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TygrBright

(20,760 posts)
Mon May 17, 2021, 07:28 PM May 2021

The GOP has a fig leaf problem.

Just about everything they do is motivated by fear.

Fear of people "different" than the terrified whiteboiz and their enablers: Racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc.

Fear of their own inadequacy and inability to cope without structural privileges: Greed, violence, etc.

Of course, they can't admit to those fears.

So each self-justification involves a fig leaf of "patriotism" or "law and order" or "protecting the unborn" or whatever.

And every time their hypocrisy is exposed for what it is, the fig leaf gets a little smaller, and a little thinner.

Which... isn't good, for them. Eventually, there will be no fig leaf left, and what that exposes, won't be pretty.

Pretty small, but not pretty.

contemplatively,
Bright

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The GOP has a fig leaf problem. (Original Post) TygrBright May 2021 OP
Can we speed that process up? PLEASE PortTack May 2021 #1
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