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(7,387 posts)"set up as a escape goat".
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Just remember Trump is going to declare martial law on Dec 27th. Oh wait, that was yesterday.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)his middle name begins with the letter 'Q'. If that's not concrete evidence of a QAnon conspiracy, I don't know what is.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)No reassuring the nation that the danger was limited and has passed?
No thoughts and prayers for those injured in the blast?
No pledge to provide the full support of federal resources -- including financial assistance to the state?
...Crickets...
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)desperately trying to find anything that can connect this nutjob to Antifa or Democrats in general. From what I read Warner wasn't even a registered voter.
magicguido
(6,315 posts)But all roads lead to trump and pseudoscience and conspiracy junk
KS Toronado
(17,199 posts)ancianita
(36,023 posts)Media are complicit in creating such desperation in an imiserated population.
Good to nail their abuse of free speech, too.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)it's now grown into and infected the previously far more stable and rational mainstream.
Fear of course. It causes some people seeking safety to run to instead of away from the glow of extremist fire, where with great relief discover they extremist sanctuary. Distress is replaced with the serenity of joining a great people with a great cause, fear of the unknown with great wisdom, confusion with certainty, and lack of conviction with extreme confidence and moral superiority.
Of course the hidden costs are enormous.
Adopting a new trumpish zero-sum, us OR them, view of political interactions,
Rejecting reality for the groupthink, dishonesty and conspiracism intrinsic to extremism,
Developing contempt and hostility for not just differing views but the problem people who hold them,
Inability to ally and compromise with others to achieve goals, and of course
New ruthlessness that justifies the righteous abandonment of all previous principles for the greater good.
Including democracy itself.
After all, it IS extremism.
RW or LW, religious, QANON, socialist, fascistic, the emotional comforts of the sanctuaries are very similar. And of necessity they all use conspiracies to various degrees, to weave conflicting truths from the exterior world into a protective wall.