Thread by @mhbx

@tommy_pane I have read your reply. A couple of times.
I'll forebear the puzzled response. Other than to notice your amazing (to me, really it is banal, obvious, and expected by now) ability to contort basic facts into a shape that solicits a picture of a seriously gerrymandered district.

@tommy_pane 2/ What you have to ignore, & what you have to "interpret" in order to buttress your argument is so comprehensive there is nothing left of the original facts.

Your assertions/conclusions are so divorced from the facts/reality that it stuns the ability to actually engage.

@tommy_pane 3/ Which I suppose is the point of a 'religious' devotion. There is no way to contradict a "miracle". Beliefs override knowledge/science/facts.

Your beliefs are impregnable.
Which is fine. It is part of the liberty you(we) have. But it doesn’t allow for meaningful discussion

@tommy_pane 4/ Trying to discuss these matters, re Trump, is like engaging a flat-earther (I presume you are not one).

There is nothing that can be brought to bear on the discussion that makes the slightest dent.

@tommy_pane 5/ Last:
Re your assertion "most people are happy".
I suppose you do not include the banks & investors who were left holding the bag of billions$$ of his bankruptcies. Or the many contractors he refused to pay. Or the family he defrauded. Or the "charities" he stole from.... or..

@tommy_pane 6/ The list is endless.
This latest of the campaign stealing people's money by trickery & f/kery is just the latest.

The suffering Trump inflicts on even his "supporters" is astonishing. That you are so agile in defending it, no matter what it is, is simply stunning.

@tommy_pane 6/ Well. I guess I did not forebear after all.

I have the experience of trying to get someone to accept the basic proposition that 2+2 = 4.

You see it as 5. And so it is 5 to you.
But there is no common ground at the fundamental level of what is and is not a fact.

@tommy_pane 7/ For all that, Thanks.

It has been instructive.
It provides insight into why and how it is that the nation is so riven.

The syndrome is not new. It is a fundamental division laid into the fabric of the country from the beginning. I just thought we might have got past all

@tommy_pane 8/ that. That maybe we might have actually progressed.

But no. Not really.

And it took only someone like Trump to water these dormant seeds and take over the weak republican party and make it his.

And now we have a new faction...threatening a new civil war.