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There was a time when the two major political parties in America could exhibit bipartisanship by moving across the aisle to compromise on the issues on which they were legislating. Tried and true Republicans who favored small government, lower taxes, and national security could find a middle ground with Democrats who pushed for things like universal healthcare, higher minimum wages, and progressive tax reform. There were largely two sides to the issues and some areas for compromise.
This is no longer possible in today’s sociopolitical climate.
Cult thinking includes ardent adherence to group thinking such as – clinically speaking, in the face of distorted thinking we ask about one’s strength of conviction by querying, ”Can you think of other ways of seeing this?” Sadly, what we are seeing publicly is ‘No’ from those who still subscribe to Trumpism/MAGA.
Here are a few examples in today’s socio-political environment in which cultism has contributed to a lack of middle ground.
There is no middle ground on treasonous, conspiratorial, fraudulent behavior – these are crimes and, arguably, the worst crimes one could commit against their own country.
There is no middle ground on slavery.
There is no middle ground on allowing Americans to die through inaction in response to natural disasters and global health crises.
There is no middle ground on gunning down school children or wearing an AR-15 rifle pin and throwing away a pin to remember a Uvalde victim.
There is no middle ground on jeopardizing national security and retaining and sharing classified documents.
There is no middle ground on breaking campaign finance (i.e., hush money schemes) laws.
There should be no middle ground on tolerance of crime, period.
And so many know this. Tim Scott, Jim Jordan, and Marco Rubio (the last two having gone to law school), all know this and are smarter than they are acting – which takes us back to cult dynamics – if you are a dyed-in-the-wool cultist or pretending to be a cultist – but the outcome is the same – harm to the Country and its people – there is no difference. Whether you actually have a personality disorder or are pretending to be a sociopathically or psychopathically disordered person – if the result is the same – harm to your constituents and your country – what’s the difference? As noted in the opening paragraphs, there is a voluntary submission to cultism – Rubio, for example, identified all of the reasons why the 45th President was not qualified when he himself was running for President in 2016. However, perhaps due to his own intolerance of uncertainties in his life, volunteered for Trumpism.
More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-neuroscientist-warns-we-re-wa
tching-the-largest-and-most-dangerous-cult-in-american-history/ar-AA1eP9mH
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
There was a time when the two major political parties in America could exhibit bipartisanship by moving across the aisle to compromise on the issues on which they were legislating. Tried and true Republicans who favored small government, lower taxes, and national security could find a middle ground with Democrats who pushed for things like universal healthcare, higher minimum wages, and progressive tax reform. The abortion issue in America has been an area of debate between the parties as they debated elements like when life begins, is a heartbeat a heartbeat, and what to do about post-birth abortions (which is murder and not actually a thing). There were largely two sides of the issue and some areas for compromise.
This is no longer possible in today’s sociopolitical climate.
Cult thinking includes ardent adherence to group thinking such as – clinically speaking, in the face of distorted thinking we ask about one’s strength of conviction by querying, ”Can you think of other ways of seeing this?” Sadly, what we are seeing publicly is ‘No’ from those who still subscribe to Trumpism/MAGA.
Here are a few examples in today’s socio-political environment in which cultism has contributed to a lack of middle ground.
There is no middle ground on treasonous, conspiratorial, fraudulent behavior – these are crimes and, arguably, the worst crimes one could commit against their own country.
There is no middle ground on slavery.
There is no middle ground on allowing Americans to die through inaction in response to natural disasters and global health crises.
There is no middle ground on gunning down school children or wearing an AR-15 rifle pin and throwing away a pin to remember a Uvalde victim.
There is no middle ground on jeopardizing national security and retaining and sharing classified documents.
There is no middle ground on breaking campaign finance (i.e., hush money schemes) laws.
There should be no middle ground on tolerance of crime, period.
And so many know this. Tim Scott, Jim Jordan, and Marco Rubio (the last two having gone to law school), all know this and are smarter than they are acting – which takes us back to cult dynamics – if you are a dyed-in-the-wool cultist or pretending to be a cultist – but the outcome is the same – harm to the Country and its people – there is no difference. Whether you actually have a personality disorder or are pretending to be a sociopathically or psychopathically disordered person – if the result is the same – harm to your constituents and your country – what’s the difference? As noted in the opening paragraphs, there is a voluntary submission to cultism – Rubio, for example, identified all of the reasons why the 45th President was not qualified when he himself was running for President in 2016. However, perhaps due to his own intolerance of uncertainties in his life, volunteered for Trumpism.
More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-neuroscientist-warns-we-re-wa
tching-the-largest-and-most-dangerous-cult-in-american-history/ar-AA1eP9mH
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Oh, get fucked.
It's easy to talk about other people being in a cult when you don't recognize that you're in one yourself.
I don't sit here quoting Donald Trump all day. YOU DO.
I don't follow anything the man is doing. I'm not on his social media. YOU ARE.
2.5 years of Joe Biden* and all you fucking do all day, every day is eat, breath and sleep Trump.
YOU ARE THE CULTIST.
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Quote:You are aware that you have written extensively about Disney, Little Mermaid, Sound of Freedom, Barbie, etc. from the position of a Trumptard who hates all the same things Trump hates. And you have written hundreds of times that Trump won, Trump will be the next President, that you will cheat to get Trump elected, that Trump did nothing wrong, etc. 6ixStringJack, you are the Trump cultist. You have found your very own Americanized Donald "Adolph Hitler" Trump to lead you into a glorious future.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh, get fucked.
It's easy to talk about other people being in a cult when you don't recognize that you're in one yourself.
I don't sit here quoting Donald Trump all day. YOU DO.
I don't follow anything the man is doing. I'm not on his social media. YOU ARE.
2.5 years of Joe Biden* and all you fucking do all day, every day is eat, breath and sleep Trump.
YOU ARE THE CULTIST.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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That's a sad little world you live in, boy.
Too bad for you it's coming to an end.
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Quote:What Democrats ought to do is end you and your Nazi Brownshirt and Neo-Confederate kind. The first step is to officially recognize that Donald Trump is a leading driver of domestic extremism.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's a sad little world you live in, boy.
Too bad for you it's coming to an end.
Federal intelligence and national security agencies — from the FBI to DHS — are in universal agreement that domestic extremism and terrorism is the leading threat to the U.S. homeland. But homeland security officials are also trained to be apolitical, so here’s what they can’t tell you: Donald J. Trump poses a significant threat to homeland security.
While generally highly decentralized and fractured, violent extremist groups have begun to mesh over a unifying figure: Trump. The former president has become a focal point of domestic extremism, and by not denouncing them — and sometimes courting them — he has been adopted by these groups as a de facto spiritual leader. In some ways, Trump has also co-opted these groups to boost his own support. This, in my assessment, makes the former president a leading driver of domestic extremism, and an unprecedented danger to our security. The indictment of Trump for his push to overturn the 2020 election puts that in stark relief.
I do not issue this assessment lightly. Such statements are considered blasphemy in domestic intelligence circles and will undoubtedly draw the ire of many both inside and outside of the profession. To name a political figure, or any prominent U.S. person, in a domestic intelligence assessment is taboo. Intelligence analysts and the agencies that oversee them are taught to not politicize threat assessments. To do so would potentially run afoul of civil rights and civil liberties and the First Amendment.
But times have drastically changed since the Trump presidency began. Even as the homeland security profession has resisted involving itself in politics, politically motivated violence has emerged as a major threat to our homeland. This has led to the rise of stochastic terrorism, which occurs when prominent figures demonize, marginalize or openly target a specific group or individual and violence ensues.
Trump’s affinity for violent extremists and conspiracy theorists is an unspoken concern for many homeland security professionals. Throughout his presidency, he consistently failed to condemn white supremacists and far-right militia groups and created an environment ripe for potential violence. More importantly, the legitimization of extremists and so-called “patriots” by Trump and other prominent Republicans has helped them win converts to their violent ideologies.
More at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/05/donald-trump-homelan
d-security-threat-00109928
Quote:For 6ixStringJack, Nazis singing the future belongs to us. Trump is there:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's a sad little world you live in, boy.
Too bad for you it's coming to an end.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What Democrats ought to do is end you and your Nazi Brownshirt and Neo-Confederate kind.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's a sad little world you live in, boy.
Too bad for you it's coming to an end.
And there it is. How you doing, Reaverfan?
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The first step is to officially recognize that Donald Trump is a leading driver of domestic extremism.
Says the guy who just called for the "end" of 80+ Million Americans.
Good luck with that buddy. We've got all the testosterone and all the guns.
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Quote:Says the guy who just called for the "end" of 80+ Million Americans.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
The first step is to officially recognize that Donald Trump is a leading driver of domestic extremism.
Good luck with that buddy. We've got all the testosterone and all the guns.
This author is mystified by Trump’s political success but success is easy to explain if you realize that the relationship between Trump and his "80+ Million" Trumptard base is identical to that of Hitler and his 8 million Nazi base. Hitler was their leader who could do no wrong and Trump is their leader who can do no wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party#Membership
Trump says things that would get you fired from most jobs; Trump says things that suggest illegal conduct; Trump says things that raise questions about his mental acuity.
And he does so in the political arena, where careers have been ruined for far less.
Consider Howard Dean’s infamous yell. Or President Bush 41 checking his watch. Or Hillary Clinton’s use of the word “deplorables.” Or Michael Dukakis in that tank helmet.
National-level politicians are subjected to a withering standard of scrutiny before a public audience that is seemingly ultra-sensitive to foibles and faux pas.
Yet even in an environment as discerning as national politics, Trump endures.
He can seemingly neither do nor say anything sufficiently offensive to discredit himself – which speaks to Trump’s status as the most resilient politician, perhaps, ever, and to his transcendence beyond just a mere politician to an iconoclastic demagogue.
Donald Trump can seemingly say whatever he wants
By now, Trump has said something to offend just about everyone.
Trump has made so many controversial, offensive, off-putting, and weird remarks that it’s become difficult to keep track of what he said and when.
Most politicians would have ended their careers if they uttered just a few syllables worth of what Trump has been spewing consistently for the better part of a decade.
But that’s just it with Trump; he’s not a normal politician.
In the eyes of his most loyal followers, Trump is the anti-politician.
Trump’s 2016 messaging – which framed Trump as the ultimate outsider, who would go to Washington to drain the swamp, who would speak for the swaths of constituents that mainstream politicians had been neglecting for a generation, who wouldn’t be bullied – has stuck.
In effect, what Trump has done is created a scheme in which all mainstream criticism against Trump serves to validate the narrative that Trump is an outsider with powerful enemies. Trump’s brilliance lies in his ability to essentially invert criticism. What happens is that the things that are said or done in an attempt to degrade Trump or to impeach Trump’s character, serve only to make him stronger in the eyes of the base.
Through that scheme, Donald Trump has built himself a buffer to say or do whatever he wants, which he exploits. Trump knows that a large part of his appeal, his perceived charm, stems from his willingness to speak and act in a way that is unconventional.
And that’s exactly what Trump does.
He says what he wants, off-the-cuff, knowing that it will boost his appeal.
So, to all the observers sitting around waiting for the day that Donald Trump will say something that finally ruins his political viability, I would advise not to hold your breath. With respect to verbal accountability, Trump is an anomaly. If Trump’s political career implodes, it will not be because of something he says. If that were going to happen it would have happened a long time ago.
Trump is absolutely going to be relevant throughout the 2024 election – and perhaps longer.
He’s going to say crazy stuff throughout, the press is going to cover it ravenously – and it’s only going to bolster his appeal amongst his base.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/08/something-is-terribly-wrong-with-f
ormer-president-trump/
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