Trump-Biden Debate

Smedley said:

OMG did you see who liked Terp's post -- NAN!!

C'mon Nan, if you're lurking and liking, you can post. You know you're dying to get back in the game.  

 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I think Biden is going to match Trump stride for stride on Trump's favorite playing field - the Twitter. 

Enough with the racist dog whistles, Donald. You wouldn’t know a suburb unless you took a wrong turn. https://t.co/jodPtc0YDE

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 30, 2020

GOP is sending out fundraising requests asking folks to join the “Trump army.”

“Germany bears witness to an uncomfortable truth—that evil is not one person but can be easily activated in more people than we would like to believe when the right conditions congeal. It is easy to say, If we could just root out the despots before they take power or intercept their rise. If we could just wait until the bigots die away…It is much harder to look into the darkness in the hearts of ordinary people with unquiet minds, needing someone to feel better than, whose cheers and votes allow despots anywhere in the world to rise to power in the first place. It is harder to focus on the danger of common will, the weaknesses of the human immune system, the ease with which the toxins can infect succeeding generations. Because it means the enemy, the threat, is not one man, it is us, all of us, lurking in humanity itself.”

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Caste 

Isabel Wilkerson

GL2 said:

GOP is sending out fundraising requests asking folks to join the “Trump army.”

“Germany bears witness to an uncomfortable truth—that evil is not one person but can be easily activated in more people than we would like to believe when the right conditions congeal. It is easy to say, If we could just root out the despots before they take power or intercept their rise. If we could just wait until the bigots die away…It is much harder to look into the darkness in the hearts of ordinary people with unquiet minds, needing someone to feel better than, whose cheers and votes allow despots anywhere in the world to rise to power in the first place. It is harder to focus on the danger of common will, the weaknesses of the human immune system, the ease with which the toxins can infect succeeding generations. Because it means the enemy, the threat, is not one man, it is us, all of us, lurking in humanity itself.”

Excerpt From

Caste 

Isabel Wilkerson

Trump is definitely inciting violence and civic unrest or even civil war. So it is tempting to compare with the US civil war, but maybe the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany in the 1930's is a better comparison.

“The right kind of leader can inspire a symbiotic connection that supplants logic. The susceptible group sees itself in the narcissistic leader, becomes one with the leader, sees his fortunes and his fate as their own. “The greater the leader,” Fromm wrote, “the greater the follower….The narcissism of the leader who is convinced of his greatness, and who has no doubts, is precisely what attracts the narcissism of those who submit to him.”

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Caste 

Isabel Wilkerson

Pedantic posts? Yes.

Right on the money in 2020? Yes.

nohero said:

I think Biden is going to match Trump stride for stride on Trump's favorite playing field - the Twitter. 

Biden used the term.

Trump: Are you in favor of law and order?

Biden: Law and order with justice where people get treated fairly.