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applegrove

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2. And it is like getting out of a cult for those on the right. They had complex issues and delusions
Thu May 9, 2013, 10:41 PM
May 2013

that the GOP took advantage of, giving them meaning in their lives with god/gay/guns. Like fucked up young adults everywhere they were vulnerable to psychopaths who would make them march along with the manipulative narrative. Who told the fucked up that they were on the right path, while the others, outside the cult, were lost. How special that made them feel. How they fit in. They were something weren't they? Their hopes/fantacies/dreams matched their lives for once. They were so self actualized. So true. So American. So right. And then one day 20 kids got blown away by an AR 15. And they finally realized their leaders were kinda the ones who were fucked up. And on the wrong path. So they wanted background checks. And the NRA squealed quite a bit. And won the first vote. But that feeling of the 20 dead kids didn't go away. And it seemed better, on this issues at least, to follow the people who wanted to try and stop events such as Newtown. And they connected to an all-round healthier narrative of what it means to be an American: the right to be reasonably safe from harmful people.

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