I've known so many of these people (Reply #50)

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Sat Jan 2, 2021, 10:56 AM

PatSeg (45,805 posts)

50. I've known so many of these people

who never showed the slightest interest in politics until they got hooked on Fox News and/or right-wing radio. Seeds were planted in minds that had no political predilections, so it was relatively easy. They played to their emotions and moral outrage using a simplistic good vs. evil message, with thinly veiled undertones of racism and bigotry. It was rather brilliant in a perverse, diabolical way.

It took decades, but the end result, Donald Trump, said out loud what they were thinking all along, "I love the poorly educated", and the poorly educated didn't bat an eye. Sounds like the prequel to 1984.

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55 replies	Author	Time	Post
The Unbearable Weakness of Trump's Minions (The Atlantic) [View all]	highplainsdem	Jan 2021	OP
Uh huh...	Zoonart	Jan 2021	#1
Hopefully it isn't too late for the GOP to pull back from...	Vinnie From Indy	Jan 2021	#2
Trump is just the symptom, I've got family who had	Canoe52	Jan 2021	#22
Condolences on That, Although I Suspect You Have Plenty of Company	The Roux Comes First	Jan 2021	#47
50%+ in Red States	Tiger8	Jan 2021	#53
It's too late.	Person of Interest	Jan 2021	#29
It's WAY too late	Downtown Hound	Jan 2021	#38
Well, Old Age and the Superspreader Events They Seem to be So Keen On	The Roux Comes First	Jan 2021	#48
Years ago the republican party	PatSeg	Jan 2021	#41
This is what I have been saying.	chriscan64	Jan 2021	#49
I've known so many of these people	PatSeg	Jan 2021	#50
Spot on! Great post. Nt	onlyadream	Jan 2021	#54
Thank you!	PatSeg	Jan 2021	#55
Too bad there's no soul in the Republican party to fight for	Blues Heron	Jan 2021	#3
K&R, ".. it is that they are cowards, and that they are weak..."	uponit7771	Jan 2021	#4
They are anti-democratic elected officials who support this attempted coup	malaise	Jan 2021	#5
They need to go	Rebl2	Jan 2021	#12
Precisely	malaise	Jan 2021	#15
May the terminally ill GOP die a quick and painful death, very soon.	Roisin Ni Fiachra	Jan 2021	#6
agree	housecat	Jan 2021	#11
Yes,.. let us make a delicious and delectable beef stew,...	magicarpet	Jan 2021	#7
When all the famous dictators left office,	safeinOhio	Jan 2021	#8
In a cult like movement, not fully and many times not at all.	paleotn	Jan 2021	#20
Seems when it does, it's a close relative.	safeinOhio	Jan 2021	#21
Yep, but never has the original "magic"...	paleotn	Jan 2021	#23
They are playing right into Putin's hands. Destabilizing the United States. nt	Irish_Dem	Jan 2021	#9
The only way to kill fascism is to pull it out of the soil root and all	Mr. Ected	Jan 2021	#10
Good read...nt	Wounded Bear	Jan 2021	#13
There's nothing worth salvaging in the Repuke Party	FakeNoose	Jan 2021	#14
The GOP Brand needs to be Executed. Destroyed. Annihilated. Buried.	Tommymac	Jan 2021	#16
It is more like it has committed suicide	PatSeg	Jan 2021	#42
The only hope for the GOP	Wednesdays	Jan 2021	#17
Good read. This line grabbed me:	c-rational	Jan 2021	#18
Trump is the party and the party is Trump. There can be on successors....	paleotn	Jan 2021	#19
Great article	ismnotwasm	Jan 2021	#24
Until obscene amounts of money are no longer required to attain public office	dlk	Jan 2021	#25
"Russians have bought their way into and have completely infiltrated the Republican Party"	movingviolation	Jan 2021	#44
Luv the headline.	BlueWavePsych	Jan 2021	#26
Its a bad bet by Republicans with bigger goals...	Jon King	Jan 2021	#27
The Republican Party will go the way of the Whigs.	Marcuse	Jan 2021	#28
I will never trust a Republican. Ever.	OMGWTF	Jan 2021	#30
I'll bet they will still use the lies establish in the Reagan years. Big tax breaks to the rich...	usaf-vet	Jan 2021	#31
Republicans must fix themselves. They tried to poison the entire system, but the system still holds.	ancianita	Jan 2021	#32
"patriotic republican" is the biggest oxymoron I've ever heard	MyMission	Jan 2021	#33
I don't see how the Republican Party survives	peggysue2	Jan 2021	#34
"Two sane and healthy political,parties" leaves out the pukes. They are not, will not, can not,	niyad	Jan 2021	#35
It's an Ok article but fairly trite.	gulliver	Jan 2021	#36
The author of this piece	Downtown Hound	Jan 2021	#37
This did not start with Trump.	JackHughes	Jan 2021	#39
"fight for the soul of the Republican party? -- what soul?	vlyons	Jan 2021	#40
First of all, the bet isn't whether any of them have read Nietzsche.	BobTheSubgenius	Jan 2021	#43
Kill the messenger	RecoveringJournalist	Jan 2021	#45
All the bad actors have one thing in common.	Mr.Bill	Jan 2021	#46
Hell the GOP didn't even have a platform this past election.	Historic NY	Jan 2021	#51
When you see or hear TRumpism, just walk away.	UCmeNdc	Jan 2021	#52

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