I confess, I couldn't make it through the whole debate. I read some of the mainstream columnists' take-aways this morning and it made me wonder if some of them watched the same thing I did? Mark Thiesen, Washington Post, and I'm guessing other 'conservative' columnists, think Trump laid Biden out. Really???
It's the same in the area…
I confess, I couldn't make it through the whole debate. I read some of the mainstream columnists' take-aways this morning and it made me wonder if some of them watched the same thing I did? Mark Thiesen, Washington Post, and I'm guessing other 'conservative' columnists, think Trump laid Biden out. Really???
It's the same in the area I live in. When I hear the locals make remarks about Trump's wonderfulness, his care for their issues (?), I know they've swallowed the whole Fox/NRA/Alex Jones #$#sandwich.
The town I early voted in made the Washington Post this week for some protestors' less than civil behavior. I was surprised it wasn't worse. I still expect to see the 3%ers and the Oath Keepers and the like show up on Nov. 3rd with their AR15s, even if they stand stone silent as close to the entrance to the polls as they can legally get. But I also won't be surprised if they drive through the parking lots, loud speakers blaring Trump praise, loud enough to wake the dead, Trump flags waving, etc.
But even if they push the boundaries and overstep, it won't do any good to 'call law enforcement', because around here, the sheriff's dept. is all in for Trump. The sheriff was heard at a public meeting talking about their plans for when the left-wing anarchists show up at the polls and how they were ready for them.
A friend had the best comeback to a Trumpster I've heard yet. He was regaling her about how Biden would ruin people like him with huge tax increases and she told him we all have to 'vote our own self interest; that his was obviously different from hers, because she didn't make over $400k a year, as he obviously must, if he's worried about his taxes going up.
The same argument can be used for those who rail against the 'death tax". Just smile sweetly and say, "I had no idea you were worth over $10 million! (Or whatever the current cap is). Of course, these are always people who make maybe $30,000/year and have no clue how the tax works.
The key lever to the divide and conquer strategy of American racism, has been to convince the bulk of white people that because their lives were clearly better than those of enslaved people, that therefore they belonged to the class of rich whites and must live and fight (and vote, once they got the vote) accordingly. People fall for it, I'm guessing, because they prefer the fantasy of living in the castle to the depressing idea that they don't have the physical ability to make the castle owners behave better.
Anti-semitism in Eastern Europe worked the same way. The peasants took out their rage against the Jews, even though it was the nobility that was treating them like half slaves. But the nobles were 'we Christians' and the Jews were 'them'.
I confess, I couldn't make it through the whole debate. I read some of the mainstream columnists' take-aways this morning and it made me wonder if some of them watched the same thing I did? Mark Thiesen, Washington Post, and I'm guessing other 'conservative' columnists, think Trump laid Biden out. Really???
It's the same in the area I live in. When I hear the locals make remarks about Trump's wonderfulness, his care for their issues (?), I know they've swallowed the whole Fox/NRA/Alex Jones #$#sandwich.
The town I early voted in made the Washington Post this week for some protestors' less than civil behavior. I was surprised it wasn't worse. I still expect to see the 3%ers and the Oath Keepers and the like show up on Nov. 3rd with their AR15s, even if they stand stone silent as close to the entrance to the polls as they can legally get. But I also won't be surprised if they drive through the parking lots, loud speakers blaring Trump praise, loud enough to wake the dead, Trump flags waving, etc.
But even if they push the boundaries and overstep, it won't do any good to 'call law enforcement', because around here, the sheriff's dept. is all in for Trump. The sheriff was heard at a public meeting talking about their plans for when the left-wing anarchists show up at the polls and how they were ready for them.
A friend had the best comeback to a Trumpster I've heard yet. He was regaling her about how Biden would ruin people like him with huge tax increases and she told him we all have to 'vote our own self interest; that his was obviously different from hers, because she didn't make over $400k a year, as he obviously must, if he's worried about his taxes going up.
The same argument can be used for those who rail against the 'death tax". Just smile sweetly and say, "I had no idea you were worth over $10 million! (Or whatever the current cap is). Of course, these are always people who make maybe $30,000/year and have no clue how the tax works.
The key lever to the divide and conquer strategy of American racism, has been to convince the bulk of white people that because their lives were clearly better than those of enslaved people, that therefore they belonged to the class of rich whites and must live and fight (and vote, once they got the vote) accordingly. People fall for it, I'm guessing, because they prefer the fantasy of living in the castle to the depressing idea that they don't have the physical ability to make the castle owners behave better.
Anti-semitism in Eastern Europe worked the same way. The peasants took out their rage against the Jews, even though it was the nobility that was treating them like half slaves. But the nobles were 'we Christians' and the Jews were 'them'.
Oh, yeah. And this is the area of the country where that mind control first reared its ugly head. And LBJ articulated it 100 years later.
This nails it on the head ^