2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis May Be The Most Horrible Thing That Donald Trump Believes
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offered a litany of racist comments, which it turns out may be rooted in his deeper belief in the inherent superiority of some people ― and not others.
The Frontline documentary The Choice, which premiered this week on PBS, reveals that Trump agrees with the dangerous and abusive theory of eugenics.
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The Huffington Post dug back through the archives and found numerous examples of Trump suggesting that intellect and success are purely genetic qualities and that having the right genes gave him his very good brain.
Read more and see video clips: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eugenics_us_57ec4cc2e4b024a52d2cc7f9
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It's hard to keep up with the deeply disturbing issues of Trump, how we got here, etc. But here's another one, and the root of so much of the horror that is Trump.
He leaves me without words, only great despair at the number who fervently support him.
raging moderate
(4,308 posts)Germany was not the only country that had Nazis; it was just the first country they took over. They were and are everywhere.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Republicans are trolls.
They have no actual values. All they do is attack their enemies with whatever vomits out of the mass of squirming maggots they use for grey matter in their empty skulls.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)he considers himself superior to most white people, too. We're just farther down his list.