Thread by @mgoldfarb999

1/ The Republican Party Is An Organized Gang of Sociopaths >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> “Trump doesn't care how many people in Omaha were stranded for hours in the freezing cold >> over 3 miles from the nearest road or parking lot

2/ >> after he's[Trump] left his rally >> putting some in the hospital[Because of the freezing cold] >> And he clearly doesn't care how many people die of Covid >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

3/ One of the defining characteristics of a sociopath is that they view themselves as the only "real" humans on the planet >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> and everybody else is basically a prop in the amazing story of their lives

4/ >> Other people >> they[Sociopaths] think >> don't feel emotions or pain or anything else with the intensity that they do >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

5/ They[Sociopaths] believe they're the only ones who matter >> because they're the only ones who truly exist >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

6/ The Republican Party >> starting in 1980 >> has brought that sociopathic worldview to politics >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> and made it a cornerstone of policy as well as a criteria for elective office

7/ >> Reagan didn't care how many people were harmed or died because of his "government is the cause of your problems" or "starve the beast" policies >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

8/ George W. Bush didn't care how many Americans or other human beings may die because of his lies about Iraq and WMD: if it helped him politically >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> it was all good

9/ >> But Trump and the GOP's sociopathy isn't limited to using supporters as props and letting the people he thinks of as suckers suffer from hypothermia >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

10/ The Republican-controlled EPA just authorized five years of a deadly pesticide being poured onto our food >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> so giant corporations and their shareholders could enjoy more profits

11/ >> The Republican-controlled Interior department is destroying our national parks and selling off public land to GOP-donor mining and drilling companies >> The Republican-controlled Agriculture department is cutting people off food stamps during the Trump Depression >>…

12/ …per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> while the Republican-controlled Department of Housing and Urban Development is trying to throw poor people out into the cold during a pandemic

13/ >> The Republican-controlled Justice Department is openly giving a pass to criminal Republican operatives >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> supporters and donors >> while prosecuting critics of their racist >> police-state tactics

14/ >> The Republican controlled CDC and FDA are cutting corners for big Pharma to help Trump win the election >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> while putting the lives of millions of Americans at risk

15/ >> The Republican-directed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is promoting privatized so-called "Medicare Advantage" plans that often wipe out seniors who get sick >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann

16/ >> while they[Republicans] devastate Medicare itself and will make it difficult to pass Medicare for All legislation >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

17/ Republican-dominated media organizations and radio and TV stations daily traffic in easily-disproven lies and are constantly trying to gin up racial hatred >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> all to benefit the oligarch class

18/ >> Republican-aligned billionaires financed a multi-million-dollar campaign to put rightwing judges on the Supreme Court >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

19/ >>and those [rightwing] judges are preparing to repeat their 2000 scam of handing the White House to a man who lost the popular vote and only seized the Electoral College through voter suppression >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

20/ There is not a single elected Republican with any consequential profile in America who acknowledges the dangers of climate change and the straightforward solution of ending our dependence on fossil fuels >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

21/ [no elected Republican who acknowledges the dangers of climate change and the straightforward solution of ending our dependence on fossil fuels because] simply because fossil fuel billionaires own them all >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

22/ Republicans celebrate the Citizens United Supreme Court decision because it nakedly allows billionaires and giant corporations to own politicians and political parties >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

23/ Republicans embrace white racist gangs that pretend they're "militias" because they'll intimidate people of color who tend to vote Democratic >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

24/ Sociopathy cannot be "cured"; it can only be controlled >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >>

25/ Sociopaths need to be identified >> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >> isolated from society >> and restrained in ways that limit the damage they can do to others

26/ >> This is a central tenant of psychotherapy [limit the damage they can do to others]>> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >

27/ and America must apply it[limit the damage they[Sociopaths] can do to others] to politics as well >> before these Republican sociopaths totally destroy our nation and gut democracy around the world >> -Thom>> per bit.ly/31ScKiR BY @Thom_Hartmann >

@threadreaderapp unroll