Why Republicans live in fear

Milley took a strategy from Nazi Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess served in that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence until his suicide in 1987.
 
Mercor said:
FEAR:
Fear of monsters under the bed caused a General to call his enemy and without regard to his soldiers offered to forewarn of troop movements against China
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Except that the monster was not living under anyone's bed, he was operating from Oval Office of the West Wing, and Milley's alarm was shared throughout the highest ranks of the monster's administration.

Other than that, yeah, what you said.
 
Mercor said:
Milley took a strategy from Nazi Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess served in that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence until his suicide in 1987.
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Still waiting for the punchline.
 
Frederick Foresight said:
Except that the monster was not living under anyone's bed, he was operating from Oval Office of the West Wing, and Milley's alarm was shared throughout the highest ranks of the monster's administration.

Other than that, yeah, what you said.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2021...eys-reported-intervention-even-more-alarming/

Trump’s Military Record Makes Milley’s Reported Intervention Even More Alarming
Despite his bluster, the former president did not act like a trigger-happy leader eager for needless conflict abroad.
 
Mercor said:
Milley took a strategy from Nazi Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess served in that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence until his suicide in 1987.
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Not really, you've been allowed to live.
 
It's always been known, since before the Greeks that political polarisation leads to personality types forming camps.

These personality types have evolved for a reason as this provides the best average protection for the group. They needs to be kept mixed up, not allowed to settle. Conservatism club is later in life thing, life expectancy average was 35-40 if very lucky so it never had much sway till recently.
 
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Ricter said:
If you accept Ernest Becker's argument, we're all living in fear. Except for the unconscious.
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Had to look him up. He posited on the fear of death, no? Republicans, as a group, have a complicated relationship with death. On the one hand, they're afraid of everything. And on the other, so many of them are waiting for end times, rapture or whatever. How, then, can they possibly be expected to know up from down? They fear what they don't know, and they don't know much of anything. They rely on faith-based politics, economics and science. They fabricate their own reality because they can't cope with the one imposed on all of us.
 
piezoe said:
I might agree that fear is not the dominant feature of modern Republican politics, but it is certainly one of the dominant features. Other features are party members' preference for job training over education, anti-intellectualism and mistrust of academia. Most troubling is the party's latent White Nationalism which has been awakened by it demagogic leadership. This spells trouble for a country demographically becoming browner, and rapidly so. The last major nation where White Nationalism became a dominating feature ended up being bombed into the dust.

The U.S. sorely needs healthy opposition in its politics to prevent one political faction or another from becoming either tyrannical or ineffectual. Where will that healthy opposition come from? Certainly not from the Republicans, who are working so hard to marginalize themselves. The danger they represent to the rest of us is their only feature keeping them from irrelevancy.

I suppose the independent voter will now be called on to fill the void left by the Republicans who consciously abandoned integrity and reason and instead declared war on truth and embraced lies and nastiness in what is likely to be a futile attempt to hold their dwindling flock together.
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This posting will be ignored as it is a non-factual posting.
 
Buy1Sell2 said:
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You have the autism bad today eh?

The fix is easy enough, the return of the fairness doctrine. That and making party whipped voting a no-no.

Individual reps making their best determination for the people who elected them to represent them.
 
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