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(36,203 posts)talking about the Senator.
Mike 03
(17,130 posts)He seems to be talking about how the American people generally feel they've lost control over their lives, and how Trump capitalizes on this fear of loss of control by saying he can exert control, for example control over immigration and the border.
His key point seemed to be that autocratic populists like Trump exploit fear.
But I only heard that last minute. Sorry.
JustAnotherGen
(33,732 posts)Well now I'm the one who has to live with fear for the next four years.
Jit423
(380 posts)They have control over their lives. They just need to stop being patsies and suckers for the billionaire class. Start making demands on corporations like they make on government to stop the fraud, waste and abuse. And that includes gouging, speculation and organized corporate buying of new housing starts that only makes owning a home unaffordable for most working men and women.
Americans haven't lost control of their lives, they have willingly turned their lives over to the RW-MAGA-media and GOP. They have obeyed in advance the authoritarian supporters and the would-be tyrants. They have willfully blamed their fellow citizen-victims for an imaginary loss of control.
whathehell
(29,840 posts)2naSalit
(93,100 posts)I just had lunch and I will not subject myself to nausea inducing katy tur!
Duppers
(28,258 posts)He was definitely worth listening to.
Cha
(305,693 posts)Don't have a TV?
Thank you
IA8IT
(5,910 posts)hlthe2b
(106,571 posts)Unless she is holding a live high-powered electrical wire, I'm not interested. (and damn it all, if she was I would feel obligated to step in).
Cirsium
(1,021 posts)You can share what he said with us on OUR media - right here.
MSNBC has a small audience of people who were already opposed to MAGA.David Pakman has a larger audience ffs. They are grifters, milking that for the last 9 years for $$$$. Democrats go on there to preach to the choir, to raise money and support from us. It is dishonest and counterproductive. They are not winning any converts to the Democratic party there. They are not stopping MAGA by appearing there.
Katy Tur?? Katy Tur??? Never.
drray23
(7,995 posts)That government doesn't work, a favorite trope of the right wingers.
If government did not work, planes would not be flying, people would not get their social security checks or medicare/Medicaid reimbursements, national parks would be destroyed by real estate developers, oil companies and who knows who else, the air your breeze and water your drink would be toxic, employees would be paid below minimum wages, be made to work in horrible conditions reminiscent of the 19 th century,
Crime would be rampant and epidemics would ravage the country.