These guys are way nicer to you than you deserve, Kevin.
We are way past justification for playing nice with Trump. Historically, we know what you are. You are a bystander and an enabler. And a coward since you prescribe from remove.
The concept of a Trump derangement syndrome is a thought virus designed to short circuit any real examination of the relation of present actions to their counterparts in the past. It isn't necessary for stooges like yourself to swallow the criminal nature of this regime. You have already digested that bit. It is how you are taught to get past the vestiges of hesitation left in you from a culture that portrays Nazis and Klansmen as the bad guys of the other team. It isn't the dehumanization of outsiders that would trouble your conscience. Just the uniforms and the sheets. This isn't political thought for most anymore. It is sport and vicarious identification with power and the familiar furniture of resentments.
The Reich-framing of the moment is hyperbole just because your team lacks competence and intelligence. The road blocks in his way are more severe than they were in the Wiemar Republic. And Trump's team is way more clumsy. Admittedly the goals are somewhat different. The techniques of murder will be more subtle but the will to power and the disregard of human lives is the same. More importantly the Certainty that is coming into its own is more immune to actual thought than anything we have seen in many centuries.
In the histories of these movements, suckers like you only double down and get cozier with the violence and the ignorance until they get real place in the game or become collateral damage. The hysterectomy issue is a case in point. The people in custody are already stateless and without real human rights. You have already swallowed that camel and now cling to the gnat that the worst accusations might be hyperbole. All the while each rise in temperature normalizes the day before.
You are gone over to the devil already. Few come back. Any that do, have a burden of proof before they are accepted back into civil discourse. This isn't about me promoting permanent polarization of right and left. The Lincoln Party guys over here have all sorts of past stances I think wrong. But they know the devil when he asks for their hand. So I can see them as legitimate parts of a healthy polis and as partners in making a world between us. I can fight the ideas of theirs when I think they are dangerous without exiling their person from the public sphere. But Waterboys for Ignorafascism or any other ideology of violence and greed have no place the future without renouncing that shit. That is who you are right now. You don't recognize the uniform when you look down. But you will look back on the ecological and political violence one day and have to own what you allowed with your assent.
The original question you asked of John seemed to hint at what others here thought of your static. It seems my first post wasn't obvious enough and you misunderstood it as a suggestion we do morality by vote. I imagine this is more clear.
Enjoy the complicity from afar. May you get the type of leadership you wish upon others, up close and personal enough that you can see it for what it is and return to common decency with a better sense of discernment than you have now.
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