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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would talk about the Constitution and the systems of checks and balances, division of powers, separation of power. Then I would point out the great gap: the Framers and indeed subsequent Congresses never envisioned a President that just ignored rule of law and a Supreme Court and Congress that was too cowed to do their envisioned roles.

I would show examples of how the press, in this era of pay per eyeball and intimidation, use weasel words to sanewash or normalize capricious overreach by the Executive Branch. Unprecedented, unusual, extraordinary...bull$hit.[/quote]

We do talk about this kind of disconnection between people who think the media isn't harsh enough despite the never ending criticism of the president by most of the media, the belief the president is breaking laws when he has complied with every court order to date. We do talk about why the left is so hysterical when challenged, yet so blind to dissenting views when activists and provocative when in power, whether it's trans rights or ignoring mass illegal migration. We do talk about why some people approach politics with the fervor of religious faith and ideologies and how belief in some kind of superior moral "right side of history" can actually corrupt people's thinking and turn them into tyrants and that there is often a great deal of cruelty hidden within the demands to "be kind," and the irony that those who shout ne kind the loudest are often among the least kind and most hateful, and we talk about how this is bolstered by no shortage of polls showing the left to be far more contemptuous and intolerant of the right than vice versa, and why this may play a role in how despite low approval ratings for the president and GOP, the Democrats are even less popular. We do talk about how it is all very weird. [/quote]

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