(November 18, 2016 at 6:05 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(November 18, 2016 at 5:39 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Anyone that votes for a man that called for a national registry of Muslims needs to understand that they are now an accomplice to hatred and bigotry whether it hurts their feelings or not.
Kind of macabre that we find ourselvs in this situation, really. We're sitting here discussing our bigoted president and the people who -made- him president, worrying about their feelings.
Well, it isn't their feelings I'd worry about............
We on the left blame the media too, but not for the same reasons. He doesn't like criticism that is why he does it. When we talk about the media giving him way too much air time and unduely so, it isn't that we want to stop free speech, but more along the lines of "are your profits that worth it to have him in office", well now we know, the answer is yes. But the media should be warned, we had a blacklist past by force of government in the form of the McCarthy era. Unless the media wakes up, and soon, the way Trump has demagogued and scapegoated, they have to know he will try to use force of law to silence them. He has a majority congress and SCOTUS pics that could in the long term if he got 8 years, do just that.
I'd urge everyone reading this to take this very seriously and not just pass Trump off as an act. He may quiet down verbally, but the way things are shaping, he wont be passive.
The rise to fascism starts by silencing the press.