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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn J6, Kevin McCarthy called the one person he knew had control of the mob & could call them off:

riversedge
(80,809 posts)SheltieLover
(80,454 posts)Cha
(319,067 posts)Slithery Kev.
republianmushroom
(22,325 posts)DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)All the Republicans that encouraged him and condoned his horrific behavior and grifting, all the way up to that J6 insurrection, and most Republicans STILL DO........
THAT is the thing to focus on, not necessarily just Trump...
Trump wouldn't have lasted a week in office if it weren't for the Republican Party and in particular the Republican Senators........
cilla4progress
(26,525 posts)agree
rubbersole
(11,223 posts)DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)is the True NET-NET, BOTTOM LINE, of the entire fucking Trump nightmare.........
When W, (actually Cheney) was corruptly installed in office, I started eliminating all of my Republican Friends and Family.
By the time I had finished the first year of Trump's corrupt installation, I had completely removed every last person I knew who was a Republican from my life...........
The way I see it, every last Fucking Republican Voter is my enemy, and going all out destroy us. They are voting to destroy themselves also, but they are obviously too fucking ignorant and stupid to even begin to see it.....
There are many things we need to do to fine tune this nation's Democracy for the future.
1) Remove the Electoral College
2) Re do the TWO senators from EACH state. As it works now, one vote in Wyoming, So Dakota, No Dakota, equals 1500 votes in California.
3) Repeal the "CITIZENS UNITED" nightmare legislation.
Those three would be a great first step..............Citizens United is the biggest thing and could be done simply by repealing it.
We are LITERALLY, one millimeter away from a "CORPORATE FASCIST TYRANNY". Once they accomplish that, it is a forever thing.....
rubbersole
(11,223 posts)The rw echo chamber goes back to Limbaugh/Ailes and AM radio consolidation. My brother swallowed the 'fake news' line for everything not fitting the Murdoch propaganda viewpoint. Heartbreaking, actually.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)if they understood this RW shit and Voters........All of them said that there was much discussion in the mental health world that appears to be brainwashing, and if so, how.
They all agreed, that watching Fox News and listening to Limbaugh and RW Radio 24/7/365 as their only "news" source had in fact done exactly that brainwashing. They said if you watch FOX as your only news source, it will effectively cause a person to appear to be brainwashed.
One of them said that the first time it was observed and recognized being brainwashing was during the Korean War.
The NorComs would take our POW's and re-indoctrinate their entire belief system in 30 days. They were able to take a strong healthy U.S. Soldier and in just a little over three weeks reduce him to a blubbering child, all curled up in an infant position....Many of the POW's would commit suicide..............
It was most blatant in Limbaughs broadcast. The opening of every show he would talk about some political issue.
His next words were: "Let me tell you how to think about this, so you can be intellectually superior to all those Libtards and FemNazis.