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Initech

(106,134 posts)
16. Look at who his supporters are.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 12:22 PM
Feb 2017

It's no secret that it wasn't any demagogue you can think of that turned out in droves in the election. You know who it really was that overpowered the progressive movement? It was the anti-PC crowd that turned up in droves. It was the racists, white supremacists, it was the people like Milo Yiannopolous and Richard Spencer. It was Breitbart. It was Infowars. It was Prison Planet. Just yesterday the SPLC announced that it was monitoring 915 hate groups across the country and that new ones were springing up faster than they could track them! America's neo Nazis said they were "emboldened" by Trump's victory. Kentucky governor Matt Bevin invited the leaders of 130 churches to the governor's mansion to explain why they needed to overturn the Johnson Amendment! It's the very thing that's keeping us from being a religious totalitarian fascist theocracy, and now they're coming for it. The idea that "the left has been energized" is something we definitely need to latch onto. But what's even scarier is that hate and the anti-PC movement is on the rise in this country. If we want to get out of the woods, we need to tackle this issue head on. We cannot let the anti-PC crowd and the white supremacists take over this country. We're in for a long fight if we do.

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the stupidity of the Sarandon Play boils down to "destroy the village to save it". KittyWampus Feb 2017 #1
The only people who advocate "the worse the better" are those most able to weather the worst. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2017 #2
Sure, but that was only a good argument before Trump one. StubbornThings Feb 2017 #4
Hopefully, things will suck so bad the people will turn to us, hopefully... DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2017 #5
You are correct if you are only talking about the Presidency, but... StubbornThings Feb 2017 #3
Yes, there is more than the Presidency at stake. alarimer Feb 2017 #7
Which ignores the millions of people who think Trump is just awesome. ismnotwasm Feb 2017 #12
There will always be 30-35% of Americans that are ignorant, bigoted, or stupid. StubbornThings Feb 2017 #14
I hope so ismnotwasm Feb 2017 #17
It didn't work in 2016 mythology Feb 2017 #18
What didn't work? There was no President Trump in 2016. StubbornThings Feb 2017 #19
"After Hitler, us." forjusticethunders Feb 2017 #6
Wow.....that says it all. Soooo stealing that. nt msanthrope Feb 2017 #10
Not to mention when you're a hyper-religious nation as we are, you're more prone to dystopia. HughBeaumont Feb 2017 #8
true, the whole point of 'spare the rod and spoil the child' starshine00 Feb 2017 #9
Besides the fact it's the political equivalent of magical thinking? ismnotwasm Feb 2017 #11
Even if it rallies the progressive base... qdouble Feb 2017 #13
Sarandon and those who share her beliefs are morons. Paladin Feb 2017 #15
Look at who his supporters are. Initech Feb 2017 #16
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