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The Cult of Bullshit
“A globalist is a person who wants the globe to do well,” said President Trump at a Houston, Texas, rally on October 22, 2018, “frankly, not caring about our country so much.”
A globalist is the enemy of the MAGA cult. The MAGA cult is always horny for star spangled bullshit. See, our country would still do well because it is part of the globe, too.
The twin Republican policy priorities are privatizing public services while deregulating private industry for the benefit of narrow moneyed interests and at the expense of the general welfare — insisting on the greatness of the Constitution while saying it would otherwise be dreaded socialism “to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity….”
They always do this. Dumb it down. It’s a regular pattern: if we support gun control policies, it’s “You’re banning guns!”; if we oppose a border wall and harsh asylum policies, it’s “You’re for open borders!”; if we oppose Israeli settlements and occupation of Palestinian territories, it’s “You’re anti-Israel and antisemitic!”; it’s never a policy debate, it’s always reductio ad apocalyptum.
In fact, the only place any real policy debates are happening is in the Democratic Party. There is no…