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In reply to the discussion: A word from HRC about attacks from the left... [View all]Fuzzpope
(602 posts)It's a depressing sight to see how easily it is to subvert the vanguard of the democratic voting public (us) with the base economy of a small handful of trigger topics.
We cannot afford to be manipulated in so predictable a fashion. If bickering and in-figting is your thing, table it until we are safely beyond 2020. Until then, EVERY individual is a vote against a genuine, bona fide Enemy who would utterly destroy you and everyone you knew if they could.
That enemy may have been a Russian bot program, or worse, a human disruption agent.
It may have been your own wife. Or brother, or best friend, who fell prey to the greatest feat of social engineering and psychological warfare in US history, and it didn't happen because that person was weak, or stupid, or even lazy. It happened because this shit they unleashed upon us *just works*, on a simple, gut level that uses your own rationale against you.
But, we are all of us forewarned this time. They will not have the luxory of first strike that they did in 2016, because we know better now.
And if we let that knee jerk descend again and neutralize us in pointless lateral conflicts and frictions against one another, that will be OUR fault, and no one else's.
This is bigger than all of us, what Trump and his cabal have already accomplished in this country beggars description. None of us could have imagined reaching the precipice we are at today, in so short a time frame.
We need each other. We need your support, not your engineered cynicism and witty internet shanks and self indulgence of toxic bitterness. Put useless things aside and find a way to deliver us all to the finish line, to do our part against this century's Great Evil.
Find a way past these things. You have a common enemy, channel your ire against it. Couldn't possibly be easier, just look for the assholes wearing the dumbfuck red hats.