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ck4829

(35,069 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 10:56 AM May 2017

On the continuing devolution of the right wing that has become full gallop since the "election"

Whether it's worship of Putin and wanting "peace" with him so our country can wage war on 1.8 billion Muslims (make perfect sense if you don't think about it), while we're on the subject of Muslims we can also bring up how they seem to think as long as a person who shoots up a school, movie theater, or church and that if the shooter is not of that religion then they can just shrug and say "oh well" and actually think that constitutes a good national security policy, thinking that people who are affected by pre-existing conditions are just "thousands... or maybe millions" of scammers, or being "politically incorrect" or just being shocking for the sake of being shocking.

We are seeing that elections do indeed have consequences, and that goes both ways for both the loser and the winner, we are seeing the subtle transformation of the American right wing into a very disturbing and increasingly psychopathic system that enshrines paranoia, violence, social exclusion, disease and injury as punishment, affluenza, and a love affair with autocracy.

We need to work together, we need to brainstorm, and we need to think beyond the tainted voting process to stop them, people will die because of them, and I don't even want to think what the right will be OK with come 2020... or even 2018 for that matter.

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