I know a couple of Right Wingnuts who insist Liberals are being manipulated

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NoRoadUntravelled (218 posts)
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I know a couple of Right Wingnuts who insist Liberals are being manipulated and incited to Civil War
WTF?

Mean while, there's the camo wearing, weapon carrying sheep confusing governance with tyranny on the part of the states. They're ready to "defend Democracy" and jail governors while pretending the size of their jockstraps are somehow confirmed by their AK47s, the Russian made weapons that substitute for all their insecurities.

I ask them, what will us yoga mat carrying, Sushi eating liberals do to incite a war? Throw Tofu at the Capitol Building Screamers?

How did things get so crazy so fast?

 

Star Member TheBlackAdder (15,725 posts)

2. They need to create a 'legitimate enemy' to validate their fantasies of slaughter.

Newest Reality (9,327 posts)

4. Rule One...

They project. This has been an obvious fact.

Think of them as a movie projector. There is a film produced by propaganda and conspiracy theories. The plot of the movie is about their desires and intents. They don't understand this process. They see the movie projected on the paranoid screen of their enemies, (as scripted by their manipulators) and believe what they are seeing is "out there", though all the while, it is self revealing, but a denial of the shadow elements.

Even many of the worst in history may not have thought of themselves as the problem or dirty, rotten scoundrels. Often, the projection helps them to deny their malevolence and assume they are good people doing the right thing for the right reason, when, in fact, the best means by used the worst people has the worst result in reality.

We are dealing with some deep and even systemic social psychology here. It goes far deeper than the superficial aspects that we might criticize and denigrate. It even transcends the stupidity that appears to facilitate it.

I don't think things got so crazy so fast. We are seeing the crazy that's been incubating being incited and encouraged by leaders and so it is emerging into the limelight quickly. The roaches are coming out of the wood work and they are all over the table.

 

Initech (80,634 posts)

7. Oh no this has been a long, slow burn.

It's been nearly 40+ years of unchecked hate and aggression being spewed from right wing radio and eventually Fox News. They are doing everything they can to destroy the progress being made and fighting back against those of us that are taking this thing seriously.

Nobody likes this, we all want to get back to the plans we had before the pandemic. But when we do it's not going to be like someone will snap their fingers and it will be back to normal. The economic losses are going to stick with us for a long time to come, as will the physical losses.

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Uh, the past few years of liberals buying into countless fake news stories and the fact that these posts contain a lot of dumb stereotypes about gun owners and the protestors.would seem to confirm that they are being manipulated.

Also, I haven't seen any pictures of protestors with AKs. Do such photos exist? I know the average DUer wouldn't know an AK from a lampshade, but I'm curious. I Googled "protestor ak-47", and it did come up with an image that quoted a leftist protestor as saying "If I had an AK-47, I'd mow down all those people across the street."

[BadCat]

their AK47s, the Russian made weapons

Actually Russian AKs are fairly hard to come by in the USA.   Most are former Soviet bloc manufactures.  Myself, I like the Bulgarian AKs.

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NoRoadUntravelled

Mean while, there's the camo wearing, weapon carrying sheep confusing governance with tyranny on the part of the states.

Leaders who demand that private businesses not open simply by decree is not "governance", you dimwit. Only individuals that would view that as "governance" are those who are authoritarians; ergo, you.

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[SVPete]

NoRoadUntravelled

Mean while, there's the camo wearing, weapon carrying sheep confusing governance with tyranny on the part of the states.

Somebody does not know that the basic meaning of "tyranny" is governance that violates exist law/constitution. Thus, tyranny could be with benign intent and effect. Whatever the intent of Whitmer and similar officials, their actions of governance are tyranny.

[jukin]

You can't tell me that the DUmmys would not have been hardcore NAZI party members.