is once was at one time; more like no man's land. Certainly not everywhere, but when you're in a place like that, you can feel it in your bones.