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31. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 01:54 PM

Dec 2016

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

-Hannah Arendt

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.

-Dante Alighieri

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To ignore evil is to encourage it.

-DSB

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Are Deplorables traitors too? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 OP

I wonder how the deplorables feel about their leader being Putin's cuck. LonePirate Dec 2016 #1

+1 Pholus Dec 2016 #28

Didn't we know before the election that Russia hacked the DNC? forthemiddle Dec 2016 #41

They've heard from the get-go tRump's ties to Putin and his soft words for the dictator. BlueCaliDem Dec 2016 #2

Most of them are too stupid to be proper traitors... TreasonousBastard Dec 2016 #3

"Useful idiots" is the appropriate description. Pholus Dec 2016 #30

This is just crazy ... DaleFromWPB Dec 2016 #4

Do the voters who gave Hitler pluralities in the 1932 and 1933 German federal elections get a pass? DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #5

You can't just assume that every Trump voter is the same person el_bryanto Dec 2016 #11

Lots of illiberal people will vote for liberal politicians if there is something in it for them. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #14

Possibly - Do you believe that humans can change or improve el_bryanto Dec 2016 #16

Most of the research suggests people are fixed in their beliefs... DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #18

Nods - So I've read as well, although I have a hard time accepting it el_bryanto Dec 2016 #19

If they aren't convinced by what is about to happen, I don't think anything can convince them world wide wally Dec 2016 #17

They voted for a racist bigot,fuck them and any crys of innocence. libtodeath Dec 2016 #6

I don't want them to suffer. To be candid I don't know what I want to happen to them. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #8

"Do you have loved ones who voted for Trump who you KNOW are NOT racists/sexists/bigots? " DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #10

I have friends and loved ones who voted for HRC and would qualify as deplorble loyalsister Dec 2016 #46

The real issue is that Trump won DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #48

If you want to really take on the bigotry loyalsister Dec 2016 #49

I want to take on bigotry... DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #51

Nor can any Democrat who thinks it is isolated to Trump loyalsister Dec 2016 #52

Nice pep talk. world wide wally Dec 2016 #12

Actually, we need to figure out ismnotwasm Dec 2016 #15

LET'S QUIT EXCUSING THESE IDIOTS nini Dec 2016 #35

I wasn't making these posts after Bush* was elected and re-elected. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #36

Same here.. I didn't think they would do anything that would take 2 generations to undo nini Dec 2016 #37

I was sorely disappointed but I never felt our experiment in self governance, however flawed... DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #38

They're in denial if they think the worst can't happen here nini Dec 2016 #40

America is so large and diverse that any attempt to forcefully pacify it would end in its ruin. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #42

The problem with the nose holding is the republicans were too and they will ..... Jim Beard Dec 2016 #43

Some of them are.....no poll option for that. Of course it's the usual suspects. TrekLuver Dec 2016 #7

They knew he was a snake when they joined him. femmocrat Dec 2016 #9

It depends. If they choose Russia over this country, yes they are. Vinca Dec 2016 #13

Can we use even more alienating and dehumanizing language? RedWedge Dec 2016 #20

Do you have kind words for the Germans who gave Hitler DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #21

I just feel like I don't have enough options to consider on this poll. RedWedge Dec 2016 #22

I should have added indubitably. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #23

I really feel like you could sweep farther and much more generally. RedWedge Dec 2016 #24

"By their fruit you will recognize them..." DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #25

Don't just aim high, DSB. Aim HIGHER. RedWedge Dec 2016 #29

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #31

Now that's what I'm talking about! RedWedge Dec 2016 #32

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #33

Stanley Milgram tells the tale loyalsister Dec 2016 #47

In a word, yes! On second thought, Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2016 #26

not literally, but figuratively treestar Dec 2016 #27

Their politics are treasonous MountCleaners Dec 2016 #34

I would say more like stupid and uninformed demosincebirth Dec 2016 #39

I agree mostly stupid. Jim Beard Dec 2016 #44

I wonder what Lyndon would make of Trump. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #45

They will support TrumPutin even as they Ilsa Dec 2016 #50

woohooo JCinNYC Dec 2016 #53