Why are the republicans backing away from this? They've spent the last 30 years screaming about how terrible and evil and horrible and wrong the government is, the democrats and everything. This is what they've asked for. This isn't a recent thing. Rush Limbaugh was talking like this back in the 80's. There was G Gordon Liddy who started spewing the same kind of crap in 1992. Fox News spouts this kind of ridiculous talk every time you turn them on. Infowars and Breitbart are nothing but this.
Trump is at fault, sure, but he's an idiotic fall guy. He's nothing more than the manifestation of every insane conspiracy theory that's been promoted by right wing propaganda. Blame Trump, but blame the lunatics that promoted the ideas that inspired him. It's a crime to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, so shouldn't it be a crime to yell "government tyranny is going to kill you" to millions of people? Are we not going to hold them accountable for the frenzied rage they've whipped up into these people?
This seriously worries me. If we don't get a handle on this kind of nonsense, we're just going to have another fascist in the White House in a few years and this time, it will be a competent fascist. Next time, when he attempts a coup, he'll be successful with it.
Trump is at fault, sure, but he's an idiotic fall guy. He's nothing more than the manifestation of every insane conspiracy theory that's been promoted by right wing propaganda. Blame Trump, but blame the lunatics that promoted the ideas that inspired him. It's a crime to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, so shouldn't it be a crime to yell "government tyranny is going to kill you" to millions of people? Are we not going to hold them accountable for the frenzied rage they've whipped up into these people?
This seriously worries me. If we don't get a handle on this kind of nonsense, we're just going to have another fascist in the White House in a few years and this time, it will be a competent fascist. Next time, when he attempts a coup, he'll be successful with it.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama