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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:16 AM Mar 2020

These millions of abnormally normal people

Graphic mine

Yeah. Love me some Huxley and if MAGA'ts were normal people they would not have adjusted so comfortably to the abnormality that is a Trump Presidency... heh.

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These millions of abnormally normal people (Original Post) Soph0571 Mar 2020 OP

Excellent Insight! ewagner Mar 2020 #1

Thank you :-) Soph0571 Mar 2020 #2

ewagner

(18,967 posts)

1. Excellent Insight!

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:59 AM

Mar 2020

I think Huxley's thesis was that people could be controlled by "pleasure" as easily as controlled by "pain"....

In a sense, the MAGA people get an adrenaline high from watching liberals "suffer"..to them, that is their pleasure and they cannot seem to get enough of it...

comfortable abnormality indeed!

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)

2. Thank you :-)

Reply to ewagner (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 09:13 AM

Mar 2020

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