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FrankTC

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14. No Smoke Rising . . . .
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 09:22 AM
Jun 2020

I've often thought that Republicans are the true snowflakes. Even brain scans indicate that conservatives tend to be more threat sensitive than liberals. However, fear-stricken Republicans are discriminating in their fearfulness. Their paranoia is attached to some types of threats more than others. Global warming, global pandemics -- these don't elicit a realistic level of concern. On the other hand, brown people, muslims, gays -- these are seen as agents of doom, the end of civilization. It's difficult to understand the distinction. Perhaps it's a function of right-wing propaganda? That is, Republicans fear whatever their leaders tell them to fear, and they scoff at whatever their leaders proclaim to be a hoax? But their leaders must have a basis for making the distinction. Perhaps a differentiating factor is the type of social response necessary for protection: military and police-state measures designed to attack and punish allegedly bad individuals vs. welfare-state measures that would either place limits on corporations or directly enhance the health and prosperity of all.

Fire & Rain [View all] H2O Man Jun 2020 OP
⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R ⭐️⭐️⭐️ spanone Jun 2020 #1
Thanks! H2O Man Jun 2020 #2
I'm going to remind you of something Bandy Lee said recently coeur_de_lion Jun 2020 #3
Yes. H2O Man Jun 2020 #5
That is what we need coeur_de_lion Jun 2020 #7
Living in rural PA for the past 13 years has been eye opening. livetohike Jun 2020 #4
Yep. H2O Man Jun 2020 #6
Well, reading the comments Scarsdale Jun 2020 #11
But but but malaise Jun 2020 #8
Ha-ha!!! H2O Man Jun 2020 #9
What I will never get is that they always say they hate losers malaise Jun 2020 #10
Well, let's see Scarsdale Jun 2020 #12
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Jun 2020 #13
And may he lose the election hugely! burrowowl Jun 2020 #15
I'm living for November 3 malaise Jun 2020 #16
No Smoke Rising . . . . FrankTC Jun 2020 #14
Well said! H2O Man Jun 2020 #17
I've been laughing a lot the past week. malthaussen Jun 2020 #18
Right. H2O Man Jun 2020 #19
They are terrified, but their terror is largely self inflicted and so not my problem. Warpy Jun 2020 #20
Definitely! H2O Man Jun 2020 #21
That's a prescient observation bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #22
Great questions. H2O Man Jun 2020 #23
There is a lot of mental triangulation being seeded into discussions here bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #25
Right. H2O Man Jun 2020 #26
"I know, dear reader, that like myself, you are thinking that the word "Noble" surely applies." soldierant Jun 2020 #24
Very good! H2O Man Jun 2020 #27
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