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hehe, just kidding. You're cool :)

In my opinion it was Roger Ailes who capitalized on the shenanigans of Bill Clinton and discovered a very dark corner of American thought and exacerbated it (fed it) and then exploited it through a complex media formula. Propaganda is a complex thing and extremely effective on preconditioned mind

Spot on. Most, regardless of intellect, saw the bigotry in 2016. But, theoretically, a "low information" voter with a good heart could have voted Trump. But after that first term, and Jan 6th... there's no excuse. Cruelty is a feature, not a bug. Trump voters are getting exactly what they wanted.

Take your average person in terms of smarts. 50% is below that. George Carlin said that I think.

- It’s just sociopaths and as sharks do shark things sociopaths do the things they do because they aren’t connected to any other life, because they don’t feel emotions — Any perceived emotions from a sociopath is performative. Sociopaths perceive themselves as the center of the physical universe…

he gives me hope

I am legitimately afraid to call my gov't reps at this point because I believe that they'll put me on some terrorist watch list.

MAGA is not an aberration. It is the result of decades of Republican bigotry.

They would

Everyone thinks they're on the side of good.

For me, the shocking thing isn’t that there are people like this out there. The shocking thing isn’t how freaking many of them there are.