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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 08:28 PM Feb 2019

I wonder, has the gas-lighting and constant MSM normalization of rump and friends

gotten to the point that if Barr fired Mueller, if Barr hid the report, if Barr stopped any justice from occurring, that we would NOT react the ONLY way that would save the democracy?

Would 60 million of us go into the streets and stay there until the traitors relented?

Or would we just say it is another day. Which it would not be, it would be the "last" day.

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I wonder, has the gas-lighting and constant MSM normalization of rump and friends (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Feb 2019 OP
I don't think enough people would do enough. CousinIT Feb 2019 #1
You'll find a lot of people who have no idea who Barr and Mueller are The Genealogist Feb 2019 #2
I know. Most probably. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2019 #3
Apathy and ignorance are both major issues in this country The Genealogist Feb 2019 #5
For 60 million of us to not go to work on Monday, Trump would have to shut down the Facebook machine Volaris Feb 2019 #4
My friend the professor would love this post. I will show him. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2019 #6
Note all the Trump voters now showing remorse only since they got f*cked by the IRS... pecosbob Feb 2019 #7

CousinIT

(9,238 posts)
1. I don't think enough people would do enough.
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 08:45 PM
Feb 2019

I'm not even sure they could at this point.

It's most likely too late.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
2. You'll find a lot of people who have no idea who Barr and Mueller are
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 08:48 PM
Feb 2019

You'd probably find a shocking number of people neither know nor care who is president.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
5. Apathy and ignorance are both major issues in this country
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 08:58 PM
Feb 2019

Some people would rather watch Big Brother or cat videos than all that boring government stuff.

Of course I know other people who don't know and don't care about it because they are just beat down by life. My stepmother comes to mind. She always votes (she is a Democrat) but she never paid attention to the news and current events. She fought a long commute to and from a job where her employer treated her like garbage for over 30 years. She came home at night to a house full of screaming kids and bills she could barely pay. Her mother was judgmental. She hadn't the self esteem to consider looking for another job. I imagine she is not alone.

Volaris

(10,269 posts)
4. For 60 million of us to not go to work on Monday, Trump would have to shut down the Facebook machine
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 08:54 PM
Feb 2019

That would do it. Not much else.

We don't have the moral 'courage' for anything less than that.

'they invade our space, and we do nothing. They attack our ships, and we withdraw. They assimilate ENTIRE WORLDS...and we fall back.
This far; no farther. The line must be drawn HERE.'

And unlike Jean-Luc, we do not have it in us to INSIST, I think.

pecosbob

(7,534 posts)
7. Note all the Trump voters now showing remorse only since they got f*cked by the IRS...
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 11:07 PM
Feb 2019

It would seemingly confirm this...

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