We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
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I get to tell you what you can and can't do.
But I get to do whatever I want to do.
https://rimaregasblog42.substack.com/i/155933484/republican-calls-kids-freeloaders-for-wanting-free-school-lunch
Authoritarianism
Social dominance orientation
Prejudice
Racial and ethnic isolation
Relative deprivation (refers to the experience of being deprived of something to which one believes they are entitled)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201712/analysis-trump-supporters-has-identified-5-key-traits
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I’m a millennial, though, I only know the increasingly awful version of it.
And then only getting upset when it impacts them personally.
The exact opposite of Jesus.
Each about 10 min.
Illuminating.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oOjJtEkKMX4
It's all about punching down.
Ezra Klein will be enjoying the end of birth tourism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innumeracy_(book)
Our county has been taken over but traumatized little boys.
Conservatism is a mental health crisis!
Either way they'll wait for their felon to tell them who to blame it on while peddling merchandise.
We've never had the discussion to bring Taxation in line with our current obligations.
They've always wanted the PAIN!...on YOU!
1. protect and promote the interests of large corporations and the wealthy
2. manufacture "culture war" bullshit to distract their voters and force opponents of #1 to spend their energy fighting it
3. lie
When they've made enough people miserable, will they be happy?
When the crops are rotting in the fields, when the supermarket shelves are bare, when the number of homeless people increases ten-fold, will they be content with the world they've made?