The Cult of Trump
 

"The Republican Party today is not loyal to principles as such, but loyal to the person of Donald Trump. He is really a cult figure. Nixon was not a cult figure."
Former Republican Representative Bill Cohen-Maine

So it's pretty telling that it’s one of the rites of passage into the Cult of Trump and the modern Trumplican Party that, like Nikki Haley, you have to publicly legitimize the Confederacy, a racist, treasonous, nightmarish dystopia founded on white supremacy and stark economic hierarchies.

Now to ensure obedience, the Georgia and North Carolina Trumplican parties decided this week that Donald Trump will be the only name on their 2020 presidential primary ballots, and they aren’t alone. The Minnesota Trumplican Party pulled the same move a few weeks ago, and earlier the Trumplican parties in South Carolina, Arizona, Kansas, Nevada and Alaska canceled their nominating contests outright. The party is disenfranchising Republican voters in eight states—so far.

Fear not there is help for you

https://www.decision-making-confiden...pe-a-cult.html

Thank you for sharing this valuable opinion PeteF. I believe this is enough to impeach and surely it will keep the offenders out of the heaven known as the democratic party. Good,solid reporting as usual.
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Uhhh, Nikki Haley is the governor who took the flags down, isn’t she?

Howling at the moon...

There are confederate soldiers buried at Arlington. Should we remove them?
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If the soldiers never fought for the US Army, exhume them and throw their bodies in the trash.

the world was different then, than it is today. the left really struggles with that concept.
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Is it too late to right a wrong?

Exhume those traitorous POS and throw them in the garbage. If there are some family members or those states in the traitorous south wants to rebury them - they can have the bones. I don't want to pay to cut the grass over their bones. Does the right not understand that?

Oh look, Paul is trolling for racists. Hopefully nobody takes the bait.
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I don't understand how anybody can support those POS still being in the same spots w/our heroes. Too bad you don't understand.

Grasping at straws,it’s all he has left.
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Thank you for sharing your feelings today.🤠
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We are lucky to have heroes that died so we can press 1 for English.
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Now I understand the problem, it's the brown people.

You've been victimized and need to take back what you see as “your” country from the recently arrived interlopers.

Never, ever too late to right a wrong. But we need to be sane and logical about judging people from centuries before. Pretty sure you knew what I meant.

In general, the Confederate cause was treasonous and beyond racist by today’s standards. (The right knows this, because as we all know, it was predominantly judeo-christian conservatives who led he abolitionists. ). But there were many confederate soldiers who fought for something other than slavery.

It’s hard to imagine he founding fathers owning slaves, but some
did. That was the world then. Do we take down all monuments to all of them? Re-name the nations capital? Where does it stop?
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Let’s be clear: The Confederate battle flag we know today is an emblem of oppression, white supremacy and the fight to maintain slavery. That is its heritage.

William T. Thompson wrote in an 1863 editorial about the “Stainless Banner,” the second national flag of the Confederacy, “Our idea is simply to combine the present battle flag with a pure white standard sheet.” He continued, “As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematic of our cause.”

In South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag made a slow march to greater prominence as civil rights for black people were asserted or attained, beginning by being displayed in the State House in 1938 “after angry Southerners in Congress managed to defeat a bill that would have made lynching a federal crime” and reaching the top of the dome on the Capitol in 1962 “after President John F. Kennedy called on Congress to end poll taxes and literacy tests for voting and the Supreme Court struck down segregation in public transportation.”

What does my statement have to do with skin color?

Oh...and No, I am not a victim but you sure are creative.👍🏿
This is OUR country. All citizens that is.
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Then what does this statement mean, are you just celebrating diversity?

"We are lucky to have heroes that died so we can press 1 for English."

Try some critical thinking for a change.
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You should take your own advice.

They were pardoned Paul, every single one of them. In order to heal the country and move forward. I know that’s a foreign concept to those still pissing and moaning about Columbus Day, but I’ve moved on from it.
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He won't respond bc he doesn't know what to say.

We didn't have to move their graves and give them their own section of the Arlington.

Try it on this

Washington Post has chronicled 12,000 instances of Trump making false statements. But the Trumplicans say he ought to be taken at this word when he said there was no quid pro quo. After all, if he did push a quid pro quo, there's no way he would lie about that, right?

Move on, Paul, help heal the nation
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that’s not exactly the lefts motto these days...
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Says the person who needs to respond to almost every post in this forum that they disagree with for how many years. All hours of the day and night, week days and week nights.

At least you have provided a good.:laughs: there.

snarky

Screw those traitors (and their supporters).

You must be rubbing off on me.

I did leave out weekends.

i don’t see responding, and having the ability to move on, as being mutually exclusive. Your frustration is showing. Remember to save yourself some room for foaming at the mouth, for when we get closer to the election.
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You know exactly what I mean so stop playing dumb.
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