Trump promotes bad things such as racism and violence. Therefore, his supporters, by aiding and abetting him, also promote those bad things. Since they promote bad things that most people condemn, Trump supporters have a bad reputation in the Global Village. Trump supporters want to avoid the psychological pain of their bad reputation.
Therefore, to avoid this pain they appropriate-basically steal-the goodness of other people. For example, being patriotic-loving America-is a good thing. Yet, their actions are unpatriotic because they raped America, violently invading the Capitol to force politicians to ignore the will of the voters. They wanted to shove their beliefs down the throats of the majority of Americans.
Though they obviously hate America, because rape is a crime of hate, they pose as patriots. Mathieu Deflem, professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina explained: “They justify what they did as not criminal violence, but on the contrary as patriotism.” This is because the Global Village admires patriots and despises rapists and terrorists. Therefore, to avoid low-self-esteem they pretend they’re good patriots to falsely boost their self-esteem.
I see this all the time in the Global Village. People appropriate others’ values and characteristics that they don’t deserve to have, i.e. saying that killing and robbing rich people is what Jesus wants because he said people should be charitable, but Jesus never said to force people to donate; so they don’t follow Jesus but they say they do because they know Jesus has a good reputation and they want his good reputation so they steal it. People see through that. They know that the robber’s virtue signaling is fake.
Regarding the Capitol insurrectionists, it’s bad enough that they hate America and they tried to steal the presidency away from the voters, but in addition they attempt to steal the good reputation of real patriots. They try to blur the line between their bad America-hating acts and the good patriotic acts, when the line is clear. They raped America. Therefore, they aren’t patriots.
Capital invader Edward “Jake” Lang wrote on Facebook, “Arrest me. You are on the wrong side of history.” That’s his delusion. His fellow invaders overwhelmingly promote:
• White supremacy in a world that is increasingly mixed-race
• Anti-democracy in a nation that is increasingly democratic
• Violence in a world that is progressively eliminating violence
His values are on the wrong side of history. His actions are on the wrong side of history. Yet, he falsely claims to be on the right side of history because he wants to bask in the sunshine of the Global Village’s admiration. His participation in the invasion of America placed him on the wrong side of history.
The Global Village has a lower opinion of him now than before. In addition to terrorism he is also guilty of being fake. To be a patriot you have to respect America. To be loved by the Global Village you have to respect the group values of the Village.
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