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Girard442

(6,065 posts)
Wed May 20, 2020, 10:17 AM May 2020

It is pretty clear that everyone who isn't full-on delusional sees Trump for who he is now.

We have to move forward with the knowledge that everyone who supports him is, for whatever reason, OK with a bull in the china shop at the head of our government.

How you can see those people as anything but evil or nihilistic is beyond me.

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It is pretty clear that everyone who isn't full-on delusional sees Trump for who he is now. (Original Post) Girard442 May 2020 OP
It Cannot Be Done, Sir The Magistrate May 2020 #1
My brother might be delusional - OhZone May 2020 #2
I am having problems keeping old friends who drink the cool aid sellitman May 2020 #3
Back in the Cold War days, the Doctrine was Mutually Assured Destruction. Girard442 May 2020 #4

The Magistrate

(95,241 posts)
1. It Cannot Be Done, Sir
Wed May 20, 2020, 10:21 AM
May 2020

The role of pathology, in history and in politics, is greatly underrated by sensible folks.

sellitman

(11,605 posts)
3. I am having problems keeping old friends who drink the cool aid
Wed May 20, 2020, 11:01 AM
May 2020

The struggle gets worse as we head for November. I know many are ditching friends and family over the Mango Mussolini but outside of outright freaks I haven't yet.

Yet.

Girard442

(6,065 posts)
4. Back in the Cold War days, the Doctrine was Mutually Assured Destruction.
Wed May 20, 2020, 11:22 AM
May 2020

Maybe that will work these days. If people on opposite sides get the idea that a rant will trigger an uncontrollable escalating series of counter-rants and counter-counter-rants that leave not one stone atop another, maybe that could keep the peace.

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