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Related: About this forumMary Trump on How Republicans Turn FEAR into ANGER to CAUSE CHAOS!! BRILLIANT BREAKDOWN!!!
How the neo GOP have turned their followers (irrational) fear into rage - and how can you contain that? Hint, you can't and ergo the chaos. Excellent analysis IMO.
Delphinus
(11,808 posts)understands.
bucolic_frolic
(42,659 posts)Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)We are literally in a situation where Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie T. Greene (members of Congress) feel they can openly threaten communication companies that legally comply with subpoenas! Our country is turning fascist right before our eyes.
soldierant
(6,647 posts)and no, it doesn't always work. But even on a literallevel, it does work sometimes - not so much to extinguish a fire as to control its spread, but it does work sometimes. It is, both on the literal and on the figurative levels, dangerous. But inaction at ths point is probably even more dangerous, far more dangerous.
zanana1
(6,084 posts)Think of all the videos of those yahoos not wearing masks where they're supposed to, thinking they'll be just fine as long as they have a temper tantrum. Jan.6 showed us that they think they have the power to break into the capitol without any consequences. I think it's a minority that thinks it's a majority.
Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)And, they will stay that way as long as there are no consequences. Look at the open obstruction that McCarthy and Greene are currently getting away with. Why they weren't immediately reprimanded for their actions is very alarming.
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Thanks for the thread Soph.