Although moving-toward-pleasure strategies don’t always produce immediate changes in behavior like moving-away-from-pain strategies do, they can last far longer and be far more powerful if properly reinforced.
It’s been around 70 years since the McCarthy era. And most Americans today have no direct memory of its excesses and the damage done, both to families targeted and to Americans’ trust in our institutions of government.
There are many lessons to be learned from this year’s election. The main one right now, though, is that because the RNC failed three times to protect America from a dictatorial madman that job now falls to us.
“Look at my entire Deep State target list,” Ivan Raiklin said. “That is the beginning. This is the scratching of the surface of who is going to be criminalized for their treason, okay?”
From the founding of our republic, protecting the power of the press to call out anti-democratic behavior has been a firewall, protecting our form of government. It is their job.
If Trump is elected, the six Supreme Court Republicans just gave him near-Putin-like powers to end our democratic republican form of government, as Justice Gorsuch said, “for the ages.”
If you want to see what Republicans have in mind for the rest of America if Trump or another Republican becomes president and they can hold onto Congress, just visit the Old South.
Republicans and Trump keep referring to a post-constitutional era where the middle class, civil rights and even the rights of women to vote would rolled back.
The new GOP motto might as well be, “We don’t need no stinkin’ issues; we just want power and revenge for the heroes of the Old South and the New Insurrection.”