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The Dark Forces Empowered by Donald Trump: Hate Rising, by Jorge Ramos

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SirMixALot10/31/2016 4:07:21 am PDT

re: #52 Anymouse

I get that there are moonbats. I wonder how liberal the Bernie-or-Busters are, since a lot of them seem to have supported small-l libertarian Ron Paul before now.

While I have no doubt there are ā€œsincereā€ Bernie or Bust folk (some people simply cannot accept the idea their candidate lost), I wonder how much of it is rodent copulation.

In my admittedly unscientific reading of commentary on Disqus when I mix it up with others, I find a significant number of so-called Busters were not really Democrats or Democratic Socialists in their commentary. There are an awful lot of them that espouse Libertarian or Republican talking points.

Which brings up an issue: I wonder if I should bring up Wayne Allen Root with my wife. He was the Libertarian Party VP candidate in 2008. He was a wingnut birther then, and he still is today. (At the time, she was still active in the Libertarian Party.)

On the other hand, she left the Libertarian Party this year for the Democrats, so maybe it would be better to let that dog lie. Thoughts anyone?

I should clarify it wasnā€™t just Bernie or Bust people. I have friends and family who were Bernie supporters. They believed the DNC had rigged the election for Hillary. Thankfully none of them are Bernie and Bust people. They now support Hillary, but during the height of the primaries they were willing to believe conspiracy theories and ignore facts to explain why Bernie was losing. Some of them werenā€™t paying attention to politics as closely so it was a surprise for them to learn about voter suppression tactics and easy for them to blame the DNC. While others are political junkies and should know better. I was so shocked by their behavior the most. These are reasonable people I have known for years. If there is such a thing as temporary authoritarianism I guess Bernie supporters who believed in conspiracy theories fell into that category. I suspect the hardcore Bernie and Bust people who continue to believe such nonsense are the real authoritarian deal.

According to Bob Altermeyer the Political Scientists who researched Authoritarians for 50 years or so authoritarianism is always considered right wing, but it can transcend ideologies. Communist who are left wingers are authoritarians at their core. So authoritarianism isnā€™t limited to right-wing ideologies, but it is right-wing way of thinking or rather not thinking as the case may be since they lack the ability to reason. I hope I made sense.