Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists you need to worry about, not someone from another country, they're right in your backyard, running multi-billion dollar corporations, and holding office.
Your oppression is their profession
"Since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known."
The “ unthinking masses” !!unfortunately. How do you solve that? I know Castro and Chavez attacked education and tried to dismantle. Nothing like an uneducated, powerless with no critical thinking diminishing middle class, to entrench a (left-right) authoritarian regime.
Between this and a @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social piece earlier, I'm left to recall the Feds pursuing Plucky Purcell and always referring to him by the occupation listed on his tax returns: "that damned magician." (iirc)
How fear can be used by politicians, religious leaders and rabble-rousers to manipulate the population into committing acts of ultraviolence. https://youtu.be/-gjE41E60_4
Conservatives always need a boogieman. Before trans people and immigrants, it was gay people. Before gay people, it was Muslims. Before Muslims, it was African Americans. Before African Americans, it was communists. Fear and anger are the only things that keep conservatives relevant.
I'm not sure about it. The democrats were fearful enough IIRC.
No, what the GOP offered is not fear. It's hate. Pure unbridled hate, cruelty, pettiness, jealousy, contempt and superiority complex. The old "own the libs" thing.
Everyone was riding high on the fall of the USSR. The good guys had won and then Sept 11th terror attacks came. All at once, the United States demonstrably understood that not only did people not like them, that some groups wanted to kill American citizens. The euphoria was over.
We all know what they're doing; that's why we voted for the smart woman for President. The real question is how do we stop the looting of America that's currently in progress.
He was also describing the US political climate of 1990. That's the sad part. Because it was obvious 30 years ago. More than 30 years ago. And yet, here we are
Skinny Legs and All. Love the TR. Try juxtaposing his brilliant short “The Genius Waitress” next to this current U.S. administration for some more fun!
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Your oppression is their profession
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2ncpSyWgAA2seB.jpg
But damn..people forget Halloween is only a con in America.
For other people it's a sacred holiday (although it's not called Halloween so I guess I'll have to learn to separate them)
DEI
Immigrants
FBI
Trans people
Media
Science
Education
Equality
On and on. Whatever works.
The low minded will always eat it up
*https://bsky.app/profile/therealjackhopkins.bsky.social/post/3liggzx5kcs2x
No, what the GOP offered is not fear. It's hate. Pure unbridled hate, cruelty, pettiness, jealousy, contempt and superiority complex. The old "own the libs" thing.
JFC he nailed that one.