The Paranoid Style in G.O.P. Politics - Paul Krugman
Just thought I'd share a short opinion piece I just read by Paul Krugman. It makes a lot of sense. Pretty scary. 
"But the significance of conspiracy theorizing depends on who does it.
When people on the political fringe blame shadowy forces — often, as it happens, sinister Jewish financiers — for their frustrations, you can write it off as delusional. When people who hold most of the levers of power do the same thing, their fantasizing isn’t a delusion, it’s a tool: a way to delegitimize opposition, to create excuses not just for disregarding but for punishing anyone who dares to criticize their actions.
That’s why conspiracy theories have been central to the ideology of so many authoritarian regimes, from Mussolini’s Italy to Erdogan’s Turkey. It’s why the governments of Hungary and Poland, former democracies that have become de facto one-party states, love to accuse outsiders in general and Soros in particular of stirring up opposition to their rule. Because, of course, there can’t be legitimate complaints about their actions and policies.
And now senior figures in the Republican Party, which controls all three branches of the federal government — if you had any questions about whether the Supreme Court was a partisan institution, they should be gone now — are sounding just like the white nationalists in Hungary and Poland. What does this mean?
The answer, I submit, is that the G.O.P. is an authoritarian regime in waiting."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/opinion/gop-trump-kavanaugh-conspiracies-partisan.html
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They don't give a shit about this country, just grabbing the reins of power and stealing all the $$ for the oligarchs and removing any and every single rule or law that protects the working class & poor. Those they don't remove, like rape, will only be used against minorities and poor whites and rich white guys can rape with abandon, because all women all liaras when it comes to them. They all make me so sick. 
