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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswho the fuck do conservatives think they are that when they win, they win...when we win, they win?
They manipulate and cheat when they win elections - they tend to take advantage of the small population states, rural votes, and no longer can win popular vote - as well as goodness knows what.
We win by a landslide - and they just project their behavior onto Democrats - and claim victory?
Take a big step back and just think about how incredibly, totally fucked up this is.
I am starting to hear from friends - one a veteran, one a long time friend, neither of them remotely conspiracy types - that are truly visioning the end of our Democracy.
I've resisted this - hope that the norms hold, that SOME republicans will get their head screwed back on...
But...who or what is behind this insanity?
And if - IF - I repeat if - somehow the orange asshole wrests this election away from its rightful winner and maintains power, it is hard to imagine what will happen - what should happen, really - is the part of the country that still has its senses ready for the implication? Ready to become active and take a stand?
I confess I just can't go there yet. But we've still got two MONTHS of goodness knows what to ensure given that January 20 will be a much happier day (my birthday - that is a present I am craving - Joe Biden as our president)
elleng
(130,825 posts)msongs
(67,381 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)payment, to me, set the stage for even worse behavior.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)unblock
(52,164 posts)They think democrats are (somehow) so evil that anything they do to prevent us from advancing our agenda is morally justified.
After all, what's a stealing and election compared to "murdering unborn babies" or "promoting the sin of homosexuality"
They can't fathom that their god might actually want a democrat in charge. They think their good should give them all the toys they want.
KPN
(15,641 posts)brother. He has said, and actually written exactly that to me.
mountain grammy
(26,607 posts)Demon Democrats.. I've see it over and over. I was listening to a historian who said the hatred and demonization reminded him not so much of Nazi Germany, but of Rwanda.
Ponietz
(2,956 posts)is eerily reminiscent of, 1930s Nazi party propaganda.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)KPN
(15,641 posts)reference?
Solomon
(12,310 posts)Ponietz
(2,956 posts)"President Trump, perhaps inspired by Goebbels and the propagandists of the Third Reich, seems to employ this tactic that the bigger the lie, the more obscene the injustice, the more dizzying the pace of this bizarre behavior, the less likely we are to be able to do something about it."
Beto ORourke
https://www.axios.com/orourke-goebbels-perhaps-inspired-trump-rhethoric-df284f0f-d93e-46ec-a142-dff219b0fd12.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Nazi_propaganda|
jalan48
(13,852 posts)world wide wally
(21,739 posts)jalan48
(13,852 posts)KPN
(15,641 posts)SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)MasonDreams
(756 posts)I've watched these goons for 40yrs. Nothing today is off the trail they've been on all along.
I can't believe the schoolyard bully is still taking my lunch! Doesn't he know I'm hungry?
OMG WTF We need an investigation. Subpoena these people, make them lie to everyone on TV.
Don't look now, but I suspect they are using bad judgement when they pick their judges.
This water I'm in seems to be getting hotter and hotter.
sprinkleeninow
(20,235 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,235 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,829 posts)smh... meh.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,168 posts)....declare no investigations, and we have to move forward to "heal" the nation.