How do you deprogram an entire political party? Serious question. These people have been living in a delusional parallel universe ever since "Hillary Clinton murdered Vince Foster" and that was 30 years ago now.
30 years of lies, spite and bile.
re-establishing the Fair Reporting Act would do a lot to help by stemming the tide of the likes of Fox News, Newsmax and OANN, not to mention a long list of AM and satellite radio stations that blast fascist propaganda 24/7
Yes please, yesterday if possible.
More than 30 years, sadly. There's a great book called Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew.
In Vietnam, racist pieces of shit were angry that they had to fight with black people. As you can imagine, they were assholes about it. Couple that with terrible conditions, and they built this persecution fantasy about how the political elite abandoned them to the jingles to die (and made them eat with black people, how dare), so when they came home they lied about pretty much everything to their troglodyte friends and families, and passed these persecution fantasies down to their children.
Now these same people run training camps throughout the US for urban warfare, because their fantasy includes "bringing the war home" to the US so the us normies have to experience the made up trauma that they decided to pretend they had, plus all the actual trauma.
You can go back to pretty much any instance of reality and find a small subset that is actively deluded. The issue now is that they all found each other, and are working in concert. It's a gordian knot.
I like your comment, but autocorrect changing 'jungles' to 'jingles' has really cracked me up.
Step one is recognizing Fox News, Newsmax, Salem Media, etc as propaganda channels.
I think it goes at least back to Reagan getting elected in 1980.
I remember my parents had been voting Republikklan until my father realized Reagan made SSI income taxable as part of his plan to reduce tax rates for the ultra rich.
No more voting for republikkkunts.
Easiest would probably be to start from scratch, but the crazies inhabiting the corpse of the old, abandoned party won't go away. That'll be hard work. But I doubt they want to get rid of them, they made them after all. It's just that Pence is burned and won't get their favour again (which is probably a good thing, he's not exactly a sane person. Just differently crazy).
How do you deprogram an entire political party? Serious question. These people have been living in a delusional parallel universe ever since "Hillary Clinton murdered Vince Foster" and that was 30 years ago now.
30 years of lies, spite and bile.
re-establishing the Fair Reporting Act would do a lot to help by stemming the tide of the likes of Fox News, Newsmax and OANN, not to mention a long list of AM and satellite radio stations that blast fascist propaganda 24/7
Yes please, yesterday if possible.
More than 30 years, sadly. There's a great book called Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew.
In Vietnam, racist pieces of shit were angry that they had to fight with black people. As you can imagine, they were assholes about it. Couple that with terrible conditions, and they built this persecution fantasy about how the political elite abandoned them to the jingles to die (and made them eat with black people, how dare), so when they came home they lied about pretty much everything to their troglodyte friends and families, and passed these persecution fantasies down to their children.
Now these same people run training camps throughout the US for urban warfare, because their fantasy includes "bringing the war home" to the US so the us normies have to experience the made up trauma that they decided to pretend they had, plus all the actual trauma.
You can go back to pretty much any instance of reality and find a small subset that is actively deluded. The issue now is that they all found each other, and are working in concert. It's a gordian knot.
I like your comment, but autocorrect changing 'jungles' to 'jingles' has really cracked me up.
Step one is recognizing Fox News, Newsmax, Salem Media, etc as propaganda channels.
I think it goes at least back to Reagan getting elected in 1980.
I remember my parents had been voting Republikklan until my father realized Reagan made SSI income taxable as part of his plan to reduce tax rates for the ultra rich.
No more voting for republikkkunts.
Easiest would probably be to start from scratch, but the crazies inhabiting the corpse of the old, abandoned party won't go away. That'll be hard work. But I doubt they want to get rid of them, they made them after all. It's just that Pence is burned and won't get their favour again (which is probably a good thing, he's not exactly a sane person. Just differently crazy).