Posted on 09/03/2024 7:21:00 PM PDT by TBP
Yesterday I went to see Reagan. Excellent movie. Go see it.
There is a scene in the movie after President Reagan is shot where he gets a hospital visit from Tip O'Neill. They pray together.
Even as recently as a few years ago when a Bernie Sanders supporter tried to kill Republican Congressmen and injured Steve Scalise, members of both parties condemned the act and cheered Scaise's recovery.
A few months ago, when President Trump was shot, Democrats' responses largely fell into three groups: deny that it happened, claim that Trump staged it, or wish that the shooter had better aim,
What has happened to us? How did we get from the Democrat Speaker praying with the Republican President in his hospital room to a country where people try to dismiss, diminish, or fully support the shooting of the presidential nominee of one of our major parties?
“All of this was happening before social media.”
But it has accelerated since, no?
Drugs, Alcohol and Pornography maybe the Porn being worst of all.
Nazi Germany had pornography called “art” and its ultimate expression of pornography live performance, industrial scale snuff porn otherwise known as The Holocaust.
Social media is just a tool. I think it's irrelevant if it happens tomorrow rather than ten years from now. If the root causes are the same.
After WWII we allowed the IC to run ops all over the world. They also ran ops on the U.S. The IC was infiltrated with former Nazi’s and communists. We failed to rein them in and they ran a slow motion color revolution on us. We are now seeing the fruits of that operation.
“Burnin’ Down the House!”
You didn’t despise them before?
IC?
Communist.
For the most part, godless.
This is what you get when God is kicked out of public life and has no respect for the value of human life.
Reject God and Satan comes in to fill the vacuum. The Liar who comes only to kill, steal, and destroy. When one sells their soul to him, they become like him.
We good men did nothing, but vote.
"And look where my hand was."
Seeing Americans disappointed Trump wasn't assassinated, the rise of totally senseless murders and the youth cheering for Hamas savages who've raped AFTER killing Jews and beheaded babies...End Times; where millions are led to damnation by Satan who will drag as many into the Pit as he can while he can. Allah is one of his many names.
"Godless and soulless.
"frankfurt school ..."
"Good men doing nothing. "
You folks have succinctly nailed it. Bravo!
Intelligence Community - CIA - state dept etc
Equating everyone to Hitler if they have a different opinion hasn’t helped much.
Are you saying that this has caused the communist/fascist takeover that we are currently facing?
You do know that our adversary projects, right? It’s in their rulebook. What that means is they get out in front of solid criticism by calling their opposition what they actually are. It is childish, but terribly effective on humans (case in point here).
So how would all this (identifying a threat while the other side projects) actually be the CAUSE of the communist/fascist takeover? You would think it would be an EFFECT of this takeover.
Put another way, the people see a wolf coming and call it out.
The wolf says “I ain’t a wolf, you all are wolves, I’m a unicorn! That identifies as a caterpillar!”.
And Don@VB says “you dummies, because you all are talking about wolves, a wolf is here!”
I don’t get it.
Also keep in mind, Hitler was just a guy with a different opinion.
Sometimes different opinions are not good.
Just because something is different does not make it good. I had a boss used to think this way. He was pretty weird, and terribly ineffective.
Intelligence community
“What has happened to us?”
We are two peoples with two diametrically opposed worldviews stuck together in an unhappy marriage with no possibility of a friendly divorce.
1) Iran/Contra
2) Bork Supreme Court Nomination
3) Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Nomination
4) Clinton scandals and media cheerleading that previous norms "didn't matter" (Contrast with Gary Hart scandal in "84)
5)2000 Election (Huge turning point: thanks AL Gore and no longer funny late night comedians)
6) 24 hour news cycles
7) Combination of social media with mobile technology--impossible to ignore or not be subjected to strife.
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