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Augiedog

(2,545 posts)
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:18 AM Jul 2016

Let's face it, Trump is possible only because of extreme right wing media.

FOX, Limbaugh, Hannity etc. they are the Tokyo Roses and Hanoi Hannas of this era. Calling for the surrender of American Constitutional and moral values. They support any and all who would embrace hate, discrimination and misogyny. Where they don't find it, they work to instill it. Resentment is cultivated like a cotton field in the old South. They undermine the American ideal at every turn in hopes of gaining and maintaining legitimacy and power, weakening the very institution they would control. They have finally found their defining leader and candidate and like an insurgency, emplaced him in the Republican Party, befouling our constitutional process and endangering our nation. Bringing shame and horror to the American presidential campaign. Their leader exposes them for the ideological despots they would be if given the opportunity. This opportunity must not befall America or for that matter the world.

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redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
2. The Republican establishment shares the blame for not speaking our
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:25 AM
Jul 2016

Before it was too late. They all just winked at all the birther crap. They got what they deserve

unblock

(52,196 posts)
6. trump was playing by the rules with his birther crap. it was properly coded racism.
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:35 AM
Jul 2016

they only started to worry about him when he departed from the script and stopped dog whistling the bigotry.

their plan is simple. a few fringe people like ann coulter are to be overt bigots but the mainstream republicans express bigotry only with carefully coded language. this makes them appeal to bigots while still pretending to be reasonable by comparison.

trump became a problem when he became both mainstream and overtly bigoted. this blows the cover off the republican fiction that they're not the party of bigotry. of course, they have been ever since nixon's southern strategy, but finally it's too obvious to ignore.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
4. Here here
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:29 AM
Jul 2016
I want to say to right wingers - why do you need people to hate, be separate from, so much? What is it about your identity that is not comfortable without someone to otherize, demonize?

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
9. My Life Stinks! That’s why...
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 12:09 PM
Jul 2016

And I need someone to blame.. and the people I blame? ...you liberals coddle.

Got it? And of course I’ll add... I’m a sick white man over 50..


Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
5. During the Primary every media outlet covered him wall to wall.
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:29 AM
Jul 2016

They thought he was a train wreck no one would take seriously.

Instead he is the train wreck that keeps on wrecking.

unblock

(52,196 posts)
7. well that's the problem. people can't help but stop and stare at the train wreck.
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:38 AM
Jul 2016

and our irresponsible media has effectively brainwashed people into thinking that politics is all about entertainment value, and trump is entertaining. as are wars and investigations and scandals, which is all we ever seem to get.

whatever happened to statesmanship and governance?

spanone

(135,823 posts)
8. since trump announced, ALL media has been his enabler.
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 12:04 PM
Jul 2016

2 billion of free airtime. should be criminal.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
11. fine points and I agree 100 %
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 12:25 PM
Jul 2016

yet I have been going round and round with myself in trying to understand this country, especially a so-called democracy such as we survive in, that could put forward a candiddate like this racist, fascist, mysogynistic republican. Is America this morally and culturally depraved? Has the center of the political spectrum, both left and right been overwhelmed by the tactics of the extreme fringe of the RW? It seems so. It's not just the RW media, they are just channeling Goebbels, so we must also ask ourselves where the people that have voted and will vote for this 21st century Fuhrer and Nazi Party came from and why were they were ignored, in spite of the warnings of Charleston et al, until the RW media could mine their hate so effectively.

It was because the hate and racism only affected all minorities and all women. Yet in the snippets of the RW hate fest in Cleveland that I allowed myself to view showed me that people who should be concerned, minorities and women, are standing side by side with someone who will do his everloving best to bring women and minorities, especially people who are DEMANDING a place at the American dinner table, back into the bygone era that they feel will make America white supremacy great again.

Americans who are going to vote for d. trump are no better than the germans who idolized HITLER. Yet these americans are not suffering an econimic Depression,
nor do we have any Versailles Treaty to take away national pride that has to be restored again. We are the only superpower alleging itself to be a democracy on this planet but again we fail ourselves by being rascist and misygonistic.

d.trump has shown me how deep the racism is in this country. A vote for HRC will be a vote against that hate but I hope the numbers that vote for the nazi will be enough to finally wake up decent americans to a national debate on our anti-democratic issues, like racism. An AA POTUS was voted in, race relations and cultural division are worse than at any time in our country's existence. When HRC gains the WH, watch the mysogyny come to the forefront as virulently and as hateful as racism has come out of it's closet these last 7+ years.

I hope america grows up one day faces and solves our divisive issues.

Augiedog

(2,545 posts)
12. This, in large part, is due to the trickle down legacy of Ronny Raygun. From his opening
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 01:05 PM
Jul 2016

presidential salvo in Philadelphia Mississippi with its racist message to his economic savaging of the middle class thru voodoo economics. Trump is the natural consequence of Reaganism.

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