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Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock, the husband of one of the 16 fake electors in that state who were indicted on multiple felonies last month, is warning that MAGA loyalists could escalate their violence to the level of war in an audio recording reported by The Messenger on Friday.“If the government ...

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[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/R419KgYn (fixed link)

the actual recording... and wow. I just dont even know how we can reach people like this. They are so convinced that they are the victims and that anything done to them is infringement on their right to hurt others.

I dont want to be a doomsayer but I think this country may be really screwed, without focused deprogramming they are convinced that the democrats want communism. Which is insane, because the democrats want status quo, and corporate oligarchy.

[–] steebo_jack@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dont want to be a doomsayer but I think this country may be really screwed,

I get that feeling too, like in 50 years when the rest of the world is studying what went wrong with the US, 2016-2024 will be the time period that they will be looking at...

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has been building up for a lot longer than that. Some people post to Reagan, but it's even older than that. I'd put it back to the early televangelist starting to get involved in politics. Swaggart, Graham, Roberts, Hubbard, Bakker, Falwell, and especially Pat Robertson. Bastard even tried to run for president.

[–] Rekliner@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Inevitably these discussions lead back to Nixon and his various paranoias.

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