Donald Trump has built a much larger "wall" than the one imagined on our Mexican border...

[kentuck]

It is an invisible "wall".

He has divided our country in such a way that people of different Parties can no longer communicate.

It has become impossible to touch these folks with facts or the truth. They are untouchables.

The "wall" has already been built and it is much larger than anything built with stone or wire.

They cannot be persuaded. They do not see you and they do not hear you. If you are not behind the "wall" with them, then you do not exist.

It has become impossible to break thru. Any attempt to communicate seems like a waste of breath anymore.

There is an alternate reality that does not coincide with truth and facts as we know them. It is a fake world behind the "wall".

[kentuck]

1. I have tried to penetrate the wall with people whom I thought were rational and intelligent...

..but I have not been successful.

[rocktivity]

2. Anti-intellectualism has always been

one of early warning signs of facism:

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Rampant sexism
5. Controlled mass media
6. Obsession with national security
7. Religion and government intertwined
8. Corporate power protected
9. Labor power suppressed
10. Disdain for intellectualism and the arts
11. Obsession with crime and punishment
12. Rampant cronyism and corruption


rocktivity

[Bettie]

11. Fuck...we are so far past the last "early warning sign"

every time I see this list, it makes me nervous and sad.

It also reminds me that the House of Representatives is our last line of defense and they should be speaking in a loud unified voice that this is NOT ACCEPTABLE.

By the next election, it may be too late.

[cutroot]

3. It's a cult

They believe that they are winning and that anything less than total subservience to the master is weakness

[rocktivity]

5. Anything less than total subservience to the master

also forces you to admit to yourself that you've been so wrong for so long.


rocktivity

[cutroot]

7. They will never admit to it

They will attempt to dismiss the allegations as conspiracy as they have done with bush Reagan and Nixon.

[lambchopp59]

4. "More people trust Fox" ... OBEY ...

[samplegirl]

15. They defended Bush/Cheney

In much the same way. Waterboarding. They like death.

[Perseus]

6. The division started before trump, and I am not defending him

But republicans have been dividing the country for a long time, this is not new.

These things do not happen over night, the creature is the result of all the hate, lies, filth that republicans have been spewing for many years, and the level of ignorance in the country. republicans understood, a long time ago, that in order for them to carry on with their agenda, which does not include "making America great", was through ignorance and division. It is not by chance that republicans have been weakening the education system, of course its two-fold for them, one is to disrupt education to have more ignorant people who will believe their lies, and two to put more money in their pockets through charter schools.

But this division is not exclusive to the creature, that he has made it worst? yes, of course he has, but this is a long republican strategy. "United we stand, divided we fall". Can't get easier than that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. And colleges too. Have strayed from

the practice of requiring that the first two years be a liberal arts foundational base? Regardless of major? Republicans may have nothing to do with it. But I can see the difference. An "only learn what you have to learn" mentality - does not foster a quest for knowledge and an open mind.

My niece just graduated with honors in math and literally thought that Chicago was a state. And didn't realize it didn't snow in Florida.

[Perseus]

14. That is amazing...yeap, no snow in Florida, one would think that even a HS kid would know that

Something big has to happen, the mindset of the people has to change, needs to become more progressive.

[MasonDreams]

8. They have been demonizing and dehumanizing us.

And they will continue until the word Holocaust is synonymous with cleaning house. I have seen the unholy maggots that feast on the human brain. Sorry you had to read that, sometimes I get in a really bad mood.

Please call me out, if it is not true.

I have visited the nests where they breed, and I am scared. Never get out of the boat.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Yes, unfortunately you are right. It's like the basic

shared values have disappeared. It is not a good thing to care about your fellow man anymore.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

9. They are blinded by hate

That's why they can't see the truth.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Kentuck..this post is so true. Living in a red state now

And it is definitely true that most people can not be convinced. And I am not talking about unintelligent people either. I am talking bright people who are sharp in many other aspects of their life. It's like a certain part of their psyche has been brainwashed and there is zero awareness or ability to test or research information. There is also an anger associated with it too.

I was in a meeting yesterday with a couple otherwise very sharp people. I said I wanted to go home to watch the rest of the Impeachment hearings. And anger rose. And then "I would consider voting for a Democrat is there was a single thing that they ever did to help the American people!". A statement that could easily be disproved with 5 minutes of research.