When the right's conspiracy theories are playing out before their very eyes...

[True Dough]

They embrace them!

[Think. Again.]

1. Projection...

From Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection

Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the bully might be projecting his own struggle with self-esteem onto the other person.

The concept emerged from Sigmund Freud’s work on defense mechanisms and was further refined by his daughter, Anna Freud, and other prominent figures in psychology.

[orthoclad]

9. Projection is a defense mechanism. This is a planned offense tactic by the Fourth Reich.

Call it goebbeling. Herr Goebbels advised Nazis to accuse the enemy of what you're planning.

Far more insidious than projection. Not defense: offense.

I believe there is some psych term for willingly holding two contradictory ideas. That might describe the redhats. But the plan, implemented by the plutocrat media, is a deliberate strategy to obscure the plutocrats' information management.

[Think. Again.]

11. That's an interesting point, thank you!

[orthoclad]

22. "Projection" implies innocence,

it's a damaged psyche trying to protect itself. What we are seeing is far worse: an aggressive strategy perpetrated deliberately to cause damage. A tactic used by the Nazis in Germany!

[stollen]

26. And this strategy is called what?

[orthoclad]

28. Goebbeling,

After the Nazi minister of propaganda, Herr Goebbels.

[Metaphorical]

29. Information Warfare

Disinformation intended to assert the dominance of the State, to paint anyone who disagrees as an enemy of the State and who should be punished as such. It is intended to confuse, demoralize, make people fearful. What Trump is doing is saying "Vote for me or else ... well, that's an awful nice house you have, shame to have someone bomb it." He knows that he cannot win lawfully, and his bag of dirty tricks is largely exhausted. All he has left is threats, to make people believe that he has an army of people willing to march at his command. In actuality he really doesn't ... but he's now locked into that bluff.

[Biophilic]

2. Maybe that's why the conspiracy theorists have gotten so crazy.

Reality is just on the edge of crazy, if not tipping over the edge.

[orthoclad]

10. Ironically, the biggest conspiracy of all operates in the open.

The control of society by the plutocracy. Mux illustrates this well.

[Biophilic]

14. Yes, but that's a true conspiracy, not a conspiracy theory.

[orthoclad]

25. All the "theories" are distractions,

like T's clown show, to obscure the actual conspiracy and power play.

[Biophilic]

30. Yup.

[BattleRow]

5. To not think about it makes us

aquiescent accomplices ,and, in some cases,volunteer victims.

[Think. Again.]

12. I believe that was why the whole "Conspiracy Theory" concept was developed...

...to pre-empt discussion of possible scenarios by putting any suspicions that varied from the official position into a "crazy" basket.

[BattleRow]

15. Ultimate projection,much?

[Think. Again.]

16. I don't understand, what do you mean?

[BattleRow]

18. THEY are the conspirators..but

have escaped being called conspirators,because they've successfully deflected the use of the word except when castigating others.

[orthoclad]

27. "Purloined Letter", by Poe

The evidence hides in the open.

The plutocracy has its hands in our pockets every. single. day., while they distract us with colorful noise.
Meanwhile:

?

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58533

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Hear! Hear!

I am no genius but I can think. ❤️

[infullview]

4. The David Pecker of the net

Pecker head musk

[Wounded Bear]

6. In the end, all of their accusations end up being confessions...nt

[LiberalArkie]

8. They doth project too much

[orthoclad]

23. Not "projection", but "goebbeling"

See discussion above.

[GiqueCee]

7. As that shitweasel...

... Newt Gingrich reportedly said when questioned about his behavior, "Just do as I say, not as I do."

That's conservatism in a nutshell.

[True Dough]

20. It is so ludicrous that it's funny, at times

Also head-scratching -- as in, how can a sentient human be naive enough to fall for the B.S.? But then some of them may see through the lies but they play along because they're so anti-immigrant and racist that they'll swallow everything else.

But some of them are threatening. J6 proved that. And there's going to be a replay of that after Trump loses again in November. The question is whether the violence loses steam or is more widespread this time. That is the troubling aspect.

[jfz9580m]

21. Oh yeah

It is definitely scary sometimes. But it is also absurd beyond all sense and reason.

Good god, In 2004 Bush seemed clownish and ott and he was. However, 20 years on, the GOP has gone so far around the bend in response to the endemic ecological and economic crises they fostered via war & deregulation that the Bushies looks relatively sane.

[orthoclad]

24. It's a deliberate tactic

used as part of the Reich Wing's overall strategy.
Not crazy. Deliberate.

We're up against the manipulators who killed hundreds of thousands of their followers during covid with all the antivax antimask nonsense, just to have a wedge issue. They are THAT cold-blooded.

Not crazy. Evil.