That's an American phenomenon, leftists do the same in the US...when it's not the politically correct poor, but those for example who support Trump. Do note the extremely condescending way that so-called liberals often talk about Southern or countryside people as rednecks and hillbillies.It's funny (or it would be if it weren't so tragic) that right-wing anti-democratic rhetoric so often employs the notion of "the mob", the hoi polloi, the unwashed masse — Pfhorrest
So, do you see how more worse it's going to get?But of course, everything the right every complains about is projection, so I should have seen this coming. — Pfhorrest
Yes, being in the presence and company of women his wife not present. Sorry, but four years has shown this is not a good man. As Trump's man in charge of Covid....I'm sure you can name a decent and reasonable Republican, but I cannot
— tim wood
I also have to say I think Mike Pence deserves kudos... never visibly losing his cool. — Wayfarer
The violence that Americans witnessed—and that might recur in the coming days—is not a protest gone awry or the work of “a few bad apples.” It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice. When Trump leaves office, my party faces a choice: We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be a party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them. We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman [who led the mob away from the unlocked door behind which Mike Pence and others were sheltering] or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.
Conspiracy theories are a substitute [i.e. for faith]. Support Donald Trump and you are not merely participating in a mundane political process—that’s boring. Rather, you are waging war on a global sex-trafficking conspiracy! No one should be surprised that QAnon has found a partner in the empty, hypocritical, made-for-TV deviant strain of evangelicalism that runs on dopey apocalypse-mongering. (I still consider myself an evangelical, even though so many of my nominal co-religionists have emptied the term of all historic and theological meaning.) A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism. — Ben Sasse
It has to come from inside the party that’s responsible if it’s going to make any difference. — Wayfarer
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Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Anti-Muslim — Media Bias Fact Check: Frontpage Magazine
Free expression with accountability of some sort seems like a good idea. — jorndoe
Goodbye to Donald J. Trump, the man who wanted to be Conrad Hilton but turned out to be Paris Hilton.
Blistering piece by Ben Sasse in The Atlantic: — Wayfarer
Anyone can see the character of their representatives such as Mitchell McConnell — FreeEmotion
Just to be clear, the received truth is that the Republican party is bad and the Democratic party is good, is that correct? — FreeEmotion
I am trying to figure out how the system works that a free fair election produced Donald Trump in 2016 and then Joe Biden in 2020. Are the voters to blame, and is it always the voters on the other side? — FreeEmotion
The framers of the Constitution did not write it for a two-party system. — FreeEmotion
the received truth is that the Republican party is bad and the Democratic party is good, — FreeEmotion
So if, for instance, 20 GOP senators are absent when the vote is taken, 53 (rather than 67) votes will be needed to convict, or 2 GOP senators + 50 Dems + 1 VP. Only 2 Republicans. Don't be distracted by the kabuki theatre courtesy of Mssrs. Paul, Graham, Grassley, Cruz, Hawley et al; no Putin's Bitch-enabling senator wants to face this vote, and the only out for many of these craven crypto-fascist shits is to be absent on the day ... (quasi-deniably) allowing the US Senate to convict tr45h.The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of TWO THIRDS OF THE MEMBERS PRESENT. — US Constitution, Article I, section 3
A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism.
— Ben Sasse — Wayfarer
To wit: e.g. Evangelical 'vicarious redemption via human sacrifice memorialized by ritual incantations culminating in symbolic cannibalism' dogma is indistinguishable in absurdity from the e.g. QAnon 'pedophiliac cannibalizing lizard people disguised as "deep state" politicians & functionaries' conspiracy ... consequently followed by blindly self-righteous atrocities.Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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