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PCIntern

(25,554 posts)
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 08:49 AM Apr 2019

I may have missed the discussion here about "The Highwaymen"

which was the very fine exposition of two men empowered by the governor of Texas to go after Bonnie and Clyde and kill them. Spoiler alert (although everyone knows the couple was killed in an ambush): the film ends with a montage of crowds of people who worship the killers encircling the car containing their bullet-riddled corpses like Beatles fans did in the Sixties. Earlier in the film, a group of adoring young women encircles the car parked behind a store and they oohs and ahh "dreamily". These two sociopaths were elevated to mythic hero status by an oppressed populace which loved the fact that banks who had repossessed their homes were being robbed. It's the same psychological hold that Trump has on his followers: he's the anti-hero here to avenge all the slights or perceived slights perpetrated upon the working man. The fact that they are immoral, amoral, sociopathic narcissists is irrelevant to the Cause.

In our case, there appears at this time to be little will by "law enforcement" (read: Congress) to enforce the Rule of Law and use measures to quell this infestation of this miscreant and his minions. The fact that Trump can so easily and proudly refer to Roy Cohn as his attorney and role model attests to the level to which we have descended. I expect the American narrative will soon be complimenting the Hitler Nazis on their sharp uniforms, efficiency, singularity of purpose, resourcefulness, and attention to detail. Then we can start placing American citizens in cages since the Thought Police will have unfettered scope of powers, and why feed and house them when they can just...-POOF- vanish into thin air. Think it can't happen? Anything is possible....anything.

Oh yes, and Happy Easter and Passover everyone...

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I may have missed the discussion here about "The Highwaymen" (Original Post) PCIntern Apr 2019 OP
our history is full of bad ppl elevated to hero status in the moment, then later we say Kurt V. Apr 2019 #1

Kurt V.

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1. our history is full of bad ppl elevated to hero status in the moment, then later we say
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 08:58 AM
Apr 2019

' that person was actually bad '.

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