"There’s a question that’s been bugging me for nearly a decade. How is it that half of America looks at Donald Trump and doesn’t find him morally repellent? He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly, and more than 70 million Americans find him, at the very least, morally acceptable. Some even see him as heroic, admirable, and wonderful. What has brought us to this state of moral numbness?" -- David Brooks, The Atlantic
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If someone wants to tell me he’s a ‘good’ person, I just ask what his ‘good’ qualities are. Greed, hate, envy, jealousy, pettiness, always blaming others, etc. If you’re convinced he’s a ‘good’ person, it’s likely because you share his qualities.
IMO, Trump speaks the language of an abuser. I know it well and so do others. If you don’t recognize the words he chooses to use as abusive, then you are one of two things, also an abuser OR somebody who has experienced abuse but hasn’t come to terms with it yet.
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Shaw, they see it. They notice it.
They just don't care.
They want a bully in the White House instead of a go aling to get along kind of guy.
This is the brokenness and inability of the US to chart a successful path in both Korea and Vietnam coming back around to haunt us.
Immorality and all...
Good question but that can be said about several presidents, trump, billy. The same question could be asked how can so many people support a president who is incompetent and asleep at the wheel. People support something or someone who is best for them regardless of what kind of person they are. People in DC supported a drug dealer and crook for mayor because he was best for them.
One of the biggest factors is what you pointed out that Every politician has in common, Greed, hate, envy, jealousy, pettiness, always blaming others, etc.
Dr. Phil is on the case. Cerebral numbness.
Trump, as ignorant as he is, knew playing the Bible and Jesus card would really rally the Christian Nationalist Network to his cause and solidify their loyalty to him. Add the white supremacist neo Nazis to his list of supporters and he only needed those independents and democrats who did not approve of Biden and Harris to cinch the 2024 victory.
What will it take to dislodge the tRump fascists? Probably a complete and total economic collapse and incredible social unrest.
Short of that, we'll be living in a fascist dictatorship before the end of the Orange FOTUS is out of office.
A mayor of a city doesn’t have the power a president has to affect ALL American citizens. Your comparison doesn’t work. We have had moral, decent men who were flawed as president. Just like all of us. But I’ve never experienced in my life a man as morally deficient as Trump is.
From Democratic Underground:
“U.S. Professor kidnapped and disappeared by ICE for nearly a day — he still remains detained.
Yesterday a California Faculty Association union leader, Professor Jonathan Caravello, was dragged away by four masked ICE agents while lawfully observing a raid. He was put in an unmarked vehicle with no explanation of where he would be taken and no access to his medication.
After a heart wrenching 20-hour search, he has finally been located, but remains in detention.
This is not normal.
Peaceful protesters, even American citizens, are being tear gassed and abducted by masked men with guns.”
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