We've been treating them like rivals. They've been treating us like enemies.

[LaydeeBug]

and it's time to stop pretending it is some other way.

Part of what makes them so pliable to the right is that they don't SEE *us* as their 'loyal opposition'. They see *us* as their enemy. So if it took cheating...

so be it.

If it took lying...so what? As long as "they" get "their" way. This is why you don't 'reach out' to them. You *tell* them.

Because they LIKE authority. No. Really. They do. They LIKE being TOLD.

This coup continues...

[CanonRay]

1. They treat us exactly as the Russians treat the US

not rivals with good will. Mortal enemies. Took us 30 years to figure this out. They'd sell the whole country out to get power over us.

[LaydeeBug]

3. and they *did*. Tether that chicken. These motherfuckers OWN this.

[Orrex]

2. It is foolishly self-destructive to "reach out to them" or to try to "understand" them

They don't want our outreach or understanding. They want our silence, defeat and subjugation.


Your post is 100% spot on.

[Golden Raisin]

4. They do not understand "high road".

They do not understand "collegial, bipartisan cooperation across the aisle". They only understand a baseball bat bashing into their skulls while simultaneously being tasered. They absolutely view and treat us as enemies. We need to wise up fast.

[bdamomma]

5. Not only being treated like enemies

they truly want us to succumb to their will. Sorry no can do, blood was spilled once to defend our country or brothers being pitted against each other, history does repeat itself Civil War????

[malaise]

6. Precisely

and even when some of us asked whether he could rig it when he was projecting about rigging, folks here and Dem insiders insisted that it could not happen.

Time to wake the fuck up.

[LaydeeBug]

9. absolutely. The world's getting woke.

The coup continues...

[rufus dog]

7. People need to grasp this quickly

It is hard to comprehend, and difficult to think that friends/family can be the enemy.

[dalton99a]

8. Excellent point that many people seem to forget

[LaydeeBug]

12. I think there is a lot of enabling in what they're forgetting. nt

[WinkyDink]

10. "It's terrible to obstruct a SCOTUS nominee!" "Syria is not our fight!" Etc. And we Democrats are

Charlie Brown with the football EVERY SINGLE TIME.

[LaydeeBug]

11. Yep. We walk down the greedia bunny trail too.

They fucked with our election machines. And unless we fucking start to admit it, it will just keep happening.