Every single president would take their weapons and turn it on that whiny little b* in the middle who is trying to destroy, with the help of the party, the America they love. WTF is going on with Republicans. I'm beginning to think that Putin, Trump, et al must have some really, really bad dirt on them!
Every single president would take their weapons and turn it on that whiny little b* in the middle who is trying to destroy, with the help of the party, the America they love. WTF is going on with Republicans. I'm beginning to think that Putin, Trump, et al must have some really, really bad dirt on them!
Never attribute to complex conspiracy and machination things that are easily explained by basic human cupidity, ego, and self-interest--and the short-sightedness that attends those things.
The GoP is pretty sure that it has found a winning combination of things. At this point I am not sure they are wrong. They have (re)discovered that it is more profitable and motivating to pander to base human instincts than the positive human instincts.
This is particularly true in a system like ours where, if you are one of the two parties in a two party system, you have a guaranteed lock on a certain portion of the population that is geographically placed to give you an electoral advantage--and a legislative system that allows you power out of proportion to the population you represent.
I will once more invoke the banality of evil. People usually are not consciously evil, they simply serve their self-interest in a narrow-sighted fashion, with what they think are (if not good) at least reasonable motivations--and then one morning the alarm goes off and you get up and go to your job as a concentration camp guard. Ooops.
I would agree in the past, and that "banality of evil" I think would extend to a good many of Trump supporters. The problem now is the sheer number of people who until Trump may have held opinions I didn't agree with, such as Liz Cheney, John McCain, Mitt Romney, etc., but who had integrity and knew Trump for the liar and grifter he is, could be reasoned, knew that compromise is what makes a country run and integrity. Jan 6 scared them at the time. But now, those people seem to be few and far between and many (most) have caved in to Trump, a man they would have spit on in the past. That's not banality any more. Now, it's "lets see how far we can go before they stop us".
Every single president would take their weapons and turn it on that whiny little b* in the middle who is trying to destroy, with the help of the party, the America they love. WTF is going on with Republicans. I'm beginning to think that Putin, Trump, et al must have some really, really bad dirt on them!
Never attribute to complex conspiracy and machination things that are easily explained by basic human cupidity, ego, and self-interest--and the short-sightedness that attends those things.
The GoP is pretty sure that it has found a winning combination of things. At this point I am not sure they are wrong. They have (re)discovered that it is more profitable and motivating to pander to base human instincts than the positive human instincts.
This is particularly true in a system like ours where, if you are one of the two parties in a two party system, you have a guaranteed lock on a certain portion of the population that is geographically placed to give you an electoral advantage--and a legislative system that allows you power out of proportion to the population you represent.
I will once more invoke the banality of evil. People usually are not consciously evil, they simply serve their self-interest in a narrow-sighted fashion, with what they think are (if not good) at least reasonable motivations--and then one morning the alarm goes off and you get up and go to your job as a concentration camp guard. Ooops.
I would agree in the past, and that "banality of evil" I think would extend to a good many of Trump supporters. The problem now is the sheer number of people who until Trump may have held opinions I didn't agree with, such as Liz Cheney, John McCain, Mitt Romney, etc., but who had integrity and knew Trump for the liar and grifter he is, could be reasoned, knew that compromise is what makes a country run and integrity. Jan 6 scared them at the time. But now, those people seem to be few and far between and many (most) have caved in to Trump, a man they would have spit on in the past. That's not banality any more. Now, it's "lets see how far we can go before they stop us".