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    "If hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." Nikola Tesla

    "Between 5,000 and 7,000 hate crime incidents are reported each year to the FBI." AP

    "Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil

    Does hate create evil, does hate allow evil. Do Mike Pence, Sean Hannity, Brad Parscale, Stephen Miller, Mitch McConnell, Evangelical preachers acknowledge the work they do in and for this administration hurts people, children, families, the environment, and not just immigrants - the latest scapegoat for the easily influenced, easily led. Are God's children only white and wealthy? Is there some hopeful and helpful goal that salves their consciences or is this just a consequence of groupthink and follow the leader. I return to the nuns' refrain, omission is as bad as commission - maybe worse.

    Eight million dollar reduction in food stamps, five hundred thousand children would lose lunch programs, eight million dollar reduction in housing supports, all this while the wealthy pay less to support the republic and the government that provides the tools and laws that protects their greed. The greatest irony is that many of the people hurt, the areas hurt most are often areas of the nation that support republicans, that support Trump. The southern white, the rural white, the poor white are the biggest participants in food stamps and children's lunch programs.

    What purpose do these policy changes serve, does hatred of the other enter the picture or is it that they just don't care? Omission again. Their goals are simple, nullify the caring state, the consequences be damned. They want to eliminate the ACA, deny food for needy children, roll back education reforms, then add in the selection of judges* and policy makers who are simply sycophants for corporations and injustice.

    Pres Trump is a psychopathic personality, for him none of this matters, as the naive news person asks him hard questions he creates a reality that doesn't exist, he points fingers and they are always directed at another. No conscience exists in this man, that oddly is his appeal to many Americans, he says their dark thoughts out loud. Why hide your bias, prejudice, and lack of compassion, it is open season. Is there any need to explain that phrase.

    We are all immigrants in America, it is time people faced that fact and worked to make all lives better, not just cheer an administration that is un-American to its core.

    Impact of Trump's policies:

    'Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks' https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/

    'Trump Administration Commission On Unalienable Rights Politicizes Human Rights For Hate'
    https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-rel...ghts-for-hate/

    Click on the map for examples of hate: https://americasvoice.org/trumphatemap/

    If you’re transgender or an immigrant or just poor, Trump and his most hateful backers don’t believe you deserve access to health care.'
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b0304a12097fef

    "Nor is kindness, in and of itself, evidence of the presence of good. I’m sure there were people who would have gladly attended or even facilitated the lynching of my ancestors just as they would have politely brought a cherry pie to a neighbor. In this country ugliness and politeness are in no way incompatible." Carvell Wallace

    Organization that fights hate: https://www.lifeafterhate.org/

    Books:

    'Five books to shed light on America's problem with white supremacy'
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...history-racism

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/....Becoming_Evil

    https://fivebooks.com/best-books/cru...il-paul-bloom/

    *'Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted' Ian Millhiser
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22715946-injustices

    Readings:

    "Humans universally make Us/Them dichotomies along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, language group, religion, age, socioeconomic status, and so on. And it’s not a pretty picture. We do so with remarkable speed and neurobiological efficiency; have complex taxonomies and classifications of ways in which we denigrate Thems; do so with a versatility that ranges from the minutest of microaggression to bloodbaths of savagery; and regularly decide what is inferior about Them based on pure emotion, followed by primitive rationalizations that we mistake for rationality. Pretty depressing."

    http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd...s-other-people

    The 10 neuropsychological symptoms of evil: https://aeon.co/essays/is-neuroscien...evil-behaviour


    "The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves." Eric Hoffer
    Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.

    "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire

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    Consider that these companies hire these workers because they can treat them badly and get away with it, as money, not justice or law manages America today. Now they can even get away with not paying them as ICE does the devil's work. If the company obeyed the law they would not hire them in the first place - so where is the crying about justice from the right wing apologists for hate? Where.

    And who suffers but the children, America if you had conscience you would care, if had a heart you would do something, If you had a soul you would elect decent men.

    https://www.knoe.com/content/news/Ch...528004681.html

    'Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers'

    "No other industrial country treats its working class so badly. And there’s one big reason for that."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/o...or-unions.html

    "Corporate propaganda directed outwards, that is, to the public at large, has two main objectives: to identify the free enterprise system in popular consciousness with every cherished value, and to identify interventionist governments and strong unions (the only agencies capable of checking a complete domination of society by corporations) with tyranny, oppression and even subversion. The techniques used to achieve these results are variously called 'public relations', 'corporate communications' and 'economic education'." Alex Carey 'Taking the Risk out of Democracy'

    Books:

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nvisible-hands
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
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    "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire

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    One key point of this thread is that Pres Trump is a psychopath, the news item below is just another confirmation of that point. Psychopaths function best in a society or nation with freedoms in which their lack of a conscience allows them to say or do anything and the next day deny it or gaslight it. This happens almost daily in this administration, and yet Americans who are not psychopaths hear the lies and oddly accept them. Some even say, well that's just who he is not realizing they are acquiescing in these lies and even the hate filled words.

    "President Trump is seen in newly released video recounting the crowd size at his rally earlier this year in El Paso while speaking to hospital workers in the city who treated victims of a recent mass shooting."

    https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-paso-hospital

    And injury to misery to injury

    "In general, the most common political topic for Trump’s campaign ads is immigration, according to an analysis by Bully Pulpit Interactive. Ads referencing Trump’s anti-immigration policies have accounted for 21.9% of Trump’s spending since 23 March. The next most common topics are “fake news”, the economy and socialism. He has spent just $767.99 on ads about healthcare since 23 March, and none on childcare, housing, the minimum wage, or climate change."

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...anti-immigrant

    'What social media can do to stop hate'

    https://www.axios.com/social-media-h...0e6ccd713.html


    Trump whoppers and yet they still follow....

    https://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/trumps-greatest-hits/
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    Why will republicans and so called conservatives not tackle tough issues? No replies to this thread as it is too deep for them, they prefer the pablum Trump feed them daily.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...Donald-America


    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...in-Trump-World
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