re: #73 goddamnedfrank

It really helps to understand modern conservatism if you realize it’s just gang mentality. Republicans are the gang, Trump is (for now) their leader and that’s where the thought process ends, full stop.

They don’t think he cares about them per se. They think he’s the guy they have to support to win their turf war over US politics with liberals. Like Bush he’s an intentionally disposable President, only more so. He always has been. When he goes down they’ll feign disgust and transfer loyalty to the winner of the next leadership battle.

These people have zero personal integrity. They’re united by hate and white cultural resentment. They deliberately repeat lies in order to demonstrate membership like street gangs flash hand signs, as a kind of shibboleth. It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that they’re evil.

In the novel 1984 (which I last read 40 years ago), the members of the society were ritually exposed on a daily basis to “two minutes of hate” which prepared them to blindly follow the government no matter where it led. Trump and his loyal supporters are daily exposed to hours of hate from Alex Jones, Fox News, Breitbart, etc. I don’t know what it would take to deprogram them but this environment is toxic to a democracy. These people all recite from the same dishonest sources and it’s deeply inculcated into their minds and souls. Hillary won a plurality but the combination of the onslaught of more voter suppression coming our way, gerrymandering, and the EC may doom us, unless we are able to rid government of Trump, Pence, and the whole Republican leadership.

This week I learned that a friend is a devotee of Louise Mensch. Some Lizards don’t seem that fond of her, and my impression is that she is perhaps an Alex Jones of the left (with a superior presentation) but how accurate has she been? Does she have real connections to serious sources?