It means these hateful sacks of crap aren't going anywhere and aren't going to change when The Dotard finally kicks the bucket. They will still be a problem to deal with after that.

They used to be a minority in the shadows but Trump and a sycophantic media has helped them come out and multiply.

They used to be isolated.

...like Stockholm syndrome. These are people who have been hurt in the past, they easily acquiesce when battered repeatedly psychologically.

We're bullies who are bigger than you so give us your lunch money

They were taught to devalue education, and over value group identity. This group vaguely includes race, religion, political party. They were primed to be in a cult since they were born.

From the movie “Tombstone:”

Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
Wyatt Earp: What does he need?
Doc Holliday: Revenge.
Wyatt Earp: For what?
Doc Holliday: Bein' born.

He had an awful father who was cruel to him. And he had a job he loved and came in one day and was fired because of a merger. He never got a good paying job again. Worked in the Amazon factory, supermarket and now a postal carrier. And he blames his problems on DEI and minorities because he can’t find a good paying job.

It's not their fault, but someone must be blamed for their pain of repeated trauma and failure. American society has become too unstable and corrupted and these people are caught in the trap.

Thank you! Excellent post.

*rump having "information phobia," I think to a lesser degree many of his followers do as well.

Thanks for the thread Nevilledog

for someone of his class and wealth in his lack of curiosity about the world in which we live. But having grown up in an extremely religious, red area I would say that the percentage of conservative religious people who had a real curiosity about a broad range of subjects is less than 10%. To me it almost seems to be a distinguishing feature, I've never met people from any other population so fiercely obstinate in their ignorance. Even trying to engage them with "God created nature so we owe it to God to appreciate it through studying it" fell on deaf ears.

were and are a convenient tool for the billionaire class to use and support in order to gain and retain more power and wealth.

It worked especially well for Foreign billionaires because they never bought into what America truly means which is diversity and freedom for all.

Our domestic self made billionaires for the most part didn't start off this way, save for the Koch Brothers and a few others.

OANN, Newsmax, Xwitter would have never existed.

But Faux Noise didn't flop, they made boatloads of money for doing practically nothing but spewing hatred 24/7/365. I blame them for everything, and I blame hate-radio like Rush Limbaugh and his imitators.

Oh my God, they have ruined our country!

I would've said (and have said, in various ways on occasions past) though I'd probably add that they're angry because, not only have they been DUPED, but they willingly, eagerly SUBMITTED to being duped. Angry because they KNOW they've been duped.

And not by those they love to demonize - that minority, immigrant 'other' they love to blame for their own shortcomings, for allowing themselves to be duped

but DUPED by Trump and those representatives they REPEATEDLY vote for and place trust in.

And (as suggested above) rather than admit to it by turning on those they KNOW have been rear ending them for DECADES, they double down... via asshole rationalizations, alternate realities, and denialism. The kind of inane, batshitery that pours from their mouths at every interview.

But they don't mind spewing bullshit and coming off like lunatics. Because better to hate on mythological BOOGIEMEN than to admit to knowingly and wilfully being PLAYED (by their billionaire class) as "suckers and losers" their entire fkng LIVES.

K & R

The author should disclose when they use it.

insists on having society fashioned the way they are convinced they should be. God commands it. Abortion is forbidden from conception onward. Theirs is the True Religion and must be strictly forced on all. Only men can lead so a woman cannot be President of the United States.

"The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls "disaster capitalism". In this strategy, political actors exploit the chaos of natural disasters, wars, and other crises to push through unpopular policies such as deregulation and privatization. This economic "shock therapy" favors corporate interests while disadvantaging and disenfranchising citizens when they are too distracted and overwhelmed to respond or resist effectively."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine?wprov=sfla1

When you have such a small penis, you have few options.

Not just MAGA.

Professor Corey Robin wrote about it years ago; the one animating philosophy of conservatism: “if he gets something then I get less.”

Everything. And that includes voting. If more get the vote - then his vote means less.