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R Mercer's avatar

And people watch this clown show of people with no ethics or character and will still vote R because of teh socialism or teh wokeness or lower taxes or whatver excuse they will use to avoid grappling with the fact of what a horrible group of people the GoP has become.

When your supporters of people of low character and knowledge, you have little choice to becomes someone of low character and knowledge to stay in office. THAT is the scary thing. The rise of Trump and the current state of the GoP are merely exhibit A in the degeneration of the American people and American culture. They are not causes, they are symptoms.

People screamed about Clinton's deplorables comment, yet the ranks of the deplorables seem to continue to grow and become more deplorable--and they have proven Clinton's comment right several times over.

If it wasn't so frightening, it would be hilarious.

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Jane in NC's avatar

Much of the problem, at least with the elected class, is that they've prioritized staying in office over everything else. Maybe they rationalize that someone worse would take 'their' seat, whatever the reason, even people who used to be respectable have proved what Stewart Stevens wrote about is true: when it comes to the republican party, "It Was All A Lie." I'm glad my late, conservative republican parents didn't live to see this travesty.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

What's more frightening is that people of supposedly high character and knowledge are clawing each other to get on board. The ones keeping silent aren't the deporables - those are screaming from the hillsides - but ones like Romney, Pence, Collins, and those people of character, etc. that Trump fired AND ARE KEEPING SILENT!

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R Mercer's avatar

Keeping silent is, in the end, no less deplorable that screaming the stuff from the hilltops. In some ways, it is more deplorable, as at least those foaming at the mouth are, if not good, at least honest in what they are.

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rlritt's avatar

A friend of mine is from OK. Went to visit family there. She said it was shocking. They adore Trump. They want him to take over throw the country. They no longer want it to be the United States. They want his brainless children to rule after him. I thought she was exaggerating. I guess not. It's getting really bad.

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