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bigmonkey

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5. Here's a meme to use against them - call them unnatural, abnormal.
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 03:20 AM
Mar 2012

My conviction is that one of their really basic memes is that their actions are all natural or normal.
They say, or imply, that:
they get angry and interrupt others because they are normal people driven to their limits by "crazy liberals".
they never have to give evidence for their beliefs because their beliefs are those of normal people.
their mistakes are the mistakes of normal people, and so are innocent mistakes.
their religious beliefs are those of normal Americans.
English is the normal language people speak in the U.S.
war is unavoidable because it's a normal human activity.
education is something that only people who are "different" find useful.
greed, no matter how excessive, is a normal human behavior.

And so forth.

So, use variants of the words unnatural and abnormal whenever possible about the right wing.
Say things like:
The republicans have an unnatural fixation on other people's sexual lives.
They are abnormally belligerent.
Normal people consider education to be beneficial.
Their religious beliefs are way outside the norm for the Christian tradition.
It goes against human nature to be so hateful toward women.

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