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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Except that, quite possibly, pure truth doesn't motivate turnout.
I mean, not unless you can utilize it in such a way that it creates significant rage.
(And that's probably about as unbiased / bi-partisan a political statement as I'll ever make)
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The indisputable truths from the last year and a half of Trump leadership should be creating more rage on the left and in the center than the last decade of Fox News propaganda and fearmongering combined. I don't mean pee tapes and porn stars and nitpicky pointing out of hypocrisy. If the direct words that come out of our president's mouth on a daily basis and the ease with which members of his own party in congress are willing to excuse his words and actions on a daily basis are not cause for enough rage to motivate record turnouts this fall and in 2020 if, god forbid, Trump is still president then... well, we're proper fucked. Most likely, we're proper fucked as a nation anyway. We're spiraling out of control, I think we're past the point to bring it back in to where we can ever debate with any amount of reason ever again. The divide will continue to grow until we break, quite possibly in my lifetime.