WH lawyer told Trump that Flynn misled FBI and Pence

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12. I think he would be more so, Marylandblue. Pence is the personification

of the fusion of authoritarian religious fervor and authoritarian service to the wealthy that has taken over much of the right. This does not equate to morality, and for sure it does not equate to imprisoning powerful men to protect young impoverished girls who seduce them with their young bodies.

Btw, did you know that slave markets have sprung up in Libya, a way of monetizing helpless, needy emigrants blocked from continuing to Europe? Cultures vary, but conservatives have the same basic emotional wiring no matter where they live. The natural order means those who have are thus proven worthy and those who do not have are not. That goes for Jews and young girls. It's an extreme example, but "good" strong-right conservative people there undoubtedly consider this regrettably understandable the same way too many "good" strong-right conservatives here consider teen prostitution regrettable but understandable. The unworthy are victims of their own unworthiness.

I didn't make this up. I learned it by setting out to understand from those who studied what was going on in the minds of my coworkers and neighbors. Underlying everything is a disbelief on the right in the principle of equality and a belief in an overall beneficial natural order that approves the need for kissing up and kicking down.