A deranged conspiracy cult leaps from the Internet to the crowd at Trump’s ‘MAGA’ tour." ... google "QAnon" ... The world is awash with ignorance, and they are among us everywhere...
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Trump’s Tampa circus proves you can’t reason with his base:
"...let’s not be surprised when 35 percent or so of voters consistently tell pollsters that the president is the victim of a witch hunt or that they agree with every policy position and action he takes. Trump fans’ politics is not the politics of rationality, considered judgment or empirical observation. Blind hatred and unthinking boorishness are not moderated by new facts or observable phenomena. We should stop marveling as his “success” in holding his base as if this were a reflection of his political skill, let alone the efficacy of his policies. Rather, the unbreakable and unblinking devotion of his unhinged base is confirmation that he now must rely on support from people oblivious to reality."
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50 years ago, with the civil right 'war' and the Vietnam 'war' dividing us, such division of sanity was prevelent, but I had hoped we'd outgrown that - become better informed, rational, compasionate... Saddly, and obviously, we have not...<(
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Trump’s Tampa circus proves you can’t reason with his base:
"...let’s not be surprised when 35 percent or so of voters consistently tell pollsters that the president is the victim of a witch hunt or that they agree with every policy position and action he takes. Trump fans’ politics is not the politics of rationality, considered judgment or empirical observation. Blind hatred and unthinking boorishness are not moderated by new facts or observable phenomena. We should stop marveling as his “success” in holding his base as if this were a reflection of his political skill, let alone the efficacy of his policies. Rather, the unbreakable and unblinking devotion of his unhinged base is confirmation that he now must rely on support from people oblivious to reality."
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50 years ago, with the civil right 'war' and the Vietnam 'war' dividing us, such division of sanity was prevelent, but I had hoped we'd outgrown that - become better informed, rational, compasionate... Saddly, and obviously, we have not...
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