This was so long ago I'm not sure I was even born then.
Has anyone ever written a better sentence than this one by Ring Lardner?
“’Shut up,’ he explained.”
How many innocent people have to die in order that Donald and Pete can feel manly enough?
"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
-Abraham Lincoln
The "just world" in social psych = belief that even innocent victims deserve their fates b/c (only) bad people are punished & (only) good people are rewarded.
How do you hold onto that when the world's 1st trillionaire is a neoNazi?
Hell, the mere *existence* of a trillionaire is sufficient disproof
Trump announces "maybe I'll seize the capital of the US if voters displease me" and it'll be nothing more than a blip on the news at best
When Hitler fell, the purging of that mindset wasn’t de-Hitlerification, it was de-Nazification. When Saddam fell, it wasn’t de-Saddamification, it was de-Baathification.
When Trump falls, it will be de-MAGAfication, not de-Trumpification. The entire movement’s hatred and corruption must be purged.