Quite agree with what is stated.
However,
WHAT power did ANY American back when FDR perpetrated this SCAM upon the Public did ANY citizen have to stop it or from keeping the government out of your paycheck even if they saw thru the scam and were not fooled by the rhetoric and salesmanship? Hence, they were not duped.
Many might have been. I am confident that MOST were.
But not all. I think Walter is painting with too broad of a brush.
You cannot be duped by something that you have absolutely no ability to change, affect, control, or be FORCED to be part of even if you don't want to.
That is not being duped. That is being coerced and forced....
Just saying....... Don;t disagree about the lies of Congress. That has not changed in centuries. Yes even prior to Lincoln...
If I had a way to keep my money going to the fed I would. But I can't. I am not duped. You are not duped. You are nothing more than a vassel of the state.. with no ability to make ANY change at all. Forced at the end of a gun..... May as well be...