How Democracies Destroy Themselves

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Gunnar
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How Democracies Destroy Themselves

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MgmB4FDxKEU
Yet another insightful video from Lucas Bean
Some my favorite comments from the comments section:
Just like the industrialists in 1930's Germany. They loved Hitler because he got rid of the communists. Controlled the trade unions. And made them rich.
And we all know how that ended.
Lindsay Graham predicted the destruction of thec Republican Party if they nominated Dementia Don in 2016, then a few years later, he was weeping on TV, trying to convince people to vote for braindead Herschel Walker. Lindsay Graham apparently was a person with foresight and he transformed himself into a trained seal.
It's ironic his take on the scorpion and fox crossing a stream then the scorpion stinging the fox halfway across and they both drown is spot on true...dmango being the scorpion and Republicans the fox...they knew what he was when they took him in...
I consider myself an educated conservative. I think the GOP has abandoned it's core values a long time ago. If I were the next president I'd order the FBI to investigate every law maker that has visited Russia in the last 20 year.
This is the natural turn of events when a criminal culture (the Republican Party from 1920 onward at least) combined with racists (America First movement of the 1930s on, and Nixon's Southern Strategy welcoming them in), through McCarthy, Nixon, Agnew, Reagan and the evil people who directed the actor, then the idiot puppet Bushes who followed, they made for the ultimate racist, criminal and corrupt party we see today. It was additive. They learned from each other what they could get away with vs weak and complicit Democrats.
As Lucas said:
". . .what is left is not a political party anymore. It is a loyalty club with a registration card. The Republican party does not debate policy anymore; it only debates who is loyal enough to survive the next purge."
Why Maga Supports Trump

As Lucas Bean very credibly pointed out, MAGA consists of broken, narcissistic people who resent not being granted superior status and preference merely for being white. Trump succeeded in revitalizing the waning racial bigotry that had made it possible for Obama to be elected, and showing, tragically, that even a cruel, hateful, militantly ant-intellectual, convicted felon could delude enough American voters to get himself elected. Trump, to the detriment of all of us, managed to reopen doors to racism, cruelty, ignorance, unreason and anti-intellectualism that should have been fully and permanently closed.

As Lucas correctly maintained, anyone offended by this video is a part of the problem and is complicit in ultra conservative and corporate attempts to destroy what remains of our Democratic Republic.
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