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The hard-core right has the perverted notion that in a country of 328,000,000 people that every individual can set his own rules, regardless of the needs or desires of others. It is a matter of social greed. A case of it is my world, and you are here because I allow it.If you disagree with me then you have no value. Their vision of Democracy is chaos, in fact they openly state that Democracy is mob rule. They read the Constitution through a drinking straw, ignoring the phrase that came before or after their pet line. They believe that it is right, Constitutional and patriotic to tear down the Constitution while at the same time, declaring that their rights and duties to do so come from the same document.
Theirs is a world of I, me, mine writ large. It is not a matter of your rights end where my nose begins, it is that my sphere of influence is limitless. You can't tell me what to do, but it is my full right to control what you do. What they do not realize is that their path is circular, that if they were able to attain their immediate goals, of a hard right society, with an all powerful daddy figure in charge and all of the "Socialists" and other undesirables, contained or eliminated, the chaos would not end, for they would then begin to make war on each other for the exact same same reasons.
These people are doing everything within their power to institute chaos. They visualize the condition of a world with no rules where every man gains his power by his ability to dominate others. The see a bloody civil war as a positive; a chance, in a world where they feel ignored and emasculated, to become heroes. If they ever gain real power, there will be no limits to their cruelty.
These people are dangerous to civilized society, and they are self replicating. When they break the laws, they can not be allowed to get away with it, because it further emboldens them and supports recruitment. We must reign them in while we are still able. Their motto is "we have the guns" and they are right, they do. The only thing that they lack is a charismatic leader, and there are plenty of them vying for the job; some of them in high elected office.
The German people fell into the grasp of the Nazis because no one had the desire to stand up to them when they were weak. They tried to ignore the Fascists. We are not so special that we are immune from the same failing and the same final results. We must get a handle on the insurrectionist, we must make an example of the leaders that is so unpalatable that they will want to crawl back under the rocks that spawned them while there is still a chance to do so. The longer we delay, the harder the chore.
NoMoreRepugs
(10,431 posts)jmbar2
(5,970 posts)You can't tell me what to do, but it is my full right to control what you do.
I imagine almost every on this board has experienced this poisonous culture over the past decade. The Karens, antimaskers, MAGAts, anti-Obama vitriol...
I don't know how to put the genie back in the bottle, but I am SO ready for the kind of nation that Joe Biden spoke of in his swearing in of the 1000 new staff. Decency, respect, dignity and competence.
Perhaps if that behavior is consistently modeled from both government and the reasonable folks in society, the ugly ones will retreat back to their holes.
I'm going to do my part. Every interaction with another person is a chance to model a more compassionate way to live in society with others.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)That bond being against working together. Very tough bunch to get through to.