‪Dear Republicans

@steveschmidt. @preetbahara‬

Podcast interview and my summary of our descent into chaos and lawlessness at the hands of republicans, evangelicals and billionaires.

I Agree @NewtGingrich @FoxNews and other compromised Russia propaganda pushers media outlets are largely responsible for the election of Russian Mob Boss Donald J. Trump. But we cannot discount role of @Putin @NRA @KKK @DavidHKoch @CharlesGKoch with “TeaParty.” The most lawless republican candidates are all Tea Party Candidates selected by @NewtGingrich who hand picked them because they had a compromising past and could be extorted and controlled easily.

I am of the belief however that conservatives who facilitated two stolen elections (Gore Bush: Popular Vote: 50,996,582 (Gore) to 50,465,062 (Bush) Electoral College: 271 (Bush) to 266 (Gore) and Trump Clinton (Clinton) 2.9 million more votes nationwide, a margin of 2.1% of the total cast, (Trump) won Electoral College, 306 pledged electors out of 538) by @gop gerrymandering, @gop compromised voting systems, @gop voter suppression and @gop compromised recounts in order to gain AND keep power for the #KochBrothers were the build up to the disaster we are now in. I also think Democrats were asleep and did not do enough to solve these problems when they could (@TheDemocrats),

As Craig T. Nelson once said to me on a Southwest Airlines flight when he verbally attacked me for talking to his “son” about activism, “you are about as liberal as they get.” I am a liberal but not a socialist liberal. I believe in many of the conservative principles but in a lighter fashion.

I have voted Republican in the past, but after being putting together for myself what has happened over the last thirty years and the demonization and division that has gone on prior to Trump’s election, I would never vote for another republican again. I believe I am not alone in this position.

The conspiracy, to me within our boundaries seems to be between Cult Prosperity Evangelicals who preach to ignorant sheep, using them for a political gain, authoritarian billionaires who disdain democracy, Putin and the Russian Mafia, @NRA (compromised by Putin) and the Republicans. This conspiracy has been lead by the very secretive group called #CouncilOnNationalPolicy (indicating a connection to the KuKluxKlan) and other less secretive conservative “think tanks.”

Heritage Foundation

Freedomworks

American Enterprise Institute

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Lexington Institute

Claremont Institute

Hudson Institute

Cato Institute

Hoover Institution

Project for the New American Century

Center for Security Policy

Foreign Policy Research Institute

Center for Immigration Studies

Center for Strategic and International Studies

The Federalist Foundation

These “think tanks” have certain qualifying principles, all fear based and white nationalist protective, which blame immigrants and people of color for problems in the USA. They seek to keep White Men in power in a “small federal government” concept except when it comes to “Cult Evangelical Christian” beliefs like keeping women marginalized and enriching the very wealthy in the USA as if they are the ones who keep us safe and provide us with our livelihoods. These organizations are currently responsible for the humanitarian crimes occurring in USA today (kids in cages, teens in military camps, migrant asylum seeking families separated, massive for-profit incarceration system growing by the day, dismantling of public schools and the health care system).

I believe these organizations have lied to the American People for so long, both liars and people who have been lied to do not know truth from fiction anymore.

I believe Putin installed Trump, I believe Trump is a Russian Operative and uses extortion to get what Putin desires. What Trump desires is directed by Putin who extorts Trump. Trump is helping Putin exact revenge on the USA, demonize his enemies (Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama), both men are opportunists at the right place in the right time along with lots of Russian Hybrid Warfare Grooming. Ultimately, as a liberal I do believe that in order to not keep making the same mistakes again and again, If I have associated myself with a group of people who use corruption to gain power and then the corruption gets out of hand by the opportunism of a hostile foreign power whom those I associate myself with enlisted for assistance somewhere along the line, I have to own my personal part in that corruption. I have to know where I failed, when I went to sleep, what I ignored, how I contributed to the downfall. I don’t believe we dealt with the Russian KGB properly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We should have done more to limit their power and intervene in Putin’s expansion of power as he was the one who connect the KGB with the Russian Mafia, hence the Donald Trump Connection.

A summary of my political exposure since age 10.

Eisenhower: my parents loved him, I love him, he was a hero.

Kennedy: I did not understand much, I was junior in high school when he was assassinated. I believe Russia assassinated him, Martin Luther King and Teddy Kennedy as well as Gandhi.

Johnson/Vietnam: First husband lost his mind in Vietnam, I hated that war but not the soldiers, felt the soldiers were lied to, first by Johnson, then Nixon, understand Nixon manipulated war to win election and Johnson decided not to run in disgust.

Goldwater: Senior in High School, Senior Government teacher worked hard to get Goldwater elected. I learned so much from that teacher who showed us an example of how to believe in something and work hard to try to make it so. I go back to some of Goldwater’s quotes about Cult Evangelicals every once in a while in my tweeting just to remind people that someone knew and warned us about them.

Nixon: Felt Angry the entire time. Just gave up during his presidency with all the corruption, thought it is hopeless and the Federal Government dose not matter anyway.

Clinton: in all the years @GOP have been demonizing the Clinton’s no one has ever found any chargeable offenses — except a blow job where semen got on a dress in the Oval Office. Perfect, no, but viciously targeted and marginalized by the republicans, yes, their entire public career. I was furious @KenStarr_BU and @NewtGingrich during this time. I do understand their goal was to destroy the Clinton’s forever. I don’t understand this level of hatred, Conservative hatred for liberals.

Bush I: seemed like mostly moral people, but did some really weird stuff that seemed somewhat extreme to me.

Carter: peanut farmer, moral, religious, humanitarian but out of his element.

Bush II: I had a stomach ache the entire eight years watching the lies and manipulations of this administration. I really do believe this was the solidifying of the chaos we have arrived at now.

Obama: a good, moral, ethical man who made good decisions for the Country but was viciously demonized and marginalized by corrupt republicans. Again, not a perfect man but a good man who was a great president. I love his sense of humor and his humanness @barackobama will always be my favorite president.

Hillary: What a raw deal she got. Again, viciously demonized, marginalized and sabotaged by corrupt republicans. I think she would have been a powerful president. So many people did not know the truth from propaganda in the last election. I think now people are waking up. I hope so. I hope it is not too late. Your assessment of Hillary as an unelectable candidate is only valid based on the demonization of her by republicans and Putin. It shows that you still have a good deal of hatred for liberals and possible powerful women.

Trump would not have won the election without Putin’s interference. Declining life expectancies for white men was a key issue in your narrative, Revulsion against self interest of the elite, all of which seem like biased propaganda informed hateful beliefs of conservatives about liberals. Republicans, we have found are all of these things they accuse the democrats of and they project their crimes on to democrats. What the republicans did was exaggerate these concerns so that they seemed catamount. This is Russian Propaganda in all of the countries you mentioned which by Putin is currently carrying our Russian Hybrid Warfare. Fear is stoked by Putin, conservatives and the conservative media and “think tanks.” Putin is the origin of the fear and the negative narrative and the conservatives pick it up and run with it. This allowed republicans to capitalize on the small margins of our population who deal in fear, the very wealthy and the very ignorant. The republicans and Trump are masters at projecting their corruption onto others, blaming others for what they are doing all the while claiming to be victims of those awful, corrupt, mean Liberals.

Leader validates victimization. Becomes victims protector. Requires subversion of personal sovereignty. Truth is what the leader says it is, no matter what the evidence. And here is where we have arrived.

For our information, 36% of voting population for republicans equals 25% of total USA population. Opportunism by Trump and Putin has allowed them to stoke fear into a frenzy for these already edgy people. For Putin, that sounds like “We have the ignorant and the wealthy where we want them, now is the time to act.”

Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller are the Ideologists who believe the ideas and conspiracies forwarded by Putin. Trump is the Blank Slate Demagogue you mentioned, except being a Russian Mafia Boss he is not a blank slate. Then @NewtGingrich and #KochBrothers helped to corrupt the legislation who is now terrified to stand up to Trump. It is all together possible they are being extorted as Putin is an expert at getting personal, private information (secrets) about people in order to extort influence over then. Preservation of party and agenda over country has been a contributing factor as well.

This is my 71 year old assessment of the situation. Have I missed anything?

Steve, I feel the same way about my Country as you do. I believe in people having respectful differences. My father (a staunch conservative) and I used to have political “battles” during my young adulthood. My sisters and my Mother would roll their eyes when we would start. They were a lot of fun for me. Barry Goldwater was not conservative enough for my Dad.

Raising money is easy for republicans as they are funded by corrupt billionaires @DavidHKoch @CharlesGKoch who want to return us to the constitution ending with the Bill of Rights where white men were the only people in USA with rights. It was republicans idea for us to send Citizens United to SCOTUS to solidify this principle and keep billionaires #KochBrothers in power. Democrats have taken dark money because they have to in order to compete. That is going to end. Now we are faced with a final step in the complete undermining of Executive, Legislative and now (Kavanaugh and many other compromised conservative judges) being “considered” for SCOTUS.

Love your Podcast Preet

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stay-tuned-with-preet/id1265845136?mt=2&i=1000417482069

Will try yours, Steve and see how it goes. I sometimes have difficulty listening to “former” republicans who accepted the corruption in advance of the agenda for so many years. but I do forgive you for that and would love to have a conversation with both of you before I die.

While in Washington, DC last week to check out the #KremlinAnnex, at the train station headed back to New York I ran into @AnnCoulter face to face. She was looking for the gate, I knew where it was so I told her, then I realized she was Ann Coulter (though she denied it). I told her if she was I would not be mean to her, I would only want to tell her that I love her and that we are waiting for the conservatives to come to their senses so we can get our Country back on track.

Thank you for listening to my story.