I've lived this before.

[no_hypocrisy]

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As Sen Tim Scott (R-SC) explains, the MAGA GOP embraces a concept that political scientists know as the "Führerprinzip," under which all the thoughts of all members of the party are fully subordinated to a single man. Scott: "There's only one leader of the Republican party. That person is Trump. Time for the party to remain united and divide the Democrats. We have too much in common . . . and the American people need to see one unison agenda with one vision led by president Donald Trump."

This was the "platform" espoused by my father. (I'm in charge of The Family. The Family should be cohesive. The Family shouldn't be divided by malcontents. I know what's best for everyone. I'm always right and never wrong. The Family is stronger united.)

Trust me, you don't want to live like this.

[Blue Dawn]

1. I lived it, too.

And you are absolutely right.

[gab13by13]

2. Scott is laying the groundwork

for Trump to make Congress toothless, to make it irrelevant, it won't matter who controls Congress, TSF will rule as a king, by Executive Orders.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes Scott is telling congress members to give up all their power.

Trump will own all three branches of government and the entire federal bureaucracy.

What could go wrong?

[yardwork]

3. It's why so many U.S. men vote Republican.

The Republican Party reinforces the belief that men should rule their families. A lot of religious institutions reinforce this too.

[jaxexpat]

9. I'd bet the concept, "a man's home is his castle", resonates with every MAGAt, especially the testosterone damaged ones

Complete with dungeon, high tower isolation quarters and great halls for the communal dinners, it's a parody of the American dream.

[GiqueCee]

5. Flowery phrases...

... and specious reasoning may sound fine at first blush, but it's still just smearing lipstick on a pig.

This toady, Scott, is trying to legitimize Trump's contention that he is the lord and master of all he surveys, and all the peons must bend the knee to his capricious and self-serving whims, no matter how malicious and destructive they may be.

Guess again, asshole.

This is the warm-up act for justifying dictatorial authoritarianism and the establishment of open-ended martial law, so that Trump can wreak havoc with zero accountability. This cannot be allowed to happen under ANY circumstances. It is Putin's checkmate move in his psychotic determination to destroy America from within, because he knows he would lose a shooting war with the U.S. His troll farms have been very busy, and very effective in muddying the waters, and misleading, with their relentless propaganda, the low-wattage intellects that are Trump's "base".

Remember that every accusation is a confession. Trump sorta gave the game away when he spoke of "the enemy within." The enemy within is that treasonous sonofabitch himself, and everyone who enabled and supported him. But it's also time to start paying much closer attention to the Machiavellian machinations of the greedy oligarchs that have undercut the TRUE will of the people for their own financial benefit, not to mention their malevolent and insatiable craving for dominion over the lives of others, most often referred to by its euphemism, POWER.

This ain't over.

[wendyb-NC]

12. Thank you. You are absolutely right.

[COL Mustard]

13. King of all he surveys?

Sounds like Yertle the Turtle, if you ask me.

Didn’t work out so well for him.

[GiqueCee]

15. Trump's life history...

... is an endless trail of failures and insanely bad decisions. Why would his stated desire to be a dictator be any different? And since when has collateral damage ever bothered him in the slightest?

[Historic NY]

6. Make congress eunuch's

[surfered]

7. The Republican Party didn't even bother with a platform in 2020.

It was just whatever was rolling around in their Dear Leader’s head.

[louis-t]

8. The mixing of politics and religion never works.

Every religious faction will claim their way is the right way. The GOP will never agree on anything. I look forward to the infighting and eventual shunning of almost everyone he is now 'appointing'. The same shitshow as before but with even less competence. Elon will be the first to go. He's rattling too many cages already.

[usonian]

11. That "Holy Roman Empire" lasted some time.

That said, they swapped Godfathers in and out.



I find it interesting that Caligula wants to end the EV subsidy, with a little fine print to help skuM.

We used to hope that gangsters would just kill each other off and leave citizens alone. It didn't work out except in rare but notable cases.

A happy ❤️ Valentine's ❤️ day?

Too far away. About the only hope is that brutal gop infighting makes for media headlines.

[stillcool]

10. older than time

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seems like it's a 'normal' human psychosis.

‘The Family’ on Netflix: Which Politicians are Connected to the Secret Christian Group, According to the Documentary?
By Anna Menta
Published Aug. 9, 2019, 12:30 p.m. ET

The series is based partly on Jeff Sharlet’s 2008 book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. Sharlet, a journalist, also executive produced and narrates the series, walking viewers through his own brief stint living with members of The Family in a communal-living house, where he describes a cult-like experience. The Family, Sharlet explains, has an extremely unorthodox reading of the Bible and an enigmatic motto: “Jesus plus nothing.”

[Wounded Bear]

14. Forms of theocracy, where the head of state was also head of the state religion...

have been one of the most common forms of government in history, regardless of whether it was a monarchy or empire or whatever.

The Greeks and Romans, who introduced forms of limited democracy and republicanism tended to be more secular, which is where the founding fathers got their initial ideals from. The Greeks kind of drifted away, in part maybe because while their mythology was largely common to all there wasn't an organized religion with a single high priest. The Romans eventually succumbed to the Christian faith. The Western Empire fell and the Pope lost much of his political power for a few centuries. The Eastern Empire survived for many centuries as what we now know as the Orthodox Christian bastion, which fell to the Muslims in 1453.

European governments were for centuries nominally independent yet their policies and decisions were heavily influenced by the Catholic Pope in Rome. The religious wars of the 15th-17th centuries broke up that dominance to a degree, but the violence was something the founding fathers tried to avoid with their freedom of religion clause.

Our constitution made a valiant attempt to separate religion from government, but it appears human nature doesn't easily make that distinction. Are we drifting toward Gilead? Hoping we're not will not make much difference. Hopefully, we are not in for a period of physical violence, but it could happen. There is a scary number of guns out there.

Those who operate under the delusion that they are doing "God's Will" are not easily dissuaded, and will justify anything imaginable to gain their ends.

[onecaliberal]

16. I did too.

[republianmushroom]

17. This is the republicans party, period.

"Führerprinzip," as defined above.

[Skittles]

18. there's another name for it: FASCISM

FUCK THAT