26th July 2018, 6:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 26th July 2018, 6:27 PM by A Black Falcon.)
... Seriously, why are 30-something of Americans still so enamored with this traitorous idiot that they obey his every command, ignore every fact, and even seemingly throw away their belief in America just because he says so? And for THIS person? How did this happen...
The latest is that Michael Cohen will testify that Trump knew about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians about Hillary info before it happened. Somehow, though, even with ironclad proof of collusion, if it is found as does seem very plausible, most of Trump's followers probably will not waver in their support for him. And with that, we return to the first paragraph of this post...
Now, I do understand some of the reasons why Russia is now popular on the right. As opposed to the atheist, left-wing dictatorship of the Soviets, now Russia is ruled by a religious, right-wing dictatorship. Russia stands as the one hope for traditional values in the West, in the eyes of the right -- it is one of the few major nations still extremely anti-gay, and this counts for a lot. Somehow the old Catholic/Protestant-Orthodox split matters less now than that they are again Christian and oppose homosexuality, trans rights, and all of those important things. This isn't Soviet Russia anymore, it's now on the other side of the spectrum. In a lot of ways this means very little changed, but to American conservatives I'm sure the religious change means a lot.
And on top of that, Russia is supporting right-wing nationalist groups across the US and Europe. They are doing this because undermining NATO and the Western democracies gives Russia more power and influence in the world and not because of any genuine agreement with those people, but people like Trump, Brexit supporters in the UK, and more all don't seem to care about that so long as they keep getting help from the Russians. Undermine the whole world order, just to give Putin more power and wreck stuff? Sure, sounds good to me, they seem to be saying! We hate international organizations, they take power away from us, and we don't care about any of the consequences. (On that note, apparently the UK has already seen more economic damage done because of Brexit than they spend per year on EU dues and payments, and this will only get worse as the process continues. But as we also see with Trump's tarriffs, wrecking your economy in the name of a bad idea seems to be a fine idea for these people...)
And that's not even getting in to how Russia likes to murder dissidents not only in Russia but also in other parts of Europe, support the most violent dictators in the world, etc. For some people it's disgusting that they would even consider taking support from the Syrian government's protector, to name one example, but I imagine a person like Trump is just jealous that he can't do that kind of thing... we are very lucky that most of our democracy is, so far, still intact.
The latest is that Michael Cohen will testify that Trump knew about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians about Hillary info before it happened. Somehow, though, even with ironclad proof of collusion, if it is found as does seem very plausible, most of Trump's followers probably will not waver in their support for him. And with that, we return to the first paragraph of this post...
Now, I do understand some of the reasons why Russia is now popular on the right. As opposed to the atheist, left-wing dictatorship of the Soviets, now Russia is ruled by a religious, right-wing dictatorship. Russia stands as the one hope for traditional values in the West, in the eyes of the right -- it is one of the few major nations still extremely anti-gay, and this counts for a lot. Somehow the old Catholic/Protestant-Orthodox split matters less now than that they are again Christian and oppose homosexuality, trans rights, and all of those important things. This isn't Soviet Russia anymore, it's now on the other side of the spectrum. In a lot of ways this means very little changed, but to American conservatives I'm sure the religious change means a lot.
And on top of that, Russia is supporting right-wing nationalist groups across the US and Europe. They are doing this because undermining NATO and the Western democracies gives Russia more power and influence in the world and not because of any genuine agreement with those people, but people like Trump, Brexit supporters in the UK, and more all don't seem to care about that so long as they keep getting help from the Russians. Undermine the whole world order, just to give Putin more power and wreck stuff? Sure, sounds good to me, they seem to be saying! We hate international organizations, they take power away from us, and we don't care about any of the consequences. (On that note, apparently the UK has already seen more economic damage done because of Brexit than they spend per year on EU dues and payments, and this will only get worse as the process continues. But as we also see with Trump's tarriffs, wrecking your economy in the name of a bad idea seems to be a fine idea for these people...)
And that's not even getting in to how Russia likes to murder dissidents not only in Russia but also in other parts of Europe, support the most violent dictators in the world, etc. For some people it's disgusting that they would even consider taking support from the Syrian government's protector, to name one example, but I imagine a person like Trump is just jealous that he can't do that kind of thing... we are very lucky that most of our democracy is, so far, still intact.