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In reply to the discussion: Watch Alex Jones Slowly Devolve Into A Literal Baby Over US Election [View all]Saviolo
(3,282 posts)This is the kind of crap that whips the far right into a complete frenzy. It terrifies me. The GOP and the right are approaching this election entirely differently from the rational people on the left. Some of them truly believe that this is a battle against pure evil. Demonic possession, devils, spirits, Satan, the whole nine yards.
Listen, as a progressive I know that if Trump is somehow elected, it won't be the end of the world. It will be a major setback, and a political nightmare. It will set back human rights, women's rights, LGBT rights, the rights of POC, immigrants, and the poor decades at least. It will take further decades to undo all of the nonsense he would enact if he manages to get his spray-tanned tiny fingers on power for even one term. But some of those on the far right believe that this is a true battle against evil. That if Hillary is elected it will plunge the world into decades of darkness and fire and brimstone. They feel like this is a battle for human survival.
How do you even communicate in any rational way with these people? How can you talk to someone like Alex Jones or Roger Stone? They have no respect for others (as seen by them crashing TYT's live broadcast from the GOP convention), and they just are completely irrational. Their political beliefs are so informed by their delusions, I have no idea how to even engage in a meaningful way.