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Opinion viewed as fact. Fact being redefined as facts and alternative facts, with expectations of both being accepted as valid.
Lies - obvious lies,at that - held as truth.
The dismissal of science.
And some people find this a good thing.
People have free speech but that speech and that right does not mean they are right/correct/factual. Doesn't matter how loud you are wrong - when you're wrong, you're wrong.
It all seems impossible at times. Other times I hope people are trying to change their own small corner of the world, because the right took years cultivating the grassroots and attacking from the ground up, to shape what many Americans think today.
Simply telling them they believe lies won' t change anything. We have to get in there, at the local level. We have to do what the right did - shape from the ground up. In the interim, we need to vote in Democrats - and we really need Trump and his entire administration gone, yesterday. Each day Trump and the GOP are in control, is another day of damage to our democracy and to the people.
Someone called Trump a low information voter who got elected, but it's far worse than that. There have always been low information voters - the GOP/Republicans/Conservatives are not simply low information - they embrace myths and lies and have built an entire political party around those myths and lies. They have built a movement that seeks chaos and destruction. Trump fits right with that because he's delusional himself.
It's not hyperbole to say they are a danger to America.
What I like about the do not normalize Trump thinking is people did normalize Bush and Cheney, and I so fear it happening it again with Trump. And Bush/Cheney were normalized the very moment the first person called torture a policy difference. Honestly, they were normalized the very second we were told to get over the 2000 selection.
I worry that Trump will be allowed to fire people or for them to resign and republicans push the idea that the problems have been resolved. That instead of actual consequences coming from the investigations, that we get an after action like review which says we have to do better next time.
And even if Trump resigns, there is Mike Pence, the theocrat, just waiting like a trap-door spider. A theocrat cannot govern a democracy. No theocrat can. Wouldn't matter who it was - if you think your religion should be the basis for government then you're a theocrat and a threat to democracy.
Pence isn't the solution. Neither Ryan nor Hatch - nor the rest of the line. It's ugly...all ugly.
There is no easy way out of this.
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