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bdamomma

(63,975 posts)
1. they will never get the stain
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:19 AM
Jun 2018

of this POS off their hands, gas lighting is being done, and the trump deplorables are believing every word.

 

Trek4Truth

(515 posts)
2. Well RUMP ain't no Hilter. This fool is going to crash the economy before all that will happen.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:21 AM
Jun 2018

PLUS, we have Mueller...PLUS, WE HAVE US...and we are getting louder every day.

 

Trek4Truth

(515 posts)
5. We are already hearing some bad news with these tariffs...Just wait until is starts really hitting
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:29 AM
Jun 2018

in their backyards. I'm thinking there is going to be uproar over this too. This hits R's in their heart....MONEY.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. You're talking about authoritarian leaders and followers.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 10:42 AM
Jun 2018

Probably 30-40% of the human race is authoritarian by nature, the vast majority conservatives.
Liberals aren't authoritarian by nature but some can be persuaded to support an authoritarian leader. The numbers vulnerable to authoritarian rhetoric shrink in good times and are more inclined to flock to and obey those they see as strong leaders in anxious ones.

What happened to Germany has happened in a number of democracies around the planet, where electorates voted to lessen or replace representative government with authoritarian regimes. None were as well entrenched as ours, including Germany's 15-year experiment in democracy imposed by the Versailles Treaty in the very miserable period between world wars. Almost all Germans remembered what it was to live in a nation that was advanced and prosperous under an authoritarian monarchy.

Political experts participating in an ongoing authoritarian threat survey as of March and April 2018 predict (averaged) a "9.1% chance of democratic breakdown in the U.S. within the next four years, and 100% of respondents believe that democratic quality has declined over the last 10 years."

Not good for a nation that once believed it couldn't happen here.

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