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Jamie Baldwin's avatar

I’m not sure the folks who drank the MAGA Kool-Aid are all that different from anybody else. We’re susceptible to such derangements. It’s like the folks given opioids after surgery who become addicted and are completely overcome by the addiction. We’d like to think it couldn’t happen to us, that it’s some defect in them. I’m not so sure that, under some circumstances anyone couldn’t be corrupted. We need to be vigilant and to understand what happened to folks duped by the MAGA fraud.

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Gailee Walker Wells's avatar

Were they duped, or is he their excuse to let their brand of freak fly?

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Roland (CA->WA)'s avatar

Most Republicans were staunch advocates of the Whites + Males Rule society long before 2016. My dad‘s favorite presidential candidate of all time was Mitt Romney, and then later John Kasich. To these people, like my dad, Trump was just the latest standard-bearer of what I call the Neanderthal society, the leftovers from Nazi Germany and the Confederacy.

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Gailee Walker Wells's avatar

I don't believe John Kasich ever spoke up for toad. We even considered him. My parents were lever pulling Republicans. I wish they were here now so I could experience their views. I have never voted for a party. Always for the platform as an independent. But with both Bushes, I have only supported the Democrats. So few seem to get that women like Hilary and Nancy are truly gifted leaders. I think it is because they are so strong. Which in men, would be a credit but in women is a liability.

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Roland (CA->WA)'s avatar

Sexism is an even deeper problem in this country than racism. Proof of that is we had Obama as president and we don’t have a woman yet. Multiple, multiple countries in Europe have had one or more female leaders of government. This is a backward country. The USA is a laggard. The next step is a woman who is POTUS. We already have Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris, so that’s the one major glass ceiling left, except for the Senate and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

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Gailee Walker Wells's avatar

I absolutely agree. So sad most Americans aren't aware of the quality of life there is not that of other countries. And the trumplets threatening to leave are not aware that the countries they are thinking of moving to have the things Biden is working to provide

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Jamie Baldwin's avatar

Yes, but for him, they might not have gone there. He brought out the worst in them. It’s a devilish business. Makes me think of that Emily Dickinson poem. (764, I looked it up. My reading, in this context: In this life, action is unavoidable and irreversible, so be careful what you do, how you commit.)

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Pensa_VT's avatar

They were systematically brainwashed in rallies, twitter, and fox entertainment. He used all tactics in the playbook of tyrants, very successfully.

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Gailee Walker Wells's avatar

But it didn't happen to us. That's the difference.

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