The Reality of Living In A Regime Is the Question: Now What?

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19. +1

Yesterday there was a thread where people with our grim outlook were accused of being right wing trolls. It was a generic call out, no one specific, but I don't understand the optimism some people continue to have that the Con is going down. What I see in many of my friends is a dangerous form of American exceptionalism that "it can't happen here." That somehow our republic is immune from what other republics have suffered.

I think George Lakoff nailed one of our party's biggest problems in his book, "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think." Dems appeal to voters based on logic and intellect. Repubs appeal to voters based on emotion. So catchy phrases like trickle-down-economics and no-child-left-behind appeal to the emotional voter, even though the GOP policy names don't accurately reflect the actual policy, they leave some voters feeling good. The party of family values. Think how much the GOP has cashed in on that one, & their claim that they are the party of God.

Americans need to sharpen up, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. There's a reason the right focused on filling positions on Boards of Education back in the 80s.

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
~Karl Rove

Also, we were fools to ignore hate radio for 40 years. And we still do, but now it's expanded into Fox and social media. I give our chances of surviving Trump/Barr/McConnell about 20%.