Monday, November 7, 2016
"Flat Earth Set" Quote of the Day
"It wasn’t really a coalition of angry working-class voters that led Trump’s flat-earth crusade. It was a coalition of angry rich media figures who know, even if they are wrong, there is a lot of money to be made denying reality. It’s Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Steve Bannon, Rush Limbaugh, and the usual carnival barkers, most of whom are too smart to believe their own nonsense. But they have made fortunes peddling bile and prejudice and the market continues to be good." -- former Romney campaign chief strategist Stuart Stevens in a column today. Of course, he could have added 40 years of his own Party's dog whistle bigotry and pandering to the lowest common denominator for partisan advantage (see St. Ronnie of Hollywood's "States rights" speech in Mississippi in 1980). While Stevens is right to call out the scum of the right wing, they were facilitated constantly by "establishment" Rethuglicans who were too power hungry or who lacked the spine to oppose them.
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I got to give "Duh Turnip" credit for ONE thing. He managed to bring out ALL the Hate America has in their hearts.
ReplyDeleteI am sickened. In all my 68 yrs, I never experienced this at such a degree.
So, Mr. Disgusting, the "2016 Award for Promoting Hate & Bringing It Out in the Open"
goes to YOU. Is this a genie that will NEVER go back in to the bottle???
F.M. -- The dog whistle era of Republican politics is past. The bigotry, misogyny, cruelty and pure hatred is out in the open for all to see. The masks are off, and we see them as we always new them to be. Thanks for commenting.
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