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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: The Fight
Date: 06/11/2024 9:10 PM
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So how would you correct it?

Just about none of it is correct. Let's parse it.

America is in an emergency. America is under existential attack from evil people who must be destroyed by any means necessary.

America has problems, yes, but these are fixable, and in some cases very easily. The democrat party has moved further and further left and in so doing has enacted a number of really, really awful policies that are holding the country back at the city, county, state and federal levels. The further left a democrat elected official gets, the worse the policy outcomes. But that doesn't imply "evil" and the "destroyed by any means necessary" phrasing implies lining them all up and shooting them.

We don't do that here, so no.

Then it gets more ridiculous:

There is an enemy within and we are in such dire straits that we need to get rid of our system of government, get rid of all of this process, get rid of all these people having a say, get rid of all these safeguards and checks and balances, and instead just have somebody who is going to slay the demon; someone who is going to vanquish our enemies once and for all.

There IS an entrenched bureaucrat class that thinks It Knows Better and it abuses the power that it has. You see this manifest itself in the rulemaking that goes on, be it the EPA abusing the Waters Of The United States statutes or the ATF imposing mandates absent legislation to intelligence officials abusing their status to declare this or that disinformation to a public health officials who refused to level with the public during COVID...with deadly consequences.

All that is fixable via the ballot box. The Constitution is the single best governing document on the planet and its concepts are what are needed here, not a revolution as described. The piece you quoted explicitly rejects that, and as such isn't something that I nor anyone I know would ever support. Quite the opposite.

As I said: this is what some lefty thinks right wingers want: Elect Trump, dissolve the government, and have The Big Orange Generalissimo rule the United States forever. Uhhh, no. That's ridiculous; I know of literally no one who thinks that way. I happen to be of the opinion that statements like these are actually intended to rile up Trump's political opponents so as to back them into an emotional place where they can mentally justify that Anything Goes when it comes to stopping him this election cycle.

Last time we saw little old ladies being assaulted by mask wearing goons when leaving rallies. With verbiage like what you shared, what does that escalate into this time? Is that good for the country, especially when a victim retaliates in kind?

What is driving your support for Trump and the MAGA movement?

I don't know how you're defining "the MAGA movement" so I won't address that. I will tell you this to answer the Trump part:

1. We have essentially two choices in this election - the third party fringe candidates don't matter - so it's either Biden or Trump. I didn't want Trump to run and was very vocal about my support for Ron DeSantis as President...but Ron D came in 2nd in the primary. This is what we have to choose from.

2. Biden was a mediocre man before age caught up with him and as President, he's been an abject disaster. Literally every marker one could name is measurably worse off: the economy. The border. Foreign policy. Name it. He's sucked at it.

3. Trump has a lot of faults. But his record as President...was actually pretty good. The world wasn't on fire and in fact we had the Abraham Accords gaining momentum. People weren't flooding the border. Our foreign policy wasn't the poopshow it is now. On more subtle fronts, we were making preparations to counter China (who Trump loudly - and accurately - called out as a threat).

Ask yourself this. For all the apocalyptical rhetoric put out by the Hillary! campaign - Trump was a racist, he was gonna take vengeance on his political opponents and take away all our freedoms -

Did any of that happen? Answer: Nope.

Therefore, going forward, for about a hundred reasons, a Trump 2nd term will be better than a Biden second term.

That's why he has my vote. There's no "cult". It's an objective measurement of the two men as President.


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