Post by midcan5 on Aug 4, 2023 8:33:53 GMT -5
The thing I find most amazing about Trump is how he has changed the Republican party and American politics. How does one man, a failure in life and marriage if it wasn't for his father's money, Russian support with his real-estate, along with a base of so called 'religious Christians' come to control so many minds? This control is so strong no Republican can even call him out for his misdeeds and corruption? If someone told you a convicted rapist was America's president a while back you'd think them crazy. But today what you see is a partisan emotion so strong many would destroy our democracy and our country.
'Everything has fallen off a cliff': Battleground state GOPs nosedive in Trump era'
www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387
"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil
'It’s no secret that right wing extremism has been on the rise over the last few decades in the United States, a militia-based movement that came to forefront of national consciousness on January 6, 2021, as an unruly mob stormed the Capitol Building. We talked to Luke Mogelson, author of The Storm is Here: Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, about what it all means, and where it might be going.'
lithub.com/luke-mogelson-on-the-far-right-the-militia-movement-and-the-threat-of-trumpism/
"Humans universally make Us/Them dichotomies along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, language group, religion, age, socioeconomic status, and so on. And it’s not a pretty picture. We do so with remarkable speed and neurobiological efficiency; have complex taxonomies and classifications of ways in which we denigrate Thems; do so with a versatility that ranges from the minutest of microaggression to bloodbaths of savagery; and regularly decide what is inferior about Them based on pure emotion, followed by primitive rationalizations that we mistake for rationality. Pretty depressing."
nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/why-your-brain-hates-other-people
'Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst' by Robert M. Sapolsky
'Everything has fallen off a cliff': Battleground state GOPs nosedive in Trump era'
www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387
"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil
'It’s no secret that right wing extremism has been on the rise over the last few decades in the United States, a militia-based movement that came to forefront of national consciousness on January 6, 2021, as an unruly mob stormed the Capitol Building. We talked to Luke Mogelson, author of The Storm is Here: Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, about what it all means, and where it might be going.'
lithub.com/luke-mogelson-on-the-far-right-the-militia-movement-and-the-threat-of-trumpism/
"Humans universally make Us/Them dichotomies along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, language group, religion, age, socioeconomic status, and so on. And it’s not a pretty picture. We do so with remarkable speed and neurobiological efficiency; have complex taxonomies and classifications of ways in which we denigrate Thems; do so with a versatility that ranges from the minutest of microaggression to bloodbaths of savagery; and regularly decide what is inferior about Them based on pure emotion, followed by primitive rationalizations that we mistake for rationality. Pretty depressing."
nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/why-your-brain-hates-other-people
'Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst' by Robert M. Sapolsky