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Not sure if i fully understand, just will make the obvious point that to have the most influence you have to be in government first.

"Link back Fua, no difference between the quest for wealth and power
Between the Dems and Repugs ;)
So, with Justice that just about covers it."

So the quest for power at least is a given under any democratic system.

The system goes extra awry when one of the only two major parties, as the GOP in your case, is taken over by radically right-wing extremists whose lust for power overrides all else, as has happened since Obama won power and they decided to block every piece of legislation his administration put forward.

Which actually takes us back to Jim Wright's analysis,

Insurrection, One Year On

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And by and by, given the nature of social media, I reconnected to old friends, those very men I had once so admired, the ones who trained me in honor, duty, professionalism, and the skills to see the truth through chaos.



And I was horrified.



You see, a liberal black man had just been elected to office.

I voted for him. Yes, I did. Not reluctantly, but with enthusiasm. Proudly. Obama, my God, he was young and dynamic and smart and educated and articulate and kind and compassionate and funny and all the things that made me proud to be an American.

I'm still proud that I voted for him, twice, voted for the first black president not because he was black but because he embodied the very best of what this nation might be.

But what does that have to do with January 6th?

How did we get here? To this moment?

That's how.

President Barack Obama.

Because the election of a young, dynamic, smart, educated, articulate, kind, compassionate, and funny liberal black man galvanized the foul racist mean underbelly of this country like nothing else ever had.

Those who attacked the Capitol a year ago today. They are in almost every regard, the antithesis of Barack Obama, mean, crude, uneducated, ill spoken, filled with rage and blind ignorant loud blustering false patriotism.

And those men I had admired? Those veterans I respected?

Like me, they were trained to be objective. To put aside their own bias. To demand proof. To require evidence. To check and doublecheck the information.

And they threw all of that away, all of it, when a black man took office.

They forgot everything they ever knew.

They forgot who they had been.

They watched Fox News all day and they lost their humanity. They lost their objectivity. Without the supporting structure of the military and the purpose it gave them and the impartiality our profession had imposed upon their worldview, they lost their very identity.

They became, literally became, different people.

It was horrifying. Like watching a loved one eaten alive by Alzheimers.

They included me on increasingly insane email chains that quoted Nancy Grace, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck as fact. They sent me racist mails quoting the comedian Jeff Foxworthy as if that guy was some sort of expert on anything. They posted racist memes to their Facebook pages and said with a sly wink, it's not really racist if it's true. Heh heh. They sent me dire proclamations from the NRA how the negro in office was somehow coming to take their guns -- these were men who'd been trained in firearms by professionals, who'd served honorably in war, who laughed at a bunch of unholstered swaggering goons like the National Rifle Association and yet here they were now suddenly quoting Ted Nugent.

And it got worse.

It got so much worse.

They joined the fucking Tea Party. They began to trade in the most insane and ridiculous of conspiracy theories. There was no lunacy too great, no rage so unhinged, that they couldn't embrace it if it came from Rush Limbaugh. And then when the next election came, these men that I had once so admired, who had served steely-eyed in war and who would have once risked it all for the truth, who had once led every day by steady example and who had been supremely contemptuous of those blustering frauds, the paper warriors, those of stolen valor and empty bravado, suddenly these same men were cheering ... Sarah Palin.

How did we get here?

That's how.

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which likely has much truth to it.

See also:

"impervious to facts"

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Obama was elected by the people. Your conservatives had no respect at all for that from the Caucus Room restaurant meeting on his first inauguration day.

"What's new? Politicians always select judges for confirmation. Policticians are selected by the people and the politicians tend to follow the will of the people. So Courts represent the collective will."

Mitch McConnell Vows to Block Biden’s Entire Agenda Just to Be a Dick
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...What Happened to America’s Political Center of Gravity?
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Consider McConnell's lost desk under the number of bills he is holding up.
Extreme obstructionism, possibly the worst in America's history, promotes anarchy.
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In his The Blackmail Caucus he mentions your GOP crowd's propensity to make the U.S.A. virtually ungovernable
.. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=81110067 .. you would remember the Caucus Room restaurant meeting
in which a group of GOP power people decided to deny Obama all legislative success .. to sabotage anything the Dems got through,
as Obamacare .. and to blame all economic damage they did on both parties .. a false-equivalence line you yourself love to us.
.. that's one of a few here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125467625

On "GOP, party b4 country everytime.
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as inserted into - They believe in Trump's 'Big Lie.' Here's why it's been so hard to dispel
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