There are so many ways in which contemporary right-wing discourse is diseased that in my previous article on the topic I could barely scratch the surface.
I focused on how embracing myside bias justifies cruelty and amorality in dealing with one’s political opponents and disfavored groups. But it also fosters a victimhood mentality, which is similarly an outgrowth of rejecting liberal values on principle. Victimhood, on the one hand, and hatred, sadism, and cruelty on the other, feed into and reinforce one another. We’ve got to do it to them because they want to do much worse to us. How can we be expected to restrain ourselves when our enemies want us to die and will do whatever it takes for that to happen?
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These people are so out to lunch it is scary. Like the peanut gallery debating who is going to wear the proverbial crown once the axe drops. Historical it’s been the average joes who do the killing and the dying, history records the creations that claim to be in charge after wards but in these sorts of circumstances Stalin wasn’t a somebody, neither was Hitler nor Mussolini. And neither were their second or thirds. Unless they were coops from the old regime that were ‘true’ believers. And Vance and what ever passes for mainline conservatives these days are not fascist, are not nationalist and are definitely not Caesar material. Speaking from mass of the ground pounders, the millennials and younger generations of disenfranchised men being raped by the system (take you pick which); these ‘Men’ of power and influence don’t have any sway over us. They are not our leaders. Their rhetoric and the fascist dog whistles are just words, their actions are however far more telling where their allegiance is too. Money. And yeah Jewish money. Vance and all his ilk belong to people like Thiel or Adelson. These people loyalties are not to America or the Average American. And like it or not the elites are playing tribalism because they’re tribalistic. They care about Jews, Israel and their religiously fanatic elites. The average joe in the USA doesn’t want to destabilize institutions, doesn’t want the world to effectively collapse or change in any substantial way regarding law or order or demographics or what ever slop comes off the screens. They want to be left alone, they want a 9-5 which can afford a family and house. They want purpose which doesn’t need to be ‘rebuilding the empire’ level, they want it to be ‘a was a good dad’ level. The elites of all sides and leaning think they can mobilize the masses? Yeah they can but it will be to take their head and everyone else who was even briefly identified as a problem. Their used to be a time in this country where lawmakers where shot for not representing the people, where law enforcement officers would have to stand aside as the mob carried out community justice. The independent judiciary of the people in this country hasn’t gone away it just went dormant. Woe be to he how stirs it from their slumber.