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usonian

(24,187 posts)
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 12:52 PM Aug 2024

Right-Wing Cruelty? It's ENTIRELY about the cruelty.

The right wing has been taken over by a cult.

As with all cults, there is nothing in it but hate for "others" outside the cult. Basically, the cult "legitimizes" some activity, be it hate, cruelty, discrimination, theft or violence, as the "reward" for membership. Addiction and mob membership exhibit many of the same behaviors.

In exchange, cult members lose their individuality, reason (because parroting the "line" is so much easier than thinking), and fortune, which all go to the cult leader. Cult membership is entirely self-destructive, but the hate and cruelty feel so good.

The GOP cult offers NOTHING except cruelty for the members to wallow in, and a fortune to the wealthy who run it.

"Religion" is not a factor; it's a tool that is abused and mocked.



And they trade their honor not for a few drachmas, but just to wallow in the hate and cruelty.

Through awareness, we can AND WILL keep them out of power.

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Right-Wing Cruelty? It's ENTIRELY about the cruelty. (Original Post) usonian Aug 2024 OP
what a wonderful picture of the 2024 republican convention participants gopiscrap Aug 2024 #1
Old saying..."Love Conquers All" ... MiHale Aug 2024 #2
It is as if what they truly hate is innocence itself. Clouds Passing Aug 2024 #3

gopiscrap

(24,606 posts)
1. what a wonderful picture of the 2024 republican convention participants
Thu Aug 22, 2024, 12:55 PM
Aug 2024

oh oops, that's not todays gop? could have fooled me!

Clouds Passing

(7,544 posts)
3. It is as if what they truly hate is innocence itself.
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 09:28 AM
Aug 2024

In order for them to survive and proliferate, they prey upon the innocent. Innocent minds can’t even conceive of the ugliness that they mete out. They devour the shock of the innocent as if it’s nectar.

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