Grandma loses her cookies.......

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

I don't expect Donny to ever concede the election. What will these cultists do if the election isn't overturned in the courts? Scary thoughts.

Banned on FB for a start......


A large portion of the ones I know have been banned in the last few days on FB for a period of time. Wear it as a badge of honor!

[barbara]

I just can't figure the hold Trump has over his followers. Are these the same kind of people who would have followed Jim Jones into the jungle?

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by barbara

I just can't figure the hold Trump has over his followers. Are these the same kind of people who would have followed Jim Jones into the jungle?

It appears so.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by barbara

I just can't figure the hold Trump has over his followers. Are these the same kind of people who would have followed Jim Jones into the jungle?

Maybe we can get tRump to lead his followers off into a jungle somewhere. After all he's led them around by the nose for four plus years. There he can have all the rallys, golfing and kitty grabbing he can stand.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by barbara

I just can't figure the hold Trump has over his followers. Are these the same kind of people who would have followed Jim Jones into the jungle?

Here's a deep dive into this question. Dates to 2018. From Bob Altenmeyer's blog. The basic answer is, authoritarian followers bond very tightly to their leader. https://theauthoritarians.org/48-2/

[donquixote99]

Yes. They are homo sapiens.

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god!"

[RickeyM]

That Bob Altenmeyer fella, I think he's got a pretty good handle on the subject. Of course Donny wouldn't have been quite so successful had the GOP not spent decades priming the pump.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

That Bob Altenmeyer fella, I think he's got a pretty good handle on the subject. Of course Donny wouldn't have been quite so successful had the GOP not spent decades priming the pump.

Decades and decades. This observation by Henry Wallace dates to the 1940's:

“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity .…They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
Vice President Henry A. Wallace, April 9, 1944.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Decades and decades. This observation by Henry Wallace dates to the 1940's:

At long last someone finds Wallace. However, Wallace is also instructive on the character of the DNC.

[nailer]

The Cold War may not have happened if conservative Democrats had not kept Wallace off the ticket.