Mastodawn

The only solution I see to Trump and Trumpism is to crush the Republican party this November. Banish it to the political wilderness for the next 40 years. Repudiate its horror. Shame and shun its members.

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Space Hobo 1d ago

@samlitzinger It has to be more complete than that. We need to educate the public to spot right-wing and anti-intellectual projects from the jump. We need to root out the people who sound like they're environmental leftists until you actually ask them what worries them and they babble about the PoPuLaTiOn BoMb and reveal that they think of "nature" as a holiday destination they drive to.

We need an entire nation of people who can hear every last dogwhistle, and won't stand for it.

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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

@spacehobo @samlitzinger

I grew up in a small conservative Texas town in the 80s. There was no such thing as liberal media or differing viewpoints. Racism and bigotry was just in the air.

But I knew, in my soul, what was right and wrong. These people didn’t become homophobes or racists because of Rush Limbaugh, they listed to him because they were racists and homophobes.

I am truly starting to believe that like a third of humanity is just, for lack of a better term, stupid and evil.