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Nice stunt but totally ineffective and actually a Maga Virtue Signal of sorts for DeSantis, I assume he's making a play to grab power from Trump either forcefully or wait him out and take over as Maga 2.0 leader. Either way, he feels like a wolf in sheep's clothing to me.

But i'm so tired of hearing about hypocrisy. It's irrelevant and a cope. Hypocrisy, and every other stupid label (racist, homophobe, conspiracy theorist, etc) only works in one direction.. The powerful get to decide what labels mean. If I'm king, I don't care what you call me. But what I call you DOES matter because i have power.

The problem with trying to convince anyone that X group is Y label is that people know instinctively who has the power. Whites are out (and have been for decades). Constitution is out. Republic is out. Capitalism is out. Justice is out. Fair trade is out. The reason? Because those who held those ideals are out. They're no longer in power. The masses are followers and just go with the flow. If the powerful say Black Lives Matter, they go along with it. They may not even like it or believe in it, but they follow the powerful because they're powerless. It's hard to be a dissident. There's a price to pay.

So DeSantis or Trump or anyone else can say whatever they want to try and sucker the heritage Americans who still think the 1950's or 1980's can make a comeback, but it's never going to work. Because we don't have the power. And even heros like Huey Long who had quite the following, couldn't grab the power. Masses are irrelevant. The proles will never have power and the worse you treat them, the more compliant they become. The thing about bread & circuses is a lie. The Roman rulers didn't need to keep their masses entertained and fed to appease them. They could have just as easily starved them out, but there was prestige in throwing out food and free entertainment. It was a show of POWER. Not the other way around.

We complain about Republicucks, but they're part of the show. They know who has power and they're going to stay on the friends list. Same with AOC. She and her weirdo friends could have probably grabbed some power, but nope. She bowed and kissed the ring of that 80 year old day drinker Peolosi.

So what to do? Withdraw and wait it out. Pray the madness gets much worse for it's really our salvation. Power corrupts right? Well corruption destroys. So let those in power destroy it all and quickly. Become friends with someone powerful who aligns with your beliefs. Help them take power. Then we get to decide what labels to throw around. Who is a degenerate, who is corrupt, who is a race betrayer, who is greedy, who can stay and who needs to go. It's how power works in reality.

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John Bottomley's avatar

Spot on article - especially how liberals (I, too, used to be one) have become the party of hypocrites...

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