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As we saw during the Obama Administration, conservatives were apoplectic with fear that they would be stripped of their guns and put into camps. That particular fear was based on their ignorance of just what the president of the U.S. was capable of. They tended to see the president as ‘boss of the country’. Anyone paying enough attention may have noticed that Trump apparently thought the same thing. It is evident in his Tweets and tantrums that he believed he could do what he wanted and was frustrated by the actual limitations of the office.
In recent news, it was discovered that Trump took dozens of boxes of highly classified information with him when he left the White House. Aside from the ridiculous claims made about ‘taking his work home with him’ (that he didn’t return), or how the ‘FBI planted those documents at Mar-a-Lago’, one of the defenses being made was ‘The president can declassify anything he wants to’.
Naturally, none of Trump’s civilian supporters know that a president has to go through an official process to declassify classified documents. So when the Lie Machine™ “floods the zone” with excuses, misdirection, and lies, Trump supporters automatically believe that Trump could just blink his eyes and wiggle his nose and **POOF!**, our top secrets are suddenly safe to be stored behind a padlock where only special guests and Enrico the Pool Boy could possibly ever see them.
They just. Don’t. Know. ANYTHING about the necessary hurdles, checks, and precautions that come with running a functioning democracy.
All of this, their ignorance, fear, and tribal mentality, make them highly vulnerable to manipulation. It would take volumes to outline the malefactors who are vested in deceiving such a large swath of the American working class, but I’ll sum it up thusly:
– The Corporations and Movement Conservatives are not happy with regulations that prevent polluting, force adoption of safety measures, and compel employers to pay a ‘minimum wage’… among many other things that raise the price of doing business. They abhor a labor pool made expensive by social safety nets, unemployment, and labor requirements that create security for regular people. They also despise not being able to regulate themselves, which is to say; ‘they wanna do what they want’.
– A prosperous, educated working class is antithetical to that goal, and therefore must be quashed.
– To that end, major corporations have managed to consolidate our media for the purpose of getting as many Americans as possible united behind a wholly fabricated narrative where their enemies are, conveniently, the very people who want to restrain corporate avarice, promote education, and cultivate a prosperous and secure working class.
– With the help of corporate and ideological think tanks, their news sources have managed to convince millions of self-identifying ‘conservatives’ of a litany of fantastic, delusional, hyperbolic, and outrageous beliefs that bear no reflection in reality, but have effectively convinced them to stand fast against any efforts to improve life for the working class. Anyone with the intellectual rigor to go through the congressional record can see how this has translated into legislative reality.
Given that very reality, it becomes painfully clear that millions of Americans are being played by this elitist cotillion of Gilded Age resurrectionists who are deftly using their fears to commit electoral ledger-demain so that (mostly) conservatives are so afraid of their fantastic boogeymen that they vote against their best interests at every turn. Let’s look at some of those boogeymen:
1) Critical Race Theory
“Critical Race Theory is a graduate-level program that explores the evolution of a legal framework that has historically repressed people of color and especially black people in the US. It is taught to graduate Law Students, as in after four years of college for most people.
The Lie Machine™ rolled out a campaign to tell parents that middle school children or younger were being taught this advanced curriculum that teaches children to hate white people. For millions of racially insecure people (read; ‘racist’), this is terrifying to them because they see the specter of racial retribution for all the centuries of slavery followed by decades of open discrimination that continues to this day. They think it’s going to result in ‘black people taking over’ and suppressing white people the same way they were suppressed. They think that if their children are taught this, they will capitulate their white primacy to future generations of black people.
Naturally, the nature of CRT and the ridiculousness of their claim that it was being taught to children emerged in the info-sphere. After all, it’s like saying that 9 year-olds are being taught ‘brain surgery’ just because they have an anatomy class. Upon seeing the rational truth, the Lie Machine™ adjusted the narrative so that now any talk of race in schools is seen as anti-white even if it’s not ‘technically’ CRT.
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