Ok, playing devil's advocate, if the 🍑 menace had so many votes and has so many followers you would expect the DC mall to be packed, but we know that won't be the case. This election was rigged, and not just with misinformation.
I point to it as the #1 reason for all of this. It’s designed to keep people addicted to their screens & to fuel all of the hatred the tech bro’s & politicians behind them need to maintain power.
Yeah kinda did, white militias, kkk, cops shooting people in the back, neo Nazis , evangelicals, anti gay and anti abortionists etc etc etc. maga has many names and been around since 1776
Yes. I remember how many people voted for Dubya, and for Reagan before him. The country's slide into open fascism has been obvious for a long time. Eisenhower, FDR and Jefferson all voiced warnings.
Well, I always thought that 50% of the population was not very intelligent and thus prey for some con man, uniformed if you will, and not seeking information from any factual realm. The question is how do you get the herd to follow what's in their best interest? The ratio is unlikely to change.
In the That sucks kind of way. Just realizing that the confederacy never ended or lost its fan base. No other country on this planet has celebrated evil like Americans do. 1619 started a trend that never lost its appeal in America. Boiling a human in a cauldron still excites too many Americans.
Of course. Because America idolizes its president and qualifications mean nothing in the face of celebrity. America immunized the president against any all criminal charges. The constitution and laws are flawed but nobody cares. Thus….
Not so much was hidden. Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings? Mass shootings? Jerry Springer? Serial killers? The hate and ignorance and cult mongering was always obvious.
Understand, though, that the existence of those people is deliberate. Governments over DECADES have overseen poor social and public services (health, education, welfare, law and order) while Fox News has drip fed hateful propaganda directly into everyone's homes.
No. I'm a lefty-libertarian and a progressive-pragmatist and I've worked with and even for Republicans in the past who seemed dedicated to liberty and ending corporatism and gatekeeping. Inside the "freedom" movement is a very dark freedom for us, but not you, movement. Those assholes are scary.
I had no idea there were so many people in our country who are without an understanding of basic economic principles.
Sadly, these people are the ones who will suffer the most under the heel of this administration.
Before MAGA, I was blissfully ignorant of the broad hatred and deep stupidity that exists in the people we have been living along side all these years.
I'm afraid that hatred and stupidity will never be buried deep enough to ever miss again.
The world hated / hates America and Americans because it was / is not blind to the grievance and hate and narcissism that existed always and that tourism made sure was advertised. Anti-Americanism is a thing and for a reason. Slavery? Jim Crow? Charlottesville? Not a good look but reality unveiled.
Not at all. For the longest time I felt like we were progressing towards a nation of acceptance and understanding for one another. Then Trump showed up and it all went out the window.
That I think is the real issue here. How did so many people, for so long go unnoticed and unrecognized, and feel that their issues were not being addressed by our government?
Okay, maybe but, who would have ever thought they'd fight to destroy their own lives and their families lives? No, no one would have thought that, would they? 🤯
That's like asking, "Who are the REAL stupid motherfuckers: stupid motherfuckers, or stupid motherfuckers who can't believe all y'all're some stupid motherfuckers?"
Because to some of us -- the "woke" ones, I guess -- it was always obvious as fuck that we were trapped in the "Allegory of the Cave".
In 2003 a professor I had gave us a 3-hour lecture on the current presence of the KKK in USA, & right here in CO. He’d been a consultant in the movie ‘Gettysburg’. It was a mission of his to warn us of our complacency. So, yes, I’ve known for a long time. As a teacher I taught ESL w a DEI approach.
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Before Social Media, did you have any idea….
I point to it as the #1 reason for all of this. It’s designed to keep people addicted to their screens & to fuel all of the hatred the tech bro’s & politicians behind them need to maintain power.
I wasn't expecting it to be quite so scary though.
This coming tuesday, let's storm the BH ( Black House ) and cast him away.
Hang him publicly.
He is a massive traitor.
Sadly, these people are the ones who will suffer the most under the heel of this administration.
I'm afraid that hatred and stupidity will never be buried deep enough to ever miss again.
.but now my eyes are OPEN...I cannot Unsee it🤬
But then again
Maybe 😢
Because to some of us -- the "woke" ones, I guess -- it was always obvious as fuck that we were trapped in the "Allegory of the Cave".