How the GOP maintains their abusive relationship by grooming their supporters in 8 steps.
How the GOP maintains their abusive relationship by grooming their supporters in 8 steps.
(From an email)
That’s because his supporters are the abused in an abusive relationship. How they groom people in eight steps, and you can substitute politics for religion or for personal relationships. It’s what they do, it’s who they are. If you’re a Republican, this has been your life...
1 - You've been told that nobody else understands you like they do. For years.
2 - Everyone else gets badmouthed. It's just the two of you literally against the entire world. And they'll do it so much that things that aren't epithets get used as words to hate everyone else by.
3 - They'll tell you that, if you left them, all other relationships are just the same as the one you're in (even though you can see other people online talking about how what you're in is a bad relationship and all you have to do is leave them). “Both sides are the same but I’m better” - eventually, you don’t know up from down in what constitutes a healthy or a toxic relationship.
4 - You're told what to cut out of your life. Music, interests, TV shows, certain movies, even frothy coffee gets badmouthed and cut out because "you don't want to be a 'latte drinker' now do you?" (there's one of those things I mentioned in #2, using things that aren't epithets as one to control you).
5 - They take your money, claim they'll be great with it, and then spend it on their friends. They'll give you crumbs once in a while. Maybe every four years they'll treat you to a little something nice (that's worth a fraction of what they gave to their friends).
6 - every problem gets kicked down the road. The problem crops up in the New Year but it wasn't even mentioned in January. "It's going to go away" in February, and anyone that mentions it is just saying fake stuff, baby. Still nothing done in March, but any mention of it is "you're just finding faults with me". Then when April comes and it's clear what the shitstorm looks like, they blame everyone else for saying it wasn't going to be a big deal. Sounds familiar, huh.
7 - like in any abusive relationship, you're beaten down. You repeat the words in the way they taught you. You repeat the answers. Even though you know of situations where you've come out worse for the way the relationship is, you defend the abuser. First with a fake air of calm, then with a seething rage. And when people offer you a way out, you go right back to the abuse.
8 - the relationship is so twisted, you so believe everything you're told about what's real and what's not, they will literally put you in situations that could kill you. And you say you're doing it willingly, proudly, but the fact is you're a shell of the idealistic person you used to be. You just got in with the wrong crowd, but it's too late to get out now because people might think less of you. Which is all part of what you were told in #1. Only they understand you..
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