Oof, my post must have caused you a moment of reality. You closed your eyes, covered your ears and began chanting Democrat mantras.

That’s not the worst idea. The problem is the price.

You can say it, but you’d be hysterically wrong, like any other time Democrats or Republicans have whipped themselves into hysteria to protect themselves from reality.

Now you’re just trying to gaslight. Any time the Democrats don’t win, you lose your shit and you know it.

But, yes, do run away and block me because I’m sure by now the cognitive dissonance is reaching critical levels.

If western leaders were not spineless cowards who spend their time wringing their hands over their reelection chances, the Russia/Ukrainian war would have never started.

All the US and Europe would have had to do is say, “If Russia invades Ukraine, we’re declaring war on Russia and if Russia deploys a nuclear weapon, every major Russian city will immediately become a glowing crater.”

Putin would have back off immediately because that would be a fight even HE knows that Russia has absolutely no chance of winning.

You “care about outcomes”? Bullshit. you care about your political team winning. There’s a difference. It’s why you engage in the typical Democrat hysteria and spew their talking points with no consideration for reality.

Then when the midterms come, if Republicans gain more seats, you’ll be screeching louder and becoming more and more hysterical. Then in 2028, if (assuming he’ll run) JD Vance wins, you’ll be shitting yourself and wondering why so many people are “turning into fascists” as you continue blindly spewing your political party’s talking points.

If Trump was a Democrat, you’d be polishing his shoes with your tongue and talking about how good the polish tastes and talking about how no one is above the law, which is why illegal immigrants have to go home and come back the right way.

Don’t lie to yourself. This is why you spent 4 years defending Biden, despite his obvious dementia.

I see another unserious person who can’t think beyond their political talking points.

Come back when you’re capable of thinking and speaking intelligently and not mindlessly spouting your political gods’ talking points.

I am also not “right wing” but you see anyone who doesn’t worship your poltiical gods as such, so I suppose you would see it that way.

They expand the services to trap more and more people in the gill net. The bigger the net, the more people trapped.

Also, the cliffs aren’t created by “fascists” trying to cut services. The cliffs are written into the programs specifically to stop people from escaping the gill net. This is even present in VERY blue states. Also, your casual use of the term “fascists” is telling.

If it wasn’t intentional, the losses would be gradual as the person makes more money to wean them off the benefits, rather than making them worse off for having the nerve to dare make more than the state sanctioned amount of money. Anyone capable of basic logic would know that this would be necessary to get people off of welfare, which SHOULD be temporary for people who fall on hard times, not a lifestyle for generations on end.

The problem is that when people rise to the middle class, they tend to be less receptive to the idea of voting for more and more taxes and government programs because then it’s THEIR money that is being taken. Those at the bottom who depend on the government are more than happy to vote for it because then it’s taking someone else’s money and benefits themselves. This is a problem for Democrats because they rely on a permanent underclass of impoverished people who depend on various welfare programs to draw their power from.

Define “destroy democracy”.

It’s a meaningless buzz phrase the Democrats bandy about to stir up hysteria and prevent people from thinking critically. It wasn’t Trump who tried to weaponize the government to force a political candidate from running and tried to keep said candidate tied up in court so they couldn’t campaign.

People capable of critical thinking burned out on the hysteria between 2016 and 2021. This is why Trump got reelected in 2020. The Democrat hysteria didn’t work and the Democrats actively trying to weaponize the government to stop Trump was so blatantly obvious that it turned a huge number of people against them.

Also, you’re doing precisely what I described. Denying reality in service of your political party. You call it a “conspiracy theory” because then you can use that label to deny reality. Biden was a pedo and has dementia, it was obvious. you didn’t care because he was “on your team”.

It’s also not a theory. It’s a fact.

It’s not insane. It’s the truth. Why do you think the FBI, who does not pursue lost or stolen personal possession cases, went after the Ashley Biden diary?

The Biden Administration knew it would be bad news if the contents of that diary were made public. Some of it was and even SNOPES had to admit that it was real and the contents that were released were confirmed.

And why else would Ashley write that she had to wait until late at night to shower because of her father? Those who worship the Democratic Party ignored the obvious, that he was a pedo and he has dementia.

Call it insane if you want, I call it reality.

I’m all for a social safety net. The problem is that Democrats have turned it into a social gill net. A net you can get into, but is very hard to escape from. You should look harder into how it works. There is a point where you go from getting the full benefits to getting nothing and it’s well below the line you’d need to be to not need it anymore. The system is specifically designed to never let you escape.

There’s a reason why multigenerational welfare dependence exists. It’s an intentional setup to ensure that people cannot become socially mobile because that negatively affects political parties that rely on having a large population of people in poverty to draw their power from. It’s called a benefits cliff. In many places, you’re better off sitting at the bottom, making almost nothing and suckling the government teat than fighting your way to financial independence. It traps people not only in poverty, but where they live because moving to a different state or sometimes even city to seek better opportunities means losing some or all of your benefits, putting them in a worse off situation.

And? They wouldn’t have to release everything. They could selectively release the files Trump was on, and redact anything not Trump related, then take him to trial.

It would have been a slam dunk and considering the absurdly crooked and corrupt Engoron and Merchan trials, it’s obvious they actually had nothing on Trump.

Those who do not think for themselves cannot conceive that they can be wrong. They always accept whatever they are told by their political party without question, even if it contradicts what they were told previously and will promptly discard previous stance without question. If Trump was a Democrat, the Democrats would rally around him and the Democrats’ minions would worship the ground he walks on, even as he deports illegal immigrants. There would be a small handful that rail against him, but the bulk would genuflect mindlessly, just like they did with Obama when he was declared “deporter in chief”

" If you can tell a better story that engages them and makes them feel feelings, their brains will latch onto that new narrative and they will either abandon the old one or encorporate it even if it contradicts"

Partially correct. The mindless will change their minds, but only when their political gods tell them to. If the better story comes from anyone else, they reject it without a second thought. This applies to both parties.

The irony is watching Democrats/left wingers on here declaring themselves the arbiters of truth and morality and howling about Trump being a pedo when Biden was openly touching and sniffing little girls on national TV with the same Democrats desperately trying to explain it away as being “fatherly”. Then when the Ashley Biden diary was confirmed to be real, the Democrats rejected reality because it would mean that they were wrong about Biden.

“The positions my political party takes is always correct. Those who disagree with my political party are always wrong” is the single most intellectually bankrupt, arrogant, and narcissistic view a person can have.

It shows a complete lack of critical thinking and a deep, outright religious zeal for the message of the doctrine of the political party they worship.

This is cute from people who live under left leaning governments who tax them ever harder and erect more and more barriers to social mobility though taxation, needless bureaucracy and regulations, and then erect more and more horribly inefficient and fraud prone programs to ensure that those at the bottom are trapped at the bottom because they get a “free” home, food, etc, but if they work too hard, those are cut off, making them worse off than when they just suckled the government teat and accepted their lot in life, which means they cannot EVER raise themselves up due to being made worse off than they are if they try.

Then these people breed and create more and more government dependent subjects who have little choice but the suckle the government teat, and then they have kids, and their kids have kids, creating an ever growing army of dependent subjects that cement the charlatans in power in perpetuity.

The irony of people falling for 1930s propaganda and being wrong on so many issues accusing the others of falling for 1930s propaganda and being wrong on issues is… lost on them. unsurprising, really. The smug, arrogant, low information crowd can’t conceive the concept that they can be wrong.

If Trump was on the Epstein files in a way that they could have used to prosecute him, the Democrats would have released the files related to Trump and redacted anything else.

The Democrats spent 8 years digging through Trump’s life looking for anything they could have prosecuted him for but somehow overlooked the Epstein files?

I don’t think so.