Republicans have just one strategy. -- Give 'em someone to hate!

[Cyrano]

"Hate the Blacks." Hate the gays." "Hate the Jews." "Hate the Muslims." "Hate the immigrants." "Hate the THEMS."

Republicans have nothing else to sell. Hatred is it. It's their only product. It's the one that's been used by tyrants throughout history. And it works every time.

They don't need a majority to buy into it. They need just enough of a minority of malcontents, racists, bigots and fools to buy their poison. What happens then is what we're seeing around us today. A society that they have torn apart and over which they eventually want to rule.

Everyone knows the saying, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Well, let me paraphrase that by saying, "... is for good people to do not enough." And we're not doing nearly enough. While we're trying to figure out how to win elections, they're setting up ways to steal them. We're playing by a set of rules that mean nothing to our would-be "conquerors" and "owners."

I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. But like it or not, Republicans have taken us to a very dark place.

It's our move.

[Walleye]

1. There are none so stupid as those who refuse to think

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. They would sell "rich people are your betters...

…and should own EVERYTHING in this world including you and your family”, but that just doesn’t resonate.

So the next best thing is sow hatred and fear…break up what would otherwise be a united opposition.

[usonian]

3. It's a cult. Hate unites cult members.

[Cyrano]

4. This "cult" has tens of millions of members. They are a threat to,

not just us, but the entire world.

[AnnaLee]

5. It seems to work for enough people that

they don't see the need for much more.

I agree that it is over time that something was done to assure their failure. I wish I knew what that something was.

[Escurumbele]

6. That is the methodology that all totalitarians use, they need to find an enemy that they

can turn the focus of the people on, where they can create division and hate.

Have you noticed how republicans jump from enemy to enemy? If one enemy stops working, then they must create a new one. A few years ago it used to "islamophobia", but it stopped working, now its gays and "woke" people, even so that republicans cannot define or characterize in a meaningful way what "woke" is.

Totalitarians need enemies to rally their masses, and when they don't have them they create them.

[Hekate]

7. As the great LBJ pointed out...

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon Johnson

Someone to look down on — anyone to look down on.