The best resistance is positive persistence. Russia wants us to despair.

[sharedvalues]

A principal goal of propanganda is to create despair. To encourage people to give up.

We are right on the cusp of a massive action by Mueller.
Bob Corker, senior GOP senator, isn't running again and has launched a full out attack on the president.
Steve Bannon is blowing up the GOP from the inside.
NY AG Schneiderman is pursuing state charges and defending healthcare too.
More Americans than ever are realizing the GOP has been taken over by a few billionaire oligarchs like Koch and Mercer.
The electoral commission Trump created to suppress Democratic and minority votes isn't getting much traction.
A ton of great D candidates are running in local and national elections.

This is a great time to be a Democrat.

We all need to work to stop voter suppression and show everyone how Fox and Limbaugh propaganda hurts America. But I am very optimistic.


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Here's an example of how propaganda, like what's coming from the Russians right now, is often designed to induce despair and get people to lose faith.

https://books.google.com/books?id=mJiYllDc3JgC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=propaganda+despair&source=bl&ots=JaXDTXJYSm&sig=1xEkc6sBIPlgktyBeACckPjd2fQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixrpuvxPPWAhUFPiYKHbOABwgQ6AEIWzAM

"Propanganda of despair sought to dishearten and discourage Japanese soldiers, and inspire a sense of hopelessness and defeatism..."

[Madam45for2923]

1. Kicking!

[orangecrush]

2. I think Mueller

Is going to blow the lid off.

[sharedvalues]

4. Mueller hired several white shoe law firm attorneys

Top flight criminal attorneys don't go work for the government in an investigation like this for nothing. They are taking massive pay cuts. This will be the case of the century and they know it.

[orangecrush]

7. I ferverently hope so

This is a counterintelligence case as much as a criminal case.

Liberal Democracy hangs in the balance.

[sharedvalues]

13. No question.

In the meantime we can all work on stopping GOP voter suppression.

Turnout favors the truth, Democrats and liberal democracy. Let's get as many Americans voting as possible.

[orangecrush]

15. Will do!

[Irish_Dem]

3. Trump is seriously damaging the GOP. Let's hope it is totally DOA. nt

[lastlib]

11. I want to stomp the last GOPher into the ground.

Won't rest until ALL the worthless rodents are exterminated. Then I got a few graves to p1ss on.

Mueller is the best hope for giving us a stake to put through the heart, but it's up to us to drive it in and twist it until the critter's dead. That is gonna take shoe leather and elbow grease on our part, and every-f*cking-body has to GET OUT AND VOTE! Stare down their intimidation, it's hollow. Fight off their voter suppression, because our forebears worked too hard and gave too much to get it for us. The power of the people is irresistible--IF we RESIST! Be a RESISTOR!

[murielm99]

5. I don't see many people giving up.

We may be distressed and despairing, but many of us are taking action.

I don't think we will get everything we want right away. It won't all come together in 2018. Two steps forward, one step back. Sometimes, we get our way and take three or four steps forward.

[sharedvalues]

6. Yes! Slow but steady forward progress wins the race.

[CentralMass]

8. I'll have some of what you are taking.

[bdamomma]

9. Russia is trying to break our will

it won't work. Bannon is a key player in this again he is a Leninist.

[sharedvalues]

12. Bannon is a failed producer

Who is currently self-destructing the GOP.


Remember, everything Bannon does is backed by the Mercers.

If you haven't seen this investigative piece on Milo, Bannon, Breitbart and the Mercers, it is a GREAT read.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism

[bdamomma]

14. Thank you

I will read this. I just put it in my favorites.

[mac56]

10. K & R