1/ Me, 10/23/2018—When this gruesome and uncivil war for the soul of democracy is but a distant memory, with some perpetrators long behind bars, I will reflect back on the allies I made in the trenches of truth.
2/ The brave-hearts who spoke truth to power and wouldn’t stand down, and those who understood the gravity of the depravity.
“A malignant narcissist has a false self which is extremely grandiose but extremely fragile and it has to be constantly rebuilt on a moment to moment basis. On some level, it’s recognized as a false self and that’s why Trump will speak in the third person.”-@DMRDynamics
“It has to be replenished moment to moment and the part that complicates it with Trump is the sadism: the way that he knows if he’s ‘better,’ is by having the ability to humiliate. You either have to be so great in his eyes, that he holds you on a high on a pedestal like Putin.”
“...or he has to be able to humiliate you. If he’s not dominating you, he can’t trust you and the trust is always in the service of building him up.”-@DMRDynamics
I get misty when I read the words a gentleman from the UK wrote when he signed my @MoveOn petition to investigate Trump’s digital campaign “Project Alamo” and Cambridge Analytica nearly three and a half years ago.
His words so powerful, fueled by what he was witnessing at home.
His words are prescient and haunting:
“This is about transparency in democracy, political integrity and the future direction of our world and society...
“A political electoral system that is maintained by lies and misinformation to retain power without having the courage to stand up to scrutiny regarding it's claims is an abhorrence which must be nipped in the bud...”