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I heard people say that Trump is a weak persons idea of a strong person, seems pretty accurate.
That's the thing I don't get. These "strongmen" are fucking cry babies.
Like the media darling Kyle Rittenhouse. Fucking cries while he's on the stand.
Beer pong Brett Kavanaugh fucking crying on national TV from questioning.
Trump, literally, any day every day about how he's some sort of victim.
How the alt right sees these men as the paragons of strength and leadership is beyond me.
It’s not a complex ideology, but it’s an easy panacea - like conspiracies- for the hard reality that is modern existence
Damn but that's some high grade poignancy early in the morning.
But it isn't a panacea. They're just told by the hate oil salesman it is, but they'll choke on it same as they would have with snake oil, just taking the rest of progress with them. There has to be a way to hijack the methodology and change the message.
You’re right that it’s ineffective, but the messaging and emotional hooks are powerful. “The left” at its core challenges the ego. It sees society, culture, economics, politics, etc and says “Do better”, or if we’re being pleasant “We can do better, let’s build it”
“The right” tells your id what it wants to hear. Everything is as it ought to be, you don’t need to improve yourself, this is the best place to be, failures are because of ‘our enemies’.
“You’re fine, it’s their fault” is a very easy pill to swallow, and the mental gymnastics start quietly
Oh I’m definitely stealing this
Easy, they are told so, sometimes from behind a pulpit. The sheeple aren't trusting their own eyes, they are trusting their neighbors to crowd-think the correct answer.
And then on the other side, you have things like Hillary Clinton's email scandals - like when she colluded with agents of a foreign government, told the Supreme Court to fuck off rather than deliver her emails (I have decided that you will need to wait for a week while I delete all the ones I don't want you to see first...), illegally conspired with the DNC to do things like give her the questions in advance of a debate (but not give those to Bernie Sanders), and so on. When Trump says that the Democrats are corrupt - he ain't lying!!! He just left out the part where he would be 100x worse.
People didn't vote for him, they voted against her. But anyway, unlike any Democrat except Bernie, he did stand up to her by running for office. Anyway, voting for Trump was people rolling the dice to see what happened, as in better a random outcome than her.
The Powers That Be decided to use Trump bc he was convenient, and for sheeple who follow authority rather than individualistic logical thinking (especially the less educated ones, bc voting properly requires a rather enormous investment of time, energy, and attention to build up - over a decade of research for sure), it makes sense to them that if everyone around them is saying the same thing, then it can't be wrong!? (Cognitive dissonance, so they ignore what they see with their very own eyes.)
Weak person’s idea of a strong man.
Poor person’s idea of a rich man.
A liar’s idea of a man with integrity.
An uneducated opinion of what it means to be smart.
I'm saving this.