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In 2012 with Occupy Wall Street, the plebs got dangerously close to setting aside their differences and going after the people who were actually fucking them over.
The elites' response to this was to inject lunatic fringe leftists into OWS and amplify their voices in the media to make them the defacto leaders. The Steven Colbert Show did its part, putting a fruitcake calling herself 'Ketchup' on blast as an OWS leader as a means of discrediting the movement before the masses.
From that moment, American corporate media became utterly obsessed with finding every last one one of these freakshows and giving them cultural power through the media.
Why them? When a large group of loosely aligned people are attacking you, the smart thing to do is find the weakest, dumbest ones among them and tell them that if they side with you, you'll give them a slice of your power and let them rule by your side.
We live in a world of rainbow freak worship because it distracts the population from calling for the heads of the banksters. It's that simple.
They want you to hate the rainbow. Because if you're talking about how much you hate the flaggots, you're not talking about how much you hate the banks.
I hate faggots and Jews.
Eh, I reserve my ire for the "I'm not white, I'm Jewish" ones. I have no truck with the rest of them.
and that is why you are a Useful Idiot
It's not hard to hate more than one kind of evil.
They aren't even different evils, lol
Well put. Though a missing part of the equation here is the Tea Party movement. Remember they were started for the EXACT same reasons (opposing bank bailouts), and were taken over by every other fringe issue from the political right, just like OWS was from the left.
What they feared even more than OWS alone was the left and right finding a common cause.
It is interesting to look back on those few years now. One thing I’ll add that doesn’t help any emerging movement get a foothold, is our exactly-two-sides political arena in the US and how religiously tied to their side people get. I remember hearing my Democrat mom ripping on “those loony tea-baggers” basically as soon as the first news story about their early demonstrations came out and before she could have really known what their demands were, but she DID know they seemed to be on Red Side so she knew they were no good. A lot of Blue Side people dismissed the Tea Party movement out of hand, and a lot of Red Side people would soon do the same with Occupy. It doesn’t even matter if the two sides would say the same thing, once people join a Side, part of the religion of it all is that you knee-jerk dismiss even the good points the other Side makes, just because of who made the point. Those Twitter accounts that post side-by-side screen caps of political activist types contradicting themselves from one tweet to another point this out well.
I visited an Occupy camp one day just to see what it was like. There were a lot of hangers-on who didn’t seem like they were there for any reason but that it was trendy, but I also didn’t see any of the wild progressive stack shit. But within the month of my visit I started seeing that in news stories, asking why isn’t Occupy speaking to the specific needs of Ethiopian transgender lesbian dragon-people in wheelchairs, and shortly after the movement lost all steam. Then the state forces moved in to clear the camps and there was no resistance.