Why is The Right So Afraid of Everything #psychology #politics #uspolitics #trump

[QueerDuck]

I enjoy his videos very much. It's a rational, well-presented, organized. You don't need to be a psychiatrist to understand what he's talking about. He builds a foundation of knowledge and understanding and then applies the explanation to MAGA and Trump supporters.

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. Because very few things are more profitable than fear. (n/t)

[Ocelot II]

2. OK, conservatives' brains are responsive to fear. We knew that; it's always been obvious.

So what do we do about it? If there's a substantial percentage of a population that's wired to respond more strongly to fear, how do we persuade them politically except by scaring them?

[QueerDuck]

4. I don't have the answer to that question. But I think that understanding the problem...

... is a big part of finding an effective and meaningful solution. And in that regard, I'm grateful that we have people like Lucas Bean to help sort it all out and to give us a better understanding of the mindset of who we're up against, and the uphill battle we're facing.

[The Wizard]

3. Ignorance has a price.

The reich uses fear division and loathing on the poorly educated for cheap political gain. It's why the GQP is anti education.
Way back in the 60s we had "question authority" as a starting point. With the GQP it's follow Dear Leader.
Thinking is a form of work, and Dear Leader's followers feel they're entitled to a good living without working for it. Don't forget the white supremacy factor either.

[larwdem]

5. I think

we need slogans like, Whats so scary about healthcare peace and freedom.

[nuxvomica]

6. This nicely aligns with part of my "hero's journey" thesis

It's not so much liberal vs. conservative as innocence vs. corruption, but those labels themselves also perfectly align, at least nowadays. Innocence is characterized by honesty, playfulness, and wonder, and corruption by sham, drudgery, and fear. This Lucas Bean video reveals that the liberal brain has a well-developed section dealing with curiosity, ie. wonder, while the conservative has an overdeveloped amygdala, the section dealing with fear. It all relates to personal safety. When we feel safe, we can be honest, playful and curious, but when we don't, we are most likely to lie, just follow orders (drudgery), and see the world as threatening. My thesis offers a further explanation of how these conditions develop.

In the ideal childhood, we feel protected and use honesty -- a reverence for the truth, play, and curiosity to learn and grow so that when challenges are encountered (rites of passage) we develop and discover our own personal power. This learning also reveals that the world is a dangerous place but rather than shrinking from it, we can use our power to transform it into a safer place for the innocent who come along behind us, so that this cycle can begin anew.

The onset of adulthood brings with it a choice: answer the call of the hero, what I call the "heroic impulse", and commit ourselves to innocence, or fall into what may initially seem an easier path, to just give in to corruption. The former is always the harder choice but I believe that over thousands of years, myth and literature have instructed us to follow the hero's journey so that we can overcome such reluctance.

[Warpy]

7. And when a conservative is freaking out over a manufactured nothing

and we see through the lies with a contemptuous calm, they see us as lacking the common sense to notice a terrible threat to god, mom, and apple pie.

What we do know is that people who have that much free floating anxiety already are super easy to manipulate into panic and directed rage, which is where we are now with a shockingly high percentage of people here. It's why support for Fatso remains high and why hellfire and bigotry preached from pulpits sell so well. We also know that keeping these people hyper alert and stressed out will shorten their lives by keeping their bodies conwtantly flooded with stress hormones.

The bright spot is that I've noticed a distinct de-escalation since Limbaugh did humanity a favor by dying and staying dead. Even Fatso's bluster and sloganeering have failed to fill that boild.