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There has never been a more anti-patriotic political group than the Republican Party.
Shame!
With Republicans taking the House, the fox is in the hen house. >

I baited one of those clowns at work once. I was basically calling him and people like him cowards in a quiet and polite way. But, I did it within earshot of our HR VP which the dude never noticed was there.
He got real angry screaming that I was a fucking moron and then kicked and dented a filing cabinet.
Soon after he was put on a 'Perfornance Improvement Program' but then he went on stress leave and I never heard from him again. >

Shit watch your back I bet he’s got a list your prob right under hunters laptop and the Hillary Clinton. >

Actually, he had no idea I did anything intentional.
To him I was a dumb liberal who didn't  know any better and it was just bad luck he lost his temper in front of the HR VP. >

The libs got him again.  If you’re blaming liberals that’s your life went to shit maybe you’re the problem.  And prob vote against your interest. Lol >

A lib did intentionally get him in this situation though >

It’s not mandatory to beat the shit out of office furniture because you got your fee-fees hurt, though. Snowflake ain’t got nobody to blame but themselves. >

I don’t know I personally wouldn’t push dumb peoples buttons especially in a work environment >

Considering half the USA no longer requires any kind of permit to carried a concealed gun, I am shutting the fuck up and staying the hell away from people who even seem a little off.
There may be a small number of people willing to go on shooting rampages, but living in America and never had been around one feels like I am playing the odds. >

This feels like uncharted territory further into fascism. >

It's not uncharted territory though. We seen this play out almost over and over again when various other countries were taken over by fascism. We know where this is going, we can see where it is going. Yet we move slow to actually hold these people accountable >

Spell it out for me, please.  Major void in my education.  All I can guess is if something happens to a previously anonymous witness, then no one will be willing to testify again.  But, what historically happens at that point?  People in power are no longer held accountable for crimes? … and that means they just stay in power? >

So it's a little more complex than that.
Here is a very good quote that explains it better than I can, but if you need me to expand as best as I can let me know!
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way."
Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 >

Thank you for this.  I’ll let you know if I have any questions.