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Carol Fletez's avatar

This is what we keep pointing out to people day after day and still they, believe his lies, enough to create these real poll discrepancies. I'm anxious about asking WHY do they believe him?

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Dutch Mike's avatar

They WANT to believe him. They want a "strong man" to fix everything for them.

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Sherry Miles's avatar

Right. Life is too hard and confusing, and IтАЩm too tired to thinkтАФif I ever knew how to begin with.

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Dutch Mike's avatar

You nailed it.

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Jon Margolis's avatar

I was making calls for Kamala yesterday and one of the people in the Zoom room noted that TrumpтАЩs supporters pick out what they like about him, and ignore (or repress) the rest.

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Susan Shiery's avatar

WhatтАЩs to like about him? The person has not one redeeming quailty.

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Sherry Miles's avatar

ЁЯШЮ

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bruce glick's avatar

Christopher Browning wrote this in his recent NYR article, тАЬHitlerтАЩs EnablersтАЭ which reviewed several books on how Hitler came to power. It describes for me what has happened in this country as well:

тАЬThe lost war, [WWI] revolution, unjust peace settlement, economic chaos, and тАШhuge social and technological changeтАЩ were so intolerable that they led to a rejection of reality by many Germans. And they supported Hitler because he gave тАШvoice to this flight from reality as could no other German politician of his time.тАЩ This тАШhostility to reality translated into contempt for politicsтАЩ that in turn destroyed the тАШminimal common groundтАЩ that democracy needs to function.тАЭ

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Mabel Gerquest's avatar

At 93 I can remember all you

have pointed out even though I was a child and my

Birthday is тАЬD DayтАЭ!!!!!

Maybe loudspeakers in every corner of our confused land would help to

remind citizens hat happened then and could

happen now?!

DT and Hitler have similar

Childhood/Father backgroundsтАФтАФneed I say moreЁЯе┤. Mabel G

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Dutch Mike's avatar

Ouch. That is so very spot on...

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Sherry Miles's avatar

тАЬHeтАЩs better on policyтАЭ or some such empty parroting.

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WILLIAM CASH's avatar

But they can never tell you what the policy is.

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Susan Shiery's avatar

Same when you ask what the good is that they think he has done! I never have gotten an answer to that!

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