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Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
Thu May 7, 2020, 12:58 PM May 2020

Republican Operatives Push Democrats to Corral their Dangerous Bullshit

Republican Operatives Push Democrats to Corral their Dangerous Bullshit

It’s a continuous cycle: A crises appears, either a natural disaster or a disaster worsened simply because of Republican ineptitude and inaction. Their extreme laziness and lack of skill and empathy, coupled with an evil desire to disrupt and capitalize disaster response, dictates their tailored and sinister reactions to crises.

The main goals of any Republican response to emergencies are twofold: First, siphon off tons of taxpayer money for themselves and their rich donors. Second, do a half-assed attempt at helping the People.

The first action of getting their hands on a lot of nearly untraceable money is obvious, greedy capitalism. They exploit any opportunity to raid the Treasury, and it’s easy during a crises. This action also causes “debt and deficit” issues that can be used later against Democrats as an excuse for cutting Social Security, for example.

Second, Republican failings at opportunities to be merely competent in helping the People during crises management is even more devious than the money grubbing. By flopping at disaster response, Republicans know caring and skilled Democrats will always step in and corral their lacking and dangerous bullshit attempts at helping Americans through hard times.

After Democrats inevitably step in and take charge of Government help, Republicans begin their propaganda campaigns of declaring Democratic help as “Government Overreach”, and “Taking Away Freedoms”. These actions cause gullible Americans to distrust and fear Government and Democrats, thus giving anti-government operatives more reason to push second amendment and anti-Democratic issues.

When crises arise with Democrats in total control, the “Government Overreach” propaganda is easy to pull off and exploit. When Republicans have the White House, it gets a little tougher to pull off the “Overreach” Con. Then, the divide-and-conquer Con is used. Republicans are using this Con right now by dividing America along political lines with regard to individual States response to the Covid 19 crises.

Republicans are attempting to convince the country they want to open up America for business, but the “Big Government, Freedom Stealing Democrats” just want to hurt poor Donald Trump in his quest for reelection. Republicans also want to continue an irrational fear of Democrats controlling their lives. This fear mongering enables weak, no-action Republicans to thrive in the environment they love dearly, an environment of anxiety, suspicion, and a distrust of Government.

Trump and associates are skilled propagandists. They can only win by twisting truths, cheating, lying, and also by exploiting natural cultural and political differences in the populace by selective issue-amplification and saturation advertisement. These exploited differences are hard to spot without a recognizable physical attribute and Trump wants differences to stick out, so look for the act of wearing PPE, or not, to be exploited by the President and his operatives as a tool of division.

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Republican Operatives Push Democrats to Corral their Dangerous Bullshit (Original Post) Baked Potato May 2020 OP
We sensible people need a break Freddie May 2020 #1
Better yet, both of them. Dale Neiburg May 2020 #2
Well done! pandr32 May 2020 #3
The only thing I disagree with is this Downtown Hound May 2020 #4
It's not just stupidity. crickets May 2020 #5
Actually, Putin is the skilled propagandist... stupid people just make it easier for him. Talitha May 2020 #6

Freddie

(9,265 posts)
1. We sensible people need a break
Thu May 7, 2020, 01:04 PM
May 2020

Like Trump or Pence getting it from the valet. And getting very, very sick.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
4. The only thing I disagree with is this
Thu May 7, 2020, 01:27 PM
May 2020

"Trump and associates are skilled propagandists." They're actually not. They're terrible at it. The only reason they're successful is because a large portion of the American public is so pathetically stupid.

crickets

(25,966 posts)
5. It's not just stupidity.
Thu May 7, 2020, 02:06 PM
May 2020

Combine the damage done to education in the US over the past few decades with the constant drumbeat of disinformation from FOX news and the propaganda just needs a little nudge now and then to keep chugging along with a life of its own.

It's depressing and it's infuriating watching people fall for it, but I don't blame them entirely. The likes of Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are very, very good at brainwashing people.

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