applegrove
applegrove's JournalThat was a great book. I do think her thesis, that creative destruction was on the agenda
of many on the right, is true. But I think Iraq calmed their desire for war and Katrina calmed their desire for creative destruction, for a bit. But now they are back with the manufactured crisis of debt and cuts needed. The 1% were not be affected by the meltdown in 2008. They just go into savings and their lifestyle stays pretty much the same. So they don't go through loss and learn the hard truths you learn when you feel sad. They stay delusional angry or delusional happy. Either way they are clueless or cold and could one day end up in a country they do not recognize.
So too those people who made it through WWII and could not abide nazis got old, and the younger of political leaders on the right loved psychopaths and their tricky moves. And the younger public, the baby boomers, had not experience with being exploited so they let the right and the 1% control the agenda. And then George W. Bush happened. Obama won. And then Occupy happened. Then Occupy stopped being about all the 99%, and started being about the far left, which are different, so those independants, woken up by Occupy, went to democrats and voted for Obama in 2012. Many are wiser now. Half of America still tolerate nazis much more than the greatest generations ever would have. It is still a big worry.
It is a meme they'll put out there and then when they lose and don't get Obamacare
gutted they'll make it seem like it was a gift to the left so the GOP should not have to give up anymore. Just like the NRA backtracked on background checks. The psychopaths loves to make up the rules of the negotiations and what people's assumptions are. So they win more. This Obamacare is on the table meme is just more of the same. It is like they lost ground when they nominated Romney and he couldn't attack Obama on Obamacare because it was Romney's plan.
Like you take a dog out for walk, the bosses in the GOP get their base all paranoid
against the GOP's enemies. It is, simply put, exercising them to be better pawns and patsies. Like any group of muscles, it can get weaker over time. Left unexercised a person might not hate Obama or they might vote their own economic best interest again. Thus, rumours like this over and over and over again.
McCain has been running this false narrative and he is sticking with it. Hoping it makes
it into the minds of the moderates as fact (Benghazi!!!! OBAMA!!!!SCANDAL!!!)
The GOP has to attack all the people who could become our totems. Anyone who
represents a concept, like perseverance in the face of voter suppression, has to be humiliated less the concept actually enters the brain of the GOP base and they start to putting one concept with another and then another one..... you know... thinking.
Occupy appealed to over 50 % of the population. That included many moderates and these
professionals. Then the next occupy events were more in tune with the left wing gripes. They were not only about inequality and the rich buying government anymore. They were anti trade and anti capitalist. That is why they lost support. Thankfully Obama made room for the moderates in the democratic party so they had a place to go if you liked a mixed market system of economics but didn't want plutocrats to get undue power. Occupy shut these moderates out.
The thing about any debate with the GOP base is that their thinking has
been changed by psychopath. So the reality they see has been 'amped up' by psychopath (psychopaths lay it on strong when they spread a narrative so that the dupe will feel compelled to take action, like ignore anything democrats say or vote against their own best interests). Normal day to day reality is more passive than what the gop are being spoonfed. Keep this in mind when trying to discuss gun control or whatnot with the other side. Victims of psychopaths often felt compelled to take action because the big lie seemed realer than real. The only thing more compelling than the narrative the psychopaths spin with their lies and manipulation of emotion is busting through to the truth of the whole series of lies. Think Occupy and how that woke up moderates to the fact that some of the rich were 'buying the government' and creating inequality. That was Obama's narrative during the election too. The truth works.
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