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In reply to the discussion: America is kind of scaring the shit out of me [View all]DFW
(54,370 posts)34. This is Fox Noise as the Sorcerer's Apprentice
As an arm of the Republican Party, Fox obviously wants one of their own to be their candidate. They liked Trump as long as he stirred the waters and drew more of the crazies out into the open, but they definitely did NOT see him as their ultimate standard bearer. They just built him up to bring out voters. Oops. Not THOSE voters. Now that he has been more successful than they ever imagined, they are freaking out, as their Frankenstein's monster has turned out to be a creation far more dangerous to themselves than they ever imagined. As with Goethe's Sorcerer's Apprentice, "Die ich rief, die Geister, werde ich nun nicht mehr los (the spirits I have summoned, now I cannot be rid of them)."
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the change goes back from before trump, but he is ramping them up to new levels.
hollysmom
Dec 2015
#8
Cruz is appealing to all non liberals who arent part of the establishment or system.
randys1
Dec 2015
#55
That, my friend, is one apt observation: calling for fascism to save their privilege
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2015
#91
no, it is simply that the veneer has been pulled off, and the horrible, ugly, racist, ignorant,
niyad
Dec 2015
#66
Yep, exactly! They now have a flashy savior in Trump who pretty much tells them all of their hatred
RKP5637
Dec 2015
#56
No. They are paid actors. Doesn't anyone remember the RumpHole buying people to attend rallies?
erronis
Dec 2015
#57
Someone called my comparison of today's America to Rwanda in 1993 "hyperbole"
GliderGuider
Dec 2015
#13
“The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2015
#24
Have you noticed that the more sunlight he gets, the more followers show up? More like weeds than
jtuck004
Dec 2015
#74
Ironically, ARTE TV (a French/German channel here in France) ran a compelling and pertinent,
Surya Gayatri
Dec 2015
#43
I kinda thought k-12 would have provided some level of sanity for our society by now.
Ivan Kaputski
Dec 2015
#50
Scare the shit out of you IS the strategy of the clown show. Mayhem is their only chance, and they
L. Coyote
Dec 2015
#71