We are now the enemy

[The Blue Flower]

The creature in the oval office considers everyone who disagrees with him or opposes him an enemy that must be crushed. The majority of the people of the United States are now an enemy to be crushed. I'm wondering how that will manifest.

[TDale313]

1. History has a template for that

and it’s not pretty. Dictators (and he at the very least wants to be one) do not take political opposition well.

[Moostache]

2. they also end up dead at the hands of their oppressed and live in constant fear

FUCK YOU TRUMP, JUST FUCK YOU....

Look up Mussolini, Benito and pay attention to the thrilling ending...history has a way of repeating itself....hope I get to see it do so to you, you worthless piece of shit.

[Adrahil]

18. Just yesterday, I visited Dachau.

Among its first inmates were Hitler’s political enemies. This was in 1933.

[Sugar Smack]

3. Martial law. He's been baiting us with the help of his "team".

The dumb SOB can't wait. That's what he wants.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. As FDR said, "I welcome their hatred"

[unblock]

7. that's easier to say when you're a wildly popular president with 3-1 party support in the house and

nearly 3-1 party support in the senate.


it's a different story when they are the ones with all the power.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. what I mean is that I am at the point of despising republicans in general.

So if they despise me, I feel like I am at least going in the right direction.

We are screwed. I've got nothing. Yes, the elections are an opportunity - but I don't trust our vote counting system's security, and don't feel like we've dealt with the theft of 2016. So...no answers here.

[unblock]

10. Agreed. There's a stirring in the populus, but I fear we have yet to reach bottom.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

15. Their majority lasts only until Nov.

Dems are a majority in this country.

The key is youth turnout- 18-30. Tell all your young friends that they MUST vote.

[unblock]

16. Their majority ended a while ago. But they cheat

Look at South Africa's history. A minority can hold power a long time.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

19. Truth. Coalition of billionaires and identity politics.

With that coalition, the Republicans know they have to cheat to win.

If we manage to save the country (and the entire Western alliance system, with attacks on NATO and the EU, it seems),
the Republican power-first venal fools will look really bad to future historians.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

20. Oh, and we are lucky.

Dems are the majority in the US.

Look at Israel in contrast: right wing leaders and oligarchs (like Sheldon Adelson) have propagandized the Israelis so completely that liberals are a minority there. If that were the US the outlook would be bleak indeed.

But we have a majority! Let’s get them to the polls.

[GP6971]

5. We always have been

it's just more obvious since dotard stole the office.

[CrispyQ]

6. We are the majority.

When a majority of the population is an enemy of the state, then the state has gone rogue.

Resistance is not futile.

[Blue_true]

9. True, but.

The state has vast power and Trump basically heads the state. What we should do is vote out asses off, neutralize him and defeat his in 2020. I truly fear for this country if republicans have control of all of government after the election in November, there will be no stopping the evil that they will bring about. People like George Will, the two republicans on MSNBC who were with the McCain campaign, David Frum, Rick Wilson, former republican members of Congress get it, although they worked mightily to help create the shitpile that we are stuck in. If Trump has his way, their asses will be standing at a wall with us, waiting for the firing squard to fire. Trump is vengeful, he wants destruction of ANYONE that oppose him.
You know what I would like to see? I would like to see George Will, Frum, Rick Wilson, Boehner, et al in campaign commercials for democrats, telling wavering republicans that they MUST vote for the democrat if they have any hope of saving what this country has been and has stood for (with blemishes, but where Trump will take us will be horrifically bad).

[EarthFirst]

11. I'm fine with that...

History will prove that I am on the right side of things.

[apkhgp]

12. How did we become the radicals in this country?

When we wanted to enact policies like Healthcare to help people instead of blindly watching everyone suffer. I guess that is an undying need for Right Wingers, to watch everyone else suffer.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

14. Billionaires needed votes

So billionaires built a propaganda machine to use idenitiy politics to get votes for cutting their taxes.
Hate is the best kind of propaganda. And progressives that wanted to build a social safety net were the enemy.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

13. We've been the enemy since Limbaugh first went on the air

Feminazis
Libtards
Liberal elites
College professors
Unions
Women


The right wing media has been calling us the enemy for four decades. This is nothing new. The right wing propaganda media created Trump, not the other way around. He’s just tapping into the hate they prepared.

[kentuck]

17. Benito Trump keeps referring to "the other side"...

That would be us.

We are the enemy.

[Orsino]

21. I think we've seen exactly how it manifests.

Knee-jerk, flailing attacks that are contrafactual where they aren't just incoherent. It wouldn't matter were he not in the Oval Office, delegating the power of the Executive Branch to some of the worst people ever to ooze across the Earth's surface.

We are fortunate only insofar as he's incompetent and schizophrenic.