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Joe Bagadonuts said:
Just as our very own Hotnikkk stole the KKK, the Nazi's stole the swastika. It used to be a sign of good luck. Maybe you should steal it and try to turn it into something else. Make sure to let us know how that turns out.
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Honestly the worst ideas always seem to have the best branding. It's like there is something about looking at the world in such a simple backward way that lends them an instinct for this stuff. It's like everyone with good ideas overthinks symbolism and tries to hard too be unique until they create a mess of it. The racist pos though is like "yeah, I like that. Don't know why but I could kill for that".
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
Just as our very own Hotnikkk stole the KKK, the Nazi's stole the swastika. It used to be a sign of good luck. Maybe you should steal it and try to turn it into something else. Make sure to let us know how that turns out.
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Too late this time of year...

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♪alt13 said:
Honestly the worst ideas always seem to have the best branding. It's like there is something about looking at the world in such a simple backward way that lends them an instinct for this stuff. It's like everyone with good ideas overthinks symbolism and tries to hard too be unique until they create a mess of it. The racist pos though is like "yeah, I like that. Don't know why but I could kill for that".
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BabyPeterzz said:
It speaks to the huge problems of racial, religious, and socio-economic inequality that is deep rooted in this country. We've failed as a nation to realize it and address it, hiding behind nationalism and economic prosperity. Those who are ignored are now speaking up, loudly.

This is what happens when we pretend that everything is ok, we're the best, and everyone who says otherwise is a freedom hating traitor.

The disenfranchised are rising up. It just so happens that many of these folks are bigoted, racist, sad, angry humans.
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I get what you are saying and agree, but I really object to the insinuation that it's "conservatives" that are doing this, as I understand it, a lot of (former?) D's are supporting Trump. So my point, is that I'm conservative as are a lot people I know, and we don't support that. Racism is not limited to a certain party. :p
 
ConradA24 said:
I get what you are saying and agree, but I really object to the insinuation that it's "conservatives" that are doing this, as I understand it, a lot of (former?) D's are supporting Trump. So my point, is that I'm conservative as are a lot people I know, and we don't support that. Racism is not limited to a certain party. :p
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Fair and true.
 
JazzGal said:
10 Reasons Why Conservatives Should Start Supporting Bernie Sanders Immediately

https://medium.com/@kimballmortensen/10-reasons-why-conservatives-should-start-supporting-bernie-sanders-immediately-7eb700302a2a#.2zr188pxa

Some interesting points. Could use some editing and spell check. :D
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You know what's funny, if Sanders ran as a Republican I'm sure he'd have a good shot of winning the Republican nomination. Shows you how absurd the 2 party system is. It creates unnecessary archetypes.
 
The real 2 parties at this point in time is the establishment and the anti-establishment parties:

Clinton, Bush, Christie, Romney --> Establishment

Paul, Sanders, Johnson --> Anti-establishment


Maybe oversimplified but you get the idea. People are tired of the old Washington gimmicks.


EDIT: Trump is his own party, he's got me confused to say the least. I will say that I do find it a good sign that the establishment are really going after him for some reason. I feel that something's up with that but I can't quite figure it out yet.
 
"It's time to put the moral crisis over the political one. Donald Trump's potential nomination by the Republican Party is not just a crisis for that party and for election politics in general, it is a moral crisis for the country, for democracy itself, and for the state of faith in the nation."

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/donald-trump-and-the-deat_b_9383414.html

He will not sit in the Oval Office. But when he loses, he will leave in his wake the emotions of racial animosity that he has,of his own free will, chosen to encourage. For that act, he is irresponsible to an unimaginable level. For not only seeking to gratify his own ego above all else, but for using racism as his very calling card, this actually is evil. In the banal form in which evil often appears.
 
I don't get why so many Republican voters want to kick out the corrupt politicians who have been bought by billionaires and replace them with one of the billionaires who has been buying the politicians. Eliminate the middle man, maybe?
 
From the above article in my last post, "Donald Trump and the Death Knell of White Supremacy":

GOP strategist Peter Wehner says, "Trumpism is not a political philosophy; it is a purposeful effort, led by a demagogue, to incite ugly passions, stoke resentments and divisions, and create fear of those who are not like 'us' -- Mexicans, Muslims and Syrian refugees. But it will not end there. There will always be fresh targets."
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Yes, there are many good Americans voting for Trump because they are simply fed up with a seat of power in Washington that has not practiced politics, the art of compromise, for the past 8 years. Yet, it is clear the dark cynicism of the megalomaniacal demagogue is the real character at the center of Trumpism. It is so difficult, at least for most of us, to see clearly what history is unfoldng, while it is unfolding. Someday, I do believe American history will judge Trump for what he so clearly is. The hate monger trying to use hate as an emotion he can somehow corral and ride right into the White House. This is why if you don't understand history, you may be doomed to repeat it.

I think the bottom line, well one of them, is that we have a man who is actually willing to do to our nation what Donald Trump is doing. To satisfy his own megalomania, he would damage the body politic to whatever degree necessary to attain power. When I look at him this way, I realize I am witnessing one of the most selfish and irresponsible-to-the-nation's-health acts imaginable. To speak as this man does, and simply not care what harm this is causing, I realize this, in fact, is a very, very sick man.
 
Donald Trump is a gift to the Democrats. He has kept Hillary's baggage almost completely out of the headlines while at the same time severely fracturing the GOP. Trump has promoted big government on many issues since he got into the race which is a great signal to Democrats since it shows a conservative cannot even win the supposed "conservative party." There have been many public conservatives that have come out saying they will not vote for Trump no matter what which is obviously great news for Democrats since many people who would be guaranteed Republican voters will not be going to the polls or will be voting 3rd party on election day.

All in all, he is great for the Democrats and Hillary in particular. It is amazing to me any Republicans would support him. Conservatives preach about decency and morals in our culture, yet will support a morally bankrupt demagogue who is anything but decent? Crazy.

Anyway I don't belong to either political party, but it is interesting to watch Trump destroy one of the two major political parties and cost the Republicans the White House in a year where it would be winnable for them.
 
The doctor is in...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...b55a22-e0bb-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html

"To the catalogue of anxieties her patients explore during therapy — marriage, children, and careers — psychologist Alison Howard is now listening to a new source of stress: the political rise of Donald Trump.

In recent days, at least two patients have invoked the Republican front-runner, including one who talked at length about being disturbed that Trump can be so divisive and popular at the same time, said Howard, who practices in the District.

What had happened to Trump during his childhood, the patient wanted to know, to make him such a “bad person?”

“He has stirred people up,” Howard said. “We’ve been told our whole lives not to say bad things about people, to not be bullies, to not ostracize people based on their skin color. We have these social mores and he breaks all of them and he’s successful. And people are wondering how he gets away with it.”

Hand-wringing over Trump’s rapid climb, once confined to Washington’s political establishment, is now palpable among everyday Americans who are growing ever more anxious over the prospect of the billionaire reaching the White House.

"Type “Trump” and phrases such as “scaring me” or “freaking me out” into Twitter’s search engine, and a litany of tweets unfurl, including one posted two weeks ago by Emma Taylor as she lay in bed in Los Angeles: “I literally can’t sleep because I just thought about how Trump may actually win the Presidency and now I’m having a panic attack.”

“It’s like a hurricane is coming at us, and I don’t have any way of knowing which way to go or how to combat it,” Taylor, 27, a Democrat, said in a phone interview. “He’s extremely reactionary and that’s what scares me the most. I feel totally powerless and it’s horrible.”
 
A real phenomenon.
It almost seems many are attracted TO the uncertainty. I guess akin to being tired of age-old rhetoric like, "the President doesn't matter" or "there won't be any change anyway."

The nation truly does seem to have become one big season premier of the largest reality show imaginable.
 
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