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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Half the country is certifiable nuts? As in so certifiable we should send them to the psych ward or medicate them, or both?
You are talking, for round numbers sake, 150 million.
Do not worry, don't try to answer this... fallacy. Suffice it to say that saying shit like this is a good step into creating the other, so familiar to any who has looked into how GENOCIDES occur.
As I said, there is significant, but very small minority, of people who are mentally ill... that is party or politics independent. These are the people who end up medicated, homeless, talking to themselves in the streets, and even in psych wards...
By the way when Weiner (true name for Savage) brought out that nonsense, I pointed to a few RWers the error and problems with that kind of thinking
May I suggest some deep reading into the creation of the enemy? There are oodles of books on this... usually they are concentrated on war time conditions, but might hint to you why this is a problem. Perhaps, suffer me for a second, I am far more sensitive to this idiocy since dad survived the holocaust and I debriefed survivors of another Genocide, one that I will grant you, outside Guatemala and a few in Mexico, is all but known.
Talking about the victims of such as mentally ill, or worst, was part of it.