Daddy State Awareness Rules
PREAMBLE:
The Daddy State tells us lies as a means of demonstrating its power.
The lies have practically nothing to do with the subject of the lies.
Lying about everything is a way to condition us - to make us accept the premise that they can do anything they want ...
… SO THEY CAN DICTATE REALITY TO US.
THE RULES:
1. Every accusation is a confession.
Cult45 has made the final turn now. They've noticed that a lot of us have caught on to the fact that we're being pushed into a kind of fascist plutocracy, so they've stripped away all the veils, and are diving straight into the fantasy that feeds every would-be dictator's dreams of domination.
Identify what it is about your own intentions that most Americans find repellent, and claim your opponent is the very personification of them.
BTW - you can't Both-Sides that one.
eg: "The left" wants everyone to vote on a full slate of candidates, which is not a fascist thing - while "the right" wants to restrict who can vote and who can run, which is a very fascist thing.
(pay wall)
Why Trump Supporters Can’t Admit Who He Really Is
Nothing bonds a group more tightly than a common enemy that is perceived as a mortal threat
To understand the corruption, chaos, and general insanity that is continuing to engulf the Trump campaign and much of the Republican Party right now, it helps to understand the predicate embraced by many Trump supporters: If Joseph R. Biden Jr. wins the presidency, America dies.
During last week’s Republican National Convention, speaker after speaker insisted that life under a Biden presidency would be dystopian. Charlie Kirk, the young Trump acolyte who opened the proceedings, declared, “I am here tonight to tell you—to warn you—that this election is a decision between preserving America as we know it and eliminating everything that we love.” President Trump, who closed the proceedings, said, “Your vote will decide whether we protect law-abiding Americans or whether we give free rein to violent anarchists and agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens. And this election will decide whether we will defend the American way of life or allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it.” And in between Americans were told that Democrats want to “disarm you, empty the prisons, lock you in your home, and invite MS-13 to live next door” and that they “want to destroy this country and everything that we have fought for and hold dear.”
One does not have to be a champion of the Democratic Party to know this chthonic portrait is absurd. But it is also essential, because it allows Trump and his followers to tolerate and justify pretty much anything in order to win. And “anything” turns out to be quite a lot.
In just the past two weeks, the president has praised supporters of the right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon, which contends, as The Guardian recently summarized it, that “a cabal of Satan-worshipping Democrats, Hollywood celebrities and billionaires runs the world while engaging in pedophilia, human trafficking and the harvesting of a supposedly life-extending chemical from the blood of abused children.” Trump touted a conspiracy theory that the national death toll from COVID-19 is about 9,000, a fraction of the official figure of nearly 185,000; promoted a program on the One America News Network accusing demonstrators of secretly plotting Trump’s downfall; encouraged his own supporters to commit voter fraud; and claimed Biden is controlled by “people that are in the dark shadows” who are wearing “dark uniforms.”
Trump believes his own government is conspiring to delay a COVID-19 vaccine until after the election. He retweeted a message from the actor James Woods saying New York Governor Andrew Cuomo “should be in jail” and another from an account accusing the Portland, Oregon, mayor of “committing war crimes.” The president is “inciting violence,” in the words of Maryland’s Republican Governor, Larry Hogan. Trump defended 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, a supporter who is charged with first-degree homicide; and stated that if he loses the election in November it would be because it was “rigged.” At the same time, the second-ranking House Republican, among other of the president’s supporters, has shared several manipulated videos in an effort to damage Biden.
This is just the latest installment in a four-year record of shame, indecency, incompetence, and malfeasance. And yet, for tens of millions of Trump’s supporters, none of it matters. None of it even breaks through. At this point, it appears, Donald Trump really could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose his voters.
This phenomenon has no shortage of explanations, but perhaps the most convincing is the terror the president’s backers feel. Time and again, I’ve had conversations with Trump supporters who believe the president is all that stands between them and cultural revolution. Trump and his advisers know it, which is why the through line of the RNC was portraying Joe Biden as a Jacobin.
Republicans chose that theme despite the fact that during his almost 50 years in politics, Biden hasn’t left any discernible ideological imprint on either the nation or his own party. Indeed, Biden is notable for his success over the course of his political career in forging alliances with many Republicans. I worked at the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the early 1990s when William Bennett was its director and George H. W. Bush was president. Biden was then chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee; he and his staff were supportive of our work, and not in the least ideological. There will be no remaking of the calendar if Joe Biden becomes president.
Still, in the minds of Trump’s supporters lingers the belief that a Biden presidency would usher in a reign of terror. Many of them simply have to believe that. Justifying their fealty to a man who is so obviously a moral wreck requires them to turn Joe Biden and the Democratic Party into an existential threat. The narrative is set; the actual identity of the nominee is almost incidental.
It goes on to talk about "tribalism" and "deep divides" etc - all of which (I think) is bullshit once you understand that the "deep divide" and the "both sides" and the "Red vs Blue" is part of the false narrative.
And that false narrative has grown out of the training that "journalists" undergo in order to make the fat paychecks they can count on at the national level if they internalize that bullshit and remember to weave it into every fucking story they report.
So, eventually - like now - we have a media culture that reports on the fight over the issues instead of reporting on the issues themselves - because they never learned how else to do it.
And that sounds like I'm stating the obvious - the standard bitch about "horse race political journalism" - but we've gone way beyond that.
Let's be really clear here - it's not like we don't have a large dataset that we can look at now. There's at least a 150-year pile of historical fact telling us that while never perfect and sometimes even disastrous, "progressive" policies work better for more people than "conservative" policies.
And not to shift gears too abruptly, but here's a quick look at some real differences between Progressive and Conservative approaches - and at some of the purposefully neglected narrative.
Justin King - Beau Of The Fifth Column:
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