An idea with respect to t-Rump - just came to me listening to The World on NPR Radio.

[NRaleighLiberal]

They described t-Rump's latest rally. Talked for 40 minutes - blah blah blah - win win win - look at me I am great - I made all this money type of stuff, no policy - the crowd was described as bored.

Last 20 minutes - "who pushed these murdering lazy immigrants here? We need a wall. We need to keep them out. Blah Blah Wall Blah Blah scary people deadbeats losers Wall Wall"

The crowd wakes up.

t-Rump is appealing to the huge swath of the country that sits being scared shitless out of their wits by all of the garbage that our propagandized media is puking out at them each day and night - including right wing trash and fear radio.

If anything proves to me that we are a scared shitless country, it is the bizarre relative popularity - the fact that he can even dip his little toe into the water of potential presidency - t-Rump.

It is, in a way, Palin popularity of the last election in a differently packaged, equally bizarre and faulty package.

And as a country, we should be ashamed that people like this can even be spoken of in the same breath as offices such as vice president and president.

[Angry Dragon]

1. for years the republicans have used fear as a rallying cry

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. yup. just when you think it can't be ratcheted up any more - it is.

The sad thing is that so many fall for it.

[Angry Dragon]

5. I think it is because for so many years the American people have been

beaten down about everything, they feel they have no voice, they have seen their lives go down hill.
They wait to hear someone tell them who is to blame.

[dembotoz]

3. the paranoia is astonishing

here is fire engine red part of wisconsin


the black and the mexicans are invading tonight.


i would be funny if they were not armed

[Eleanors38]

4. It's cheap. It's Easy. There is no opposition.

[Solly Mack]

6. No low is too low for a country that tortures.

And the guilty were allowed to remain free - unchallenged and uncharged.

A large portion of the country has long been proven to be scared - to be cowards in every sense of the word.

T-Rump's popularity is no surprise. Not with all things considered. To include the years and years of appealing to the worst in people by rightwing politicians.

[unblock]

7. home of the brave we are, yes indeed.