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GiqueCee

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4. Lee is a psychopath...
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 07:27 AM
Jun 21

... utterly devoid of conscience, and therefore, incapable of shame.
In October of 2020, he wrote this:
“Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy* can thwart that."
Lee just said the quiet part out loud; but every Republican believes that, to one degree or another, or they wouldn't be Republicans. Though they might phrase it a bit more delicately, there can be no question that the GOP has always hated the very concept of democracy. Why do you think Republicans applauded the German American Bund when they filled Madison Square Garden to overflowing in 1939 in celebration of Hitler and the Nazi Party? BTW, Charles Lindbergh was the keynote speaker that night. He should be nobody's hero.
It was also Republicans that tried to organize a coup against FDR in '33, but mistakenly tried to recruit Marine General Smedley Butler (ret.) to organize the wetwork. Instead, he dropped a dime on 'em, and exposed the plot in a Congressional hearing. Congress, of course, did nothing. Dubya's Grandpappy, Prescott Bush, was reportedly one of the conspirators, though the whole thing was covered up, and flushed down the memory hole.
It would take more time than I've got on this Earth to compile a comprehensive list of Republican treachery against democracy in America, but vast troves of documentation are out there, and not that hard to find.

* Emphasis mine.

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