Is Trump going to Prison?

[TaraJo]

A good number of Trump's GoFundMe donators have the mindset of "I don't want my money going to communist, facist, marxist, socialist programs like health care." Have zero issues bailing out a "billionaire" swindling fraud like trump.

It amazes me that a creature that put itself on the moon, and developed technological marvels like James Webb Telescope, can have these intellectually inept imbeciles employing the exact same device that led to the aforementioned accomplishments.

Right wing media has been brainwashing them with those kinds of talking points for decades; it's pretty firmly ingrained in them by now.  As much as it makes sense to not donate more money to a billionaire millionaire, that's logical thinking and they've been conditioned to think emotionally.  

I don't know how much this went on before (mostly because I didn't pay them that much attention), but since right after 9/11, right wing media like Faux News have been encouraging an emotional response in their audience and that was more important than reporting the facts.  So, for example, it wasn't enough to report that terrorists flew planes into the twin towers; they had to make their audience think that terrorists were flying planes and coming for them and they were about to crash into the side of their house and only the republican candidate could prevent it.  Now they're using similar fear tactics with socialism and communism (and critical race theory, and anything "woke" and transgender people).  

Thing is, fear like that isn't logical.  It isn't our first reaction to think through your fear and analyzing it away through reason; our first, instinctual reaction is fight or flight.  Similar reaction with anger.  The small, primitive, reptilian part of our brains that don't use rational thought are still there and there are malicious people out there who are more than willing to use it against our own best interests.

And to Trump's credit, one thing he's very good at is repeating the talking points from right wing media.  He's been watching them for a very long time, he knows how to talk like them, he knows how to encourage the same kind of unthinking fear and anger that they do.  

So, yeah, republicans make us so terrified of socialism that their sheep will gladly donate all their money to a snake oil salesman because he's the only thing that they think can fight it.