So tell me how you really feel!

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-contrast-in-character.html

Not having lived my life under a rock, I have no frame of reference to explain anything that's led to the development of an "extreme right" with the capability of gathering the kind of support that it has. And when I run into someone I know who thinks this way, my first thought is, "How did that happen?"

[Rebl2]

1. Not sure

either, but feel like it started back in the early 1980’s with Reagan.

[LoisB]

2. Agree. "States rights" speech near Philadelphia, Mississippi where Schwerner, Goodman, Chaney

were murdered.

[electric_blue68]

4. Of course I knew about these three civil rights being murdered...

but I didn't know till years later that that's where he kicked off his Presidential campaign. That was no dog whistle to those in the South, or Northern racists.

[IbogaProject]

3. 1950s Eisenhower administration

During the Eisenhower administration under cover of the cold war hysteria the GOP brought in thousands, I've once seen reference to several hundred thousand former Nazis and German conservatives to rebuild the GOP and fill our military buildup.

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. A person is smart...

(I would say that this is why. It is like a form of brainwashing thanks to social enforcement. Some people just cannot handle standing out in a. crowd.)

[BWdem4life]

6. Wow, the article begins with a quote from DU.

Imagine being so stupid that you look at [Trump] this treasonous, traitorous, totally corrupt, self-serving, ignorant clown, this racist, semi-illiterate moron, this sexually-assaulting, pathologically lying, feeble-minded, morally bankrupt, constitutionally-illiterate simpleton, this bloated nitwit with his cotton candy hair, radioactive tinted skin, and obese dishevelment and think, "Now this is a guy I really admire." --Democratic Underground Post by 634-5789