heavyblinker
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers I know that it seems to be the liberal hobby of the 21st century to discredit anyone associated with the GOP or the Trump white house, but seriously folks, this is a bit much. Just that whenever possible and as a new political culture, Reagan began a steady political diatribe to discredit, denigrate even insult all of those in the middle and the left as either PC, socialist, communist, out to destroy the country and all of the way to calling mere dissent, something required in a republic...traitorous. Faction is the goal here. Faction born of dissent that those in power use to further divide, those in society jump on and will long term...be the end of our republic just as in Greece and Rome. This has been FOX News' thing for quite some time now... it's not new. Remember when every other week there was a story about high school students wearing right-wing slogans on t-shirts and being punished? Instead of it being about specific individuals, it was about 'liberal bias in the education system' and 'the left's assault on independent thought'. Ordinarily, Trump's behavior itself would be enough to discredit the GOP and the Trump white house-- I wish we could have faith that the RWNJs had enough basic decency and intelligence to see this, but the simple fact is that if they did, Trump wouldn't have been elected in the first place. For me at least, the scariest thing about 11/9 was realizing that a deep, terrifying stupidity has a significant presence in America. It cannot be reasoned with, has no sense of decency, and openly, unapologetically craves destruction, division and hate. I feel like all of these attempts to take Trump down are rooted less in partisanship gone wild and more in that sense of helplessness and fear that you might just be surrounded by people so delusional they are going to ruin everything you love about society and even the planet as a whole. Sort of like 'reason won't work... we need to stop this insanity NOW'... but of course, the desperation makes it all seem that much more futile.
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