Trump Is Rage Baiting the US Into a Second Civil War – In a healthy democracy, all sides generally recognize the legitimacy of the system itself, regardless of internal squabbles. In the United States, this is no longer the case.
Source: Quirkie
Trump Is Rage Baiting the US Into a Second Civil War – In a healthy democracy, all sides generally recognize the legitimacy of the system itself, regardless of internal squabbles. In the United States, this is no longer the case.
Source: Quirkie
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Culture war to prevent a class war.
Might be fair to say the rage baiting is an extension of old Cold War propaganda. It gradually seeped into societal cracks that were already there and widened them. Like water seeping into pavement and freezing. Next thing you know you got a pothole
Maybe the Confederate Flag is in bed with the legacy of Soviet propaganda
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
Anyone who believes the ramblings of an 80 year old, dementia riddled, insane billionaire needs to wake up.
What happened to the price of eggs, rent, mortgages? They don’t care about that anymore because Trump has seemingly turned them against their neighbor who they share more in common with than the billionaire class. Wake up people.
When trust in institutions drop, everything feels existential.
Calling it “rage baiting” feels accurate. Donald Trump has basically mastered the art of saying something inflammatory, watching the outrage cycle spin, and then fundraising off it.
Nah he bout to get himself removed or couped
The scary part isn’t tanks in the streets. It’s neighbors viewing each other as illegitimate citizens because of how they vote.
The US always had a flawed democracy. I wouldn’t call it a healthy democracy. Trump is just a symptom of a rotten system.
In a healthy democracy it shouldn’t be possible for all this stuff to happen in the first place
It’s just his personality and defense mechanisms working overtime. Trump feels he is inferior to so many others, he has to degrade everyone who he feels threatened by. He constantly needs to be given praise, rewards, to boost his ego and seek revenge against his detractors. He needs attention so badly, he will do or say anything to be the center of his imaginary universe.
This is what happens when a child grows up without love. It’s also hard to love a child who is violent, cunning and ruthless. When you look at the people he surrounds himself with , they all seem damaged. That is their common bond.
If you gauge the health of our nation, we are in trouble. Trump has influence over 30-35% of his followers. Hitler had a base of 30%. After WWI, when the economy of Germany failed, they blamed their “oppressors”. Our economy is about to go in the toilet (further). Trump will blame the liberals for his failures. I think it’s obvious we will end up in a war, Civil or otherwise.
After all, isn’t he the leader of the Bored of Peace?
The MAGA serves only trump.
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. … Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/23497-the-origins-of-totalitarianism
Please try to remember that we were all one big nation of shiny, happy people holding hands until Obama came along and turned us all against each other.
/s
Divide and conquer. Pit your subjects against each other and while they are infighting, take total control. That’s the problem with a strict bipartisan system in the US, especially when one side is using religious extremist concepts of good vs. evil to paint the other side as “demonic”, to use their own words.
The ultimate racist boomer. Consumed by vices
Trump? No. Trump isn’t nearly intelligent enough to come up with something this elaborate. He is dumb enough to go along with it though.
there will be no 2nd civil war. that threat passed long ago. we’d only have a civil war if the right wanted to fight, but theyre in power, so theres no reason. the left is not going to initiate war.
Now i hate to agree with tucker carlson but even a broken clock can be right twice a day, right? When the popularity of a bill/law/act or what have you has no actual bearing on its passing then it seems to me the people DO have a legitimate grievance to address with the government. If our first amendment cant secure a better future for americans then we’ll have to try the next one. Thats what theyre there for, after all🤷♂️
He’s not “rage baiting” shit. He’s destroying the country and one side is pissed about it and the fact that this country is run by rich child rapists. The media really does not want a civil war or the system to collapse.
IMO, people need to stop using the term Civil War. It’s third-world style strongman authoritarianism.
Until there’s an opposing military involved, it ain’t gonna be a civil war. It’s a rogue government looking for excuses to keep putting the boot on their civilian population’s throats.
He wants martial law, that’s what ICE has been all about.
He has to go. Congress can keep pretending like nothing unusual is happening but we are not moving on from this one. Better to remove him now.
https://citizenshandbook.org/get_rid_of_a_dictator.html
I’ll never forgive the marks who voted for this clown
No he’s not
MAGA has never been less on his side
He’s closer to rage-baiting the country into a second, bipartisan January 6th than he is civil war at this point
Turns out conservatives have children too
Sure, Jan. His supporters are becoming fewer and fewer, more dejected and disengaged, and, perhaps most important, broke.
But yes, let’s use Civil War rhetoric when most people have to show up to work on Monday or else they may lose their health insurance or house by Friday.
The “system” has never been legitimate
And a leaders job is to work with both parties and unify the country. But he’s actively trying to divide it. Russian puppet. What does Putin have on him?!
And social media is amplifying it. My feed is filled with videos calling for violence in a way that is hardly conspicuous when before those types of videos would have never been allowed
Very convenient way to define a “healthy” democracy.
The Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary were rigged by McConnell. The legislature rigged by Citizens United and the Executive by the Supreme Court inventing immunity. What part of this is supposedly legitimate?
“in a healthy democracy”….
A nation that is always 1 election away from fascism is not a healthy democracy. An election system where people are only allowed to vote for a corporate sponsored far-right republican or a corporate sponsored center-right democrat is not a healthy democracy.
Trump is the culmination of generations of “lesser” evil voting. vote for evil, lesser or otherwise, and don’t be surprised when the winner is evil.
Anything to distract from the fact he’s named more than Epstein in the Epstein files. Orange Child Rapist.
Trump is going to drag America into a war to cover up his horrendous behavior.
Think about that for a moment.
Do you want your sons and daughters to die in a war without a clear objective other than to protect a president from his crimes against children.
Thousands are about to die. We may be in WWIII
Before next week is out.
All to protect a pedophile and his buddies.
He sure is trying along with his buddies with all those bajillions.
The goals of every non billionaire American should be:
1. Repeal Citizens United
2. Fund universal healthcare
3. Tax billionaires and companies at the federal level.
4. Stop attacking other countries.
They’re executing people in the streets. If we’re not already in the initial stages of civil war, then we’re in the initial stages of mass extermination. Stop fucking sugar coating it, we’re either going to fight or we’re going to die on our knees.