According to a dedicated anti-conservative account on X, it makes a person "far-right" to admit there was no insurrection on January 6 and that elections aren't credible (ever, not just that one).
No, it takes awareness, observation, knowing what words mean, and a lack of partisan brainwashing.
I told him that every day I get called "far-right" by radical Leftists and a Leftist by the Far-Right. He demanded I present evidence.
I told him he is the evidence.
People like him are also proof that politics makes people stupid. Or, since "proof" is subjective, it is more evidence on the heap. A heap so high that to me it is convincing proof.
He believes his media sources, he trusts what cops say, he believes in democracy, he wants you to be governed, he doesn't listen to others, and he makes up reasons to not believe reality. He's common. He has more in common with the Republicans he hates than he does with me. He won't see it.
He doesn't realize he's hallucinating. He'd never admit it if he got an inkling. He's not alone. Certain things make me fearful for the short-term outlook of our species. Clutching onto political nonsense is one of those things. People like this are a danger to everyone when they get power, including the power of large numbers. They'll impose deadly democracy on us even if it kills them, just because they believe in it so hard.
"he wants you to be governed"
ReplyDeleteYep, and he assumes he, or what thinks of as his proxies, will be doin' the governing. His type -- the wannabe slavers -- never think of themselves as the ones wearin' the leash. No, it's all us unruly folks who have to be reined in. What he and his don't get, and probably never will: he's already leashed. He'll never be top dog. He's property. And he handed himself over willingly. He's in Black Iron Prison. He forged his own chains. Lovingly shaped each stone of his cell. Carefully applied the brand to his own keister. He patrols the corridors as a trusty, ready to bash heads. He's an agent of what you call the ancestral enemy . -Henry
A good analysis. Thanks.
DeleteBut he has a website and everything, and his/its objective is, "Watchdogging and fact-checking the crappy journalism of the right-wing news media and its 'media researchers.'"
DeleteHe needs a mirror. LOL
that shoulda been: what he thinks of as his proxies -Henry
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