Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Pollster reveals what convinced Trump voters to get vaccinated" video.

  1. "Until Republicans return to reality and become responsible, they should not be trusted with power again." That's been obvious for some time, the same warning I have been advocating, but it's good that Rep. Maloney is amplifying that message. More Americans need to understand this.
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  2. The Molotov cocktail recipe: Mix in equal parts of mental illness, lies, willful ignorance, fear, hate, greed, decades of 24/7 Reich-wing disinformation, misinformation, and crackpot conspiracy programming by Republican politicians, plutocrats, media and demagogues, add supplemental divisive Russian propaganda attacking and weakening America, stir well, garnish with COVID-19, and you have the mindless Republican cult descending into fascism, committing terrorism and sedition. Then, grab a stiff drink--you'll need it.
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  3. Luntz ignores that it is Republicans who have politicized this pandemic, and it is Republicans who continue to politicize it, spreading lies. It isn't just Republican politicians, demagogues, and media putting party before country by politicizing COVID-19---it's Republican voters, too, putting not only party before country, but party before their own lives and well-being, and the lives and well-being of their loved ones and fellow Americans. He also wants Biden to credit Trump for Operation Warp Speed, but Trump doesn't deserve credit for that; it was American and German pharmaceutical companies that developed the vaccine, not the U.S. government. Moreover, Russia, China, and the UK all developed vaccines just as quickly, demonstrating how it is the advancement of the science involved that deserves credit for the speed vaccines were developed----NOT the prowess of any U.S. politician, whatever their political affiliation. Regardless, Biden would give him credit he doesn't deserve if it really would help, but we all know that Trump is never going to reciprocate, because he doesn't care about his own supporters, only himself. That's why Trump took the vaccine in secret, remember, Frank? That's why Trump kept perpetuating the Big Lies about COVID-19, remember, Frank? That's why we have over a half-million Americans senselessly dead, remember, Frank? It is Frank Luntz who is more concerned about the politics than American lives and the good of the nation, more interested in protecting the Republican brand than anything else.
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  4. As political commentator and former Republican presidential advisor Mark McKinnon so aptly put it recently, "The Republican party is at dysfunction junction." May disagree with conservative ideology and with their stances on many issues, but do value and respect LOYAL opposition--a duty that the GOP has for too long forgotten and abdicated, putting personal and party interests before country. That is not only harmful to their party, it is harmful to our democracy and institutions. And it has come to represent a clear a present danger to our nation, a serious threat to our very security. All of this is mentioned because it is firmly believed that this is not a time for diplomatic, soft-spoken words. This is not a time to be timid or Pollyannaish about our current political landscape, but a time for frankness, a time for acknowledgment of defects, a time for courageously confronting stark unpleasant realities. Our democracy is a fragile construct, only as sturdy, vibrant, and enduring as we maintain it, requiring constant vigilance and due diligence. Just as we don't forget Pearl Harbor, or 9/11, even more so the attack against our nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021 by fascist Reich-wing domestic terrorists incited to insurrection by a deranged President against his own government must never be forgotten or forgiven. Thus, we MUST condemn both cowardly, corrupt Republican so-called "leaders" defying truth, justice, duty, democracy, and Constitution--and their dysfunctional political party that behaves as a cult--in the strongest possible terms, using the most muscular language that can be mustered. For it is necessary; the very fate of our nation depends upon it. Disaster was narrowly averted with the defeat of Trump, with Democratic control of the House and Senate, but the battle for the soul of this nation is far from over, and we must never again allow ourselves to become complacent. And so it is vitally imperative that we remind each other of this, that we impress these things upon our children and fellow citizens of this nation. "Call this civic barbarism. Instead of promoting the values of responsible citizenship, Trump, Republican leadership, and their media enablers have elevated and blessed the very worst among us. They are making many Americans less suited for self-government and more dangerous to their neighbors. And they are doing so for the reason some of the Founders most feared: To lead the mob against true democracy." ~ Michael Gerson, from _'Trumpism is American Fascism'
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  5. Education to the fascist Republican cult means programming lies, fears, and hate into people, while discouraging critical reasoning, independent thought, and objectivity.
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