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Swede

(35,368 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 09:43 AM Jan 27

Refusing to Be Complicit - Steven Beschloss

In his first week, the newly inaugurated president has proven once again that he rejects our laws, values and principles. It's a mistake for Democrats to try and work with him.

Anyone who’s spent time with an abusive narcissist understands the dilemma: If you just go along to get along, you’ll never escape their grip. And if you confront them, they will do anything they can to make your life a living hell—until you get away or they leave forever.

America is trapped right now in this ugly nexus, thanks to millions of Americans who identified with Donald Trump’s anger and hatreds or didn’t comprehend the dangerous choice they were making.

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/refusing-to-be-complicit?r=bb6o8

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Refusing to Be Complicit - Steven Beschloss (Original Post) Swede Jan 27 OP
I refuse to be complicit. Kid Berwyn Jan 27 #1
No nazi Sympathizers Allowed. Think. Again. Jan 27 #2
Appeasement never works. Ocelot II Jan 27 #3
By coincidence, I was just reading an article about narcissistic abuse William Seger Jan 27 #4
That is very good Cirsium Jan 27 #5
K&R, agree with everything Beschloss wrote Martin Eden Jan 27 #6
K&R Solly Mack Jan 27 #7

Kid Berwyn

(19,191 posts)
1. I refuse to be complicit.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 09:47 AM
Jan 27

Always have refused to support the Wall-Street-on-the-Potomac way:

"To get along, go along." - Sam Rayburn, (D-Texas) quoted in "Forge of Democracy" by Neil MacNeil

Ocelot II

(123,026 posts)
3. Appeasement never works.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 10:20 AM
Jan 27

Just ask the ghost of Neville Chamberlain. He thought giving Sudetenland to Hitler would satisfy him but the next thing Hitler did was invade Poland and start WWII. Hey, Chuck Schumer, don't be Chamberlain; be Churchill.

William Seger

(11,390 posts)
4. By coincidence, I was just reading an article about narcissistic abuse
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 12:07 PM
Jan 27

Don't try to play games with them -- the only way to win is to get out.

Cirsium

(1,770 posts)
5. That is very good
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 12:08 PM
Jan 27

"But we have a chance to overcome this dark chapter with a clear, fearless opposition. That will require elected officials refusing to work with him and abandoning the idea that collaboration is the only way they can mitigate the damage he will cause or accomplish something themselves. The more they give him, the more he will take. The more they communicate that they accept his dominance and respect his power, the more he will exploit their vulnerability, particularly because he sadistically relishes harming and demeaning others."

That is so clear and simple. We are hearing all sorts of excuses and rationales for the politicians who are compromising with Trump, normalizing him, stroking his ego, doing photo ops with him. voting for his nominees. No, no, no, no. It is extremely dangerous.

Senators Peters and Slotkin - I'm looking at you. Shame on you for voting for Noem and for the Laken Riley Act. That is not what Michigan Democratic voters sent you to Congress to do. We sent you there to fight Trump, not to grovel at his feet and cave in to him.

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