Monday, September 10, 2018

“Those who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities” Voltaire

Honest Omar weighed in with a nice quote that sums up the Republican Party.  "Those who can make you believe absurdities...."  The absurdity that you can give the rich money and it will make you money.  The absurdity that Trump tells the truth.  The absurdity that Russians are meeting with our president and he admires Putin.  On it goes.  Republicans believe these absurdities and the atrocities have been committed. The tax break for the rich has bankrupted our country.  Trump has divided the county much to the delight of the Russians.  Health care and social security are being destroyed.

Ignorance has been weaponized.  Ignorance runs deep in our country and mining it is no problem for KFYR radio, Fox News, and the Republican Party.  Blue collar workers are ripe for exploration.  They know they are being cheated out of the work they do, but they don't know who to blame.  Republicans accuse the poor of being the enemy of the working class. This is an absurdity.  When you look for the guy who robbed the bank do you think he is living under a bridge?  That is absurd, but that is the Republican line, and the working people who voted for Trump and Cramer bought it. When you vote against your own self interest it is an atrocity, when Trump destroys the economy, the environment, and the future it is an atrocity. 


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