The inability of Americans to recognize insanity and criminality when they see it.

[kentuck]

When people try to tell you that they are crazy as a shithouse rat, believe them.

When they tell you on tape that they want to steal, or want someone else to steal 11,780 votes, then that is criminal. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

When they make a public statement that they want their VP investigated because he refused to help them over-throw an election, there is something not right about that.

When they sit back and watch TV as the Capitol police are beaten up, and enjoy every minute of it, when they could have stopped it, then there is something criminal and insane about that.

When they lie to others and to themselves about something that cannot be proven, then they are not well.

When they attempt to overthrow our government to satisfy the ego of one person, there is something criminal about that. There is no need to study it deeply.

When they say they would like to pardon all the criminals that attacked our Capitol, they are insane.

When they are able to persuade others to commit mail fraud and forgery, by mailing in fake ballots to the National Archives, they are criminal.

Americans seem to be incapable of recognizing this criminality and it is killing us.

[dchill]

1. They "recognize" it in people who don't have it.

[bullimiami]

13. I think they recognize it fine. They are just evil liars.

And they don’t give a s.

There’s decent people and indecent people. This exposed their weak spined immorality.

[dchill]

14. I know. It's just projection, as usual.

[uponit7771]

2. Unnnn, I go with the "if these people were Muslim or black... " theory in regards to what Americans

... see cause when folk or anything but white, male, rich, hetero and Christian things go different for them in this country

[brush]

3. Great way to lay it all out on the table, Kentuck. It is of course insane and criminal.

There have to be legal consequences.

[Irish_Dem]

4. They know what it is, they just don't care.

They will look the other way with the promise of white supremacy.

[Saboburns]

11. Even worse than that.

They know what it is-absolutely.

They just don't care-absolutely.

AND THEY WANT MORE OF IT. They DEMAND more of it. And fantasize about worse, truly wicked stuff.

These are not misguided people. These are truly evil people.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Yes I totally agree.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Authoritarian personalities

They want to bow down to an abuser / strongman just like thier daddies were who ruled the house though terror..but they want a bully leader to tell them its okay to be an asshole and not have consequences because the ruler gives these weak minded dolts "permission" just like hitler did with his followers

The followers want to spill blood ,control and terrorize.tfg knows this he knows these empty petty vengeful weak people want to get revenge on the world but these dispicable losers
want immunity from consequences and those they harm so they do it behind dear leaders coattails and attacks what daddy hated.

This dynamic wont end until child abuse is ended.

[ibegurpard]

7. Did you ever listen to Dr Laura?

There seemed to be a huge audience of masochists who would call in and wllingly submit to being berated by her. Yep authoritarian personalities.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. Yeah I remember dr. Laura

It was great when the porn photos she did were posted online and destroyed her career.
😹

[Mr. Ected]

6. They're living in a "What If" world of reality

There is a Truth. And then there is a "What If this is Truth instead?"

That's the basis of their politics. It pulls us from our Magnetic North as we chase his imaginary dragons around the kingdom while he rapes and pillages with impunity.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. The problem with this kind of insanity, is that it's communal.

And money and racism were the inducer.

[BlueTsunami2018]

9. They recognize it, they just don't care.

They actively want this. They want a white Christian nationalist dictatorship. They would happily kill us if they could. They’re no different than radical Islamic theocrats.

[CaptainTruth]

12. And most of the ones who do recognize it seem unwilling to do anything about it.

The patriots of our nation have gone from throwing tea in the harbor to sitting in the comfort of their homes & complaining on social media.

If we lose our democracy it will be because of our collective complacency.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. Kentuck, you gave good examples of fascist and Russian traditional methods of.....

population mind control. We're easy to control after we've been emotionally and mentally numbed with daily floods of bullshit.

I've long held that many Americans in particular have become devoid of emotion, empathy, fundamental morals and common sense. Everything they see now on TV and social media is subconsciously just entertainment in passing, no matter how horrifying the event. We express shock, yet it's gone in milliseconds.

After WWII, we've been saturated with extremes of behavior in advertising, movies, games and TV shows. I'm old enough to remember when even moderate violence or vulgarity resulted in TV or radio stations being flooded with calls of objection.

All the above results in the slow cancerous destruction of community, humanist morals and our emotional connection to fellow-man. Nowadays, if I voice concern about a neighbor's well-being, some say I'm being nosy whereas 50 years ago, it was being a loving friend.

The entire world's population need to be vaccinated with massive does of humility to get our feet back on the ground.

KY rant done.....

[kentuck]

17. I think you are right.

How many movies do we see nowadays where somebody is standing at the urinal taking a piss? What does that add to the movie or the conversation? When did they start doing that?