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Cyrano

(15,119 posts)
Tue May 21, 2024, 06:48 PM May 21

He's told us who/what he is. Tens of millions can't/won't hear it.

They can't wait to vote for him in November.

What's wrong with them? How can they not grasp the consequences?

Many are people we know. Some are friends. Some are family.

They believe the lies. The propaganda. The poison.

Are they morally dead?

Didn't they hear him say "vermin," "poisoning our blood," "deport millions," "camps for illegals," "assassination of opponents?"

Mark Twain said: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." I've got to disagree. What Trump and his minions have in mind is an exact repeat of Nazi Germany's Third Reich. When American soldiers entered those death camps, the words "True Evil" became fully defined for the entire world.

Why do I think that Trump and his ilk are capable of this? Because I've listened to what he, and so many of his followers have said out loud. They've told us where they will go if they gain power. BELIEVE THEM.

Can we stop them before any of this happens? I don't know. But the first step is obvious. VOTE!







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Skittles

(153,957 posts)
2. they hear it, they simply APPROVE
Tue May 21, 2024, 06:57 PM
May 21

they KNOW what the fuck he is - all throughout history there are morons who LOVES them some FASCISM

Skittles

(153,957 posts)
14. and THAT is indeed what they fail to grasp
Tue May 21, 2024, 09:34 PM
May 21

all they see is how it benefits them - they fail to understand in the end, EVERYONE is a target

doc03

(35,599 posts)
4. Yesterday Trump quotes Hitler. What kind of insanity will it be next and people
Tue May 21, 2024, 07:00 PM
May 21

still worship that SOB.

Hekate

(91,682 posts)
7. Sorry to say, but they like what he's spewing. Now, people who want democracy outnumber MAGAs, but...
Tue May 21, 2024, 07:05 PM
May 21

But the GOP has spent decades assiduously preparing the way for a takeover by gerrymandering, ethnically cleansing the voter rolls, working the Electoral College margins with 3rd party candidates, capturing the SCOTUS, and more lately, with violence.

We have our work cut out for us — but there are more of us than there are of them, so do not lose heart.

LiberalFighter

(52,150 posts)
8. We know what he plans to do if elected.
Tue May 21, 2024, 07:22 PM
May 21

Let the voters know.
Remind voters what he did in his term.

He does not have the support he had in 2020.

His hardcore supporters are only about 16% of the 2020 voters. The other 30% will not all vote for him. The over one million that died from Covid won't be able to vote for him either.

Biden's campaign will go full drive after the convention. Maybe a bit after the first debate. After the convention is the best time to get the message out.

There will be Republicans and Independents that will switch their vote to Biden.

There will be many of them turned off by Trump. His rallies are smaller than in the past.

We all need to get the word out. Now is not necessary. Use your social media. Just don't post in groups not intended political purposes.

Cyrano

(15,119 posts)
9. Joseph Stalin said:
Tue May 21, 2024, 08:22 PM
May 21

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."

Given widespread voter suppression tactics, and the corrupt laws passed by too many state legislators in far too many (red) states, the fact that we are a majority could be nullified. In short, given the Electoral College, they can steal the election.

Could the Supreme Court stop them? Well, the last time the SCOTUS got involved in a national election was in 2000, when they appointed George W. Bush to the White House.

LiberalFighter

(52,150 posts)
12. That would be more likely in hardcore red states.
Tue May 21, 2024, 08:37 PM
May 21

There are six swing states. Biden doesn't need to win all six. If they are swing states it is likely the election process will be cleaner.

The Biden campaign in conjunction with Democratic State Parties will have plans in place.

JI7

(89,392 posts)
10. What lies do they believe ?
Tue May 21, 2024, 08:24 PM
May 21

Most that support him do so becsuse they agree with him on things like hating certain groups .

 

NanaCat

(2,332 posts)
13. These people have always existed
Tue May 21, 2024, 08:57 PM
May 21

They were undoubtedly around when we were living in caves and banging rocks together for fun.

As for your other queries:

What's wrong with them?


They're stupid and afraid of anything different from them--same as those rock-bangers.

How can they not grasp the consequences?


Why do you think they wouldn't welcome the consequences? Do you really think they don't want an all-white, all-Christian nation of morons, even if it means killing all of the people they hate?

Guess what? They're fine with doing what it takes to get their White Trash Fantasyland.

Are they morally dead?


First of two answers: Yes.

Second of two answers: Many of them never had any morality to begin with. Everything is transactional with them.

Didn't they hear him say "vermin," "poisoning our blood," "deport millions," "camps for illegals," "assassination of opponents?"


Why do you think they would have a problem with any of that? Come on, saying all that is what they love about the guy, because they want the kind of totalitarian dystopia that hates the same people they do, and wants to hurt and even kill them to be rid of them. And that is nothing new for Americans. Did you miss what they tried to do to Native Americans? Or the political movements to ship black people back to Africa? Or how readily Americans accept what amounts to a systematic elimination of black people through vigilantism and even our injustice system that continues to this day?

None of this is anything new, and these people didn't transport to this world through some intergalactic membrane that suddenly appeared in 2016.

THE MONSTERS HAVE BEEN INSIDE THE HOUSE ALL ALONG.

Were you really blind to that fact?
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