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Impeachment Inquiry Is Legal, Now Hand Over That Secret Grand Jury Evidence You Scoundrels!
Lindsey Graham - also known by his stage name, "piece of sh---t" - introduced a wholly meaningless r
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Deny, deflect and distract. Pathetic, but par for Trump’s course.
This was apparently discussed on fox news the other day, as “their” legal expert/ judge pointed out reality to the shocked listeners who tuned him out:
After Republican members of the House literally stormed the gates of the impeachment hearings on Wednesday, Judge Andrew Napolitano stopped by Fox & Friends Thursday morning to deliver a harsh wake-up call: Democrats are just “following the rules”–rules written by Republicans.
“I read the House rules,” Napolitano said. “And as frustrating as it may be to have these hearings going on behind closed doors–the hearings over which Congressman Schiff is presiding–they are consistent with the rules.”
There’s no getting around this, nobody in the GOP has a working brain!
It’s worth understanding that to many GOP voters, trump can kill people and not be held accountable — and as a mob, the GOP collective brain is just as insane as the whacked out super liberal brain. However, somewhere in-between the super nazi GOP freaks and the super liberal freak, there is a vast majority of people who can discern a more balanced sense of reality and they can see insane behavior for what it is, because they have contextual experiences which allow them to be objective versus being brain washed.
This is a lot like fanatical religion and deeply held convictions that are linked to passion and crime. In all fairness religious zealots from the GOP wouldn’t care if FLOTUS has an abortion or poses in the nude in a lesbian photoshoot and they don’t care if the president kills anyone and they don’t care about the law. These are the people that will start a violent civil war, because, trump is god.
Here’s an old research piece that helps open that door:
Red brain, blue brain: evaluative processes differ in Democrats and Republicans.
In particular, a recent study of young adults suggests that liberals and conservatives have significantly different brain structure, with liberals showing increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, and conservatives showing increased gray matter volume in the in the amygdala.
These results suggest that liberals and conservatives engage different cognitive processes when they think about risk, and they support recent evidence that conservatives show greater sensitivity to threatening stimuli.
Democrats showed significantly greater activity in the left insula, a region associated with social and self-awareness. Meanwhile Republicans showed significantly greater activity in the right amygdala, a region involved in the body’s fight-or-flight system. These results suggest that liberals and conservatives engage different cognitive processes when they think about risk.
In fact, brain activity in these two regions alone can be used to predict whether a person is a Democrat or Republican with 82.9% accuracy. By comparison, the longstanding traditional model in political science, which uses the party affiliation of a person’s mother and father to predict the child’s affiliation, is only accurate about 69.5% of the time.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130213173131.htm
Conflating the far right with the “far” left is a false equivalence, leaving only the “normal” people who agree with you as “experienced” and “objective”. You need three dimensions, perspective and context, as you note, to make such a proclamation. One could look at it in a comparative sense, and say the far right appear to adhere rather closely to the point of view of the Latin American ruling class over the past 50 years, and the far left appear to adhere to that of the centrists in Western Europe over the same period. The ideas are very similar.
Perhaps it is wrong to suggest that there is some equivalence between the far left and far right, because it’s kinda axiomatic and obvious the far right is far more dangerous than the left. The far left might actually support a Socialist society that in theory seeks equality and fairness for all members, where as the far right tends to want to kill those they hate. Most far right zealots tend to look for daddy figures to provide strong authoritarian structure, where as liberals have the sin of being too soft and touchy feely — so going back to red brain blue brain, you do have distinct social outlooks and behaviors. This all gets into social inequality, politics, religion and the growing inability of government to govern — which also presents the case of fascism and protectionism and having political parties devolve into bullying and criminal behaviors, like we have now with trump and the GOP.
Additionally: “This is why fascism flourishes in moments of great anxiety, because you can connect that anxiety with fake loss. The story is typically that a once-great society has been destroyed by liberalism or feminism or cultural Marxism or whatever, and you make the dominant group feel angry and resentful about the loss of their status and power. Almost every manifestation of fascism mirrors this general narrative. ”
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/19/17847110/how-fascism-works-donald-trump-jason-stanley