Originally Posted by
sonatine
the absolute worst part of this is that their redemption narrative is going to be written by the fucking democrats.
bidens going to normalize all this and call for unification, no one will ever be held accountable, and the cyst growing in the heart of the right wing will never be lanced. these fucking yokels will elect whatever bright shiny goof makes them feel smartest by comparison and create more mass casualty events to 'own the libs'.
I agree about who they are at their core, but their lives are miserable and they are easily manipulated. The left has misplayed their hand by attempting to talk to them as adults or reason with them based on logic.
Trump has a predatory intellect where he recognizes and cultivates cannon fodder, while we spend our time reasoning with people who are stubbornly stupid, trying to explain to them why their lot is worse with him. They are psychologically more similar to battered women, and he gets that, and we don’t, so who is stupid here is up for debate.
They are poor, dumb, and heavily armed. I don’t view Civil War or revolution or Ceo’s getting dragged from their homes and dragged from a Chevy impala as a negative. I view it as eventual, and we are going to have to get through. We aren’t going to legislate sanity.
The cultivation of the mob, and how best to aim them at the right homes when it comes time is where the left is continually getting outplayed. Making intellectual arguments rather than emotional arguments to a group that gets frustrated by the former and loves the latter.
If you’re ever around anyone truly dumb, and try to explain something of any complexity, they get easily agitated and would rather pound their head against the wall than try to work through it. You’re asking of them something outside their skill set.
I have a much different view than most on the left who think progress is going to be achieved through some linear upward trajectory based upon the respect of law and improved critical thinking. That’s high minded university talk.
I don’t know how progressives look at culture and think this shit is getting better. We have never had a segment of the culture so idiotic. We also have real deeply entrenched corruption through both sides of our government and the wealthy aren’t giving back the politicians they’ve bought. They’re all going to need to be killed at some point.
Trumps ability to weaponize a sizable segment of the population is to be studied. It’s impressive. Unfortunately he’s a mentally ill fraud of a human being. He never had any interest in draining any swamp. It’s a shame he didn’t.