Leftist anon thinks the right controls america
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Leftists can never admit that they are in control. I see three reasons for this.
Negotiating tactic. Always demand more, always move the goalposts, always pretend that you’ve gotten nothing even as you’re taking everything.
Deflection from failure. Your policies are retarded and destroy everything, so you must deny that they are your policies. Real communism has never been tried.
Politics of oppression. You are the resistance fighting against the man. You can never allow yourself to be perceived as the man. You must be the underdog so that you are free to punch up against all of your cultural enemies.
You're assuming that their views are based in reality. They're not.
In this guy's world hate crimes have increased dramatically. But he doesn't realize that hate crimes are up because getting to work on time is now a hate crime or how ridiculously low the standard is now; he's seen 'the evidence', but only curated agenda-evidence from lefty news. It's the summer of the shark, but on every topic all the time.
The worst of these delusional people get their news from dozens of different outlets and have no idea that those are all given them the same flock-of-birds message. Any evidence or rational argument you show them is a crackpot theory because they're absolutely convinced they're well and deeply informed.
I've never seen anything like it.
It's actually relatively easy to explain. They spend 4+ years in college (and increasingly time in high school, as well) in classes where they are fed unfalsifiable bullshit based on theories that can be traced back to the Frankfurt School.
At some point, when you're fed years of lies about things that don't exist and are easily disproven, it becomes a game of the Emperor's New Clothes. It has nothing to do with the reality -- it's a choice of "accept the bullshit and stay in the club" or "burn every bridge and live on the outside." In my experience there is no middle ground between those two positions, and students are implicitly made aware of this.
So you have true adherents (mostly women, because they don't need logic to feel correct) and reprehensible losers who are 'faking it' until at some point they stop faking it because they have too much social capital to lose. It's also relatively basic psychology that if you 'fake' being someone or something for too long, you will eventually become it.
Call it a social contagion, call it a cult -- whatever you want, you're pretty accurately describing how fucked up it is.
It's because people are weak willed and can't stand on their own. Having your own opinions is verboten among most of the population.
I'm not even talking exclusively about the young, but even middle-aged and up who previously were well-informed and grounded.
What happened is around 2015 news organizations were majority democrat (approx 2/3rds), Trump got nominated and elected, and because he broke their minds they fired / me too / forced out any conservative until they are now less than 5% even with closet conservatives.
Extreme example is Tom Ashbrook. Everybody lauded On Point for nearly twenty years, but a year after Trump he got me too'd, an independent investigation totally exonerated him, but WBUR/NPR fired him anyway because they didn't want to work with even a conservative-leaning person like him. Now NPR has zero people you could even suspect are closet conservatives.
There's no dissenting voices in their newsrooms and their audience hasn't figured that out.