IMHO, the irrational anger of deplorables is mirrored in the Nunes memo reaction: Fury
I've been online at home all day, with the cold that's going around, drinking tea and sniffling.
So I went over to another message board that shall not be named and read pages of angry attacks from posters who claim all "lefties" are brain-damaged, and completely uninformed and unpatriotic". You probably know the type.
What surprised me was when someone posted McCain's objection to the release of the Nunes memo: In all the replies, it turns out these left-haters also hate Nixon, Reagan, Bush, McCain, and anyone else mentioned.
Basically, they just hate. They don't really make any good arguments, just blanket accusations, with nothing to support their insults. If they don't understand the rebuttals, they assassinate the writer or the source, be it a tv station, a paper, whatever.
Basically, except for trump, they don't have one positive thing to say about anyone, anywhere, on any topic.
Now, they're even attacking their own justice department, Trump's, own, and the FBI, a notoriously right-leaning institution.
So, just as is stated in the following WP article, dumpsters are at the point of tantruming. Irrational tantruming. And they don't care if they tear down their own government, or it's important agencies. No one is on their side: Not the FBI, not the republican owned house, senate, executive or scotus. Nothing is good enough. They have control of everything and all they can do is insult, belittle, accuse and lay waste to any attempt at running anything.
They got their tax cut, and took a hatchet to Obamacare, and still are furious. They're hauling aliens off planes and out of cars and deporting them. And still, they're furious and drooling.
I can no longer listen to democratic pleas to "include the other side" and "go high when they go low." Nothing will work with them. They even said on the site that it was great if Putin was helping trump end the democratic party. They'll sell the country out just to hurt democrats. The hatred is absolutely unfathomable.
I guess I was naive. I have always lived in blue states. We have some conservatives, but they're not like this: They aren't total anarchists.
I'm starting to see that drump was just the right jerk at the right time: drump was a lightningrod for deplorables. drump was inevitable.
While we're arguing tactics and the finer points of political strategy, they're setting the bedsheets on fire. You can't talk with them: There is no reasoning with them: Appealing to them with any kind of reason or purpose is pointless. They want putin running the world because he will destroy everything. They are committed to destruction, as deep and final as possible. They don't even care about themselves. It's total nihilism. It's inhuman. It's monstrous. It's twilight zone scary. It's the innmates burning down the town.
The gop cannot govern them. At some point, the gop will either give up, like so many who are resigning and retiring, or they'll surrender to the daily mindless slaughter of the gladiators. They'll ride the wave for a time and then make a quick exit to lobby the future gladiators for whatever baubles tumble out of their pockets.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-the-fbi-anger-worry-work--and-fears-of-lasting-damage/2018/02/03/899a7442-086f-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_fbi-1244pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c5a747cbe3b3
Inside the FBI: Anger, worry, work — and fears of lasting damage
In the 109 years of the FBI’s existence, it has repeatedly come under fire for abuses of power, privacy or civil rights. From Red Scares to recording and threatening to expose the private conduct of Martin Luther King Jr. to benefiting from bulk surveillance in the digital age, the FBI is accustomed to intense criticism.
What is so unusual about the current moment, say current and former law enforcement officials, is the source of the attacks.
The bureau is under fire not from those on the left but rather conservatives who have long been the agency’s biggest supporters, as well as the president who handpicked the FBI’s leader.
Bureau officials say the accusations in the document produced by House Republicans are inaccurate and — more damaging in the long term — corrode the agency’s ability to remain independent and do its job. One law enforcement official summed it up bluntly: “There’s a lot of anger. The irony is it’s a conservative-leaning organization, and it’s being trashed by conservatives. At first it was just perplexing. Now there’s anger, because it’s not going away.”
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