All of that is true re the GOP, but here is the question: why don't 'normal' GOPers reject the base whose ideology you listed? I never hear them object. Maybe they don't . Maybe there are no normal ones left!
If you step back and look at the thinking on the right, there is an underlying foundational assumption that the ONLY way for they themselves to survive is to throw other people under the bus, literally to sacrifice them to illness and starvation. They believe they absolutely cannot address the problems of their fellow Americans without something bad happening to them, without them having too little. They are terrified that the government will treat everyone as if they mattered equally, when there is not enough to go around.
That is wrong. And it creates profound divides of fear from the right, and the more there is an effort to bridge that divide, the more they panic. Unfortunately, whether they recognize it or not, and I think some do, they are the problem not the solution.
"If you step back and look at the thinking on the right, there is an underlying foundational assumption that the ONLY way for they themselves to survive is to throw other people under the bus, literally to sacrifice them to illness and starvation. They believe they absolutely cannot address the problems of their fellow Americans without something bad happening to them, without them having too little."
For at least the last 35 years I have listened to people talk about EXACTLY that.
And I usually bring their conversation to a grinding halt when I tell them to let me know when they're ready to start shooting people down in the street or even having a quiet gummint' run "relocation process".
I heard the phenomenon called "lack mentality" at the last church I went to before I found GODLESSNESS, but no matter what it's called the notion that screwing others is the way to "get a leg up" is abhorrent to decent persons.
All of that is true re the GOP, but here is the question: why don't 'normal' GOPers reject the base whose ideology you listed? I never hear them object. Maybe they don't . Maybe there are no normal ones left!
ReplyDeleteIf you step back and look at the thinking on the right, there is an underlying foundational assumption that the ONLY way for they themselves to survive is to throw other people under the bus, literally to sacrifice them to illness and starvation. They believe they absolutely cannot address the problems of their fellow Americans without something bad happening to them, without them having too little. They are terrified that the government will treat everyone as if they mattered equally, when there is not enough to go around.
DeleteThat is wrong. And it creates profound divides of fear from the right, and the more there is an effort to bridge that divide, the more they panic. Unfortunately, whether they recognize it or not, and I think some do, they are the problem not the solution.
"If you step back and look at the thinking on the right, there is an underlying foundational assumption that the ONLY way for they themselves to survive is to throw other people under the bus, literally to sacrifice them to illness and starvation. They believe they absolutely cannot address the problems of their fellow Americans without something bad happening to them, without them having too little."
ReplyDeleteFor at least the last 35 years I have listened to people talk about EXACTLY that.
And I usually bring their conversation to a grinding halt when I tell them to let me know when they're ready to start shooting people down in the street or even having a quiet gummint' run "relocation process".
I heard the phenomenon called "lack mentality" at the last church I went to before I found GODLESSNESS, but no matter what it's called the notion that screwing others is the way to "get a leg up" is abhorrent to decent persons.