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Crip Dyke's avatar

Eh, the statement was fine, but I'd prefer the inclusion of a section something like,

"The GOP has immersed itself in the promotion of hatred for so long it is actually opposed to loving people marrying each other and living together happily for the rest of their lives. It is so immersed in the promotion of government interference in the personal, private lives of US citizens, that it still lies about healthy children being aborted by healthy moms halfway through labor after a full term pregnancy just so that it can insert its own party apparatchiks into the room with a doctor and a pregnant person who does need or want an abortion. This is a party so devoted to lies that it still defends Colin Powell's falsehoods to this body that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, including thousands of noble US volunteer servicemembers. So I find it no surprise that when they look into the correspondence between a loving father and a troubled child looking to make of himself something better than he has been, they literally cannot recognize love. They cannot recognize generosity. They cannot imagine a helping hand lifting someone up without a corrupt and selfish motivation.

When you listen to the Republicans today, remember that these are people who literally don't know love. I would pity them if the consequences for our nation were not infinitely more disastrous than the consequences that occur when one of its citizens becomes addicted to legal medications or illegal drugs.

If only there were a rehabilitation centre that specialized in addiction to hatred, deceit, and bad faith."

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Jennifer A's avatar

The fundamental thing is that Republicans simply don't understand kindness and decency and empathy. Such things do not exist inside them, so to see it in other people it must be a sham, a grift, a lie, a cover for nefariousness. It's literally the only thing that makes sense to them, their brains cannot compute that a father could love his addicted son, that a man could dedicate his life to public service from a sincere desire to make things better, that a President could be motivated not by power or personal gain but by a sense of duty to honor and bring out the best of America. And so, because they don't understand these motivations, they project their own sociopathy onto actually decent humans and spend their lives trying to figure out where the lie is....because deep in their cold black souls there is a scared, lonely, angry part that wonders....what if others actually *are* decent? What might that say about me? That line of thought leads to a black hole of shame....so they continually build the brick wall around it higher and higher and higher, and lucky for them, there are a LOT of people (top of the list: FoxNews) supplying the bricks.

Meanwhile, how anyone can look at Joe Biden and not see one of the most decent men on the planet astounds me. I feel the same about Hillary.

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