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But see..... McCarthy was right. That's the thing.100% spot-on.
Division and polarisation is a lucrative industry and a vote winner (if you play your cards right).
I think the term is divide and conquer - and then the Democrats/left can ride in and benefit from it.
It's kinda like an approved contractor who botches the job on purpose knowing he's got the contract to do the repairs and fix it. The perfect storm.
Problem is, it's the right who benefit from it the most.
A black dude gets elected, number of gun sales go up massively..... I mean....
“I mean...” what? What are you implying?
I'm implying the right use fear as a tool to get them support.
Don't be an idiot. Nobody's trying to scare anyone for fuck's sake. The reason gun sales go up is because gun owners and wannabe gun owners are afraid Democrats will try to take them away or curb their ownership options even more than they already have.
Jesus.
I'm implying "it's the right who benefit the most" from friction in society.
The right "benefits" from friction in society? How, exactly?
Hilarious.
Of course they're trying to put fear into people. Look at McCarthy in the 1950s, the fear of Communism.
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Take a look if you want to see.
Then we have the post 9/11 fear mongering. Pretty obvious that certain people were trying to make Islam the enemy because most OPEC countries were Muslim.
The reality is that the anti-Communist agenda came from the right. They celebrated the demise of the USSR in 1990/1991 and then lost the election. Clinton for 8 years. Once they got it back with Dubya, they went on the offensive, made a new enemy.
Yes, people are scared Democrats will take their guns away. Why is that?
Trump came out and said that guns should be taken off people. Not Obama. So why is it that Republicans fear their guns will be taken away by Democrats? Because they've been told this will happen.
By who?
There's a massive amount of money being spent on agendas. Manipulating people.
The Koch brothers realized when they lost (as Libertarians and as VP candidate) to Reagan that you can't win with a third party, all you can do is try and change a party to reflect what you want. And they've done that. They've changed the Republican Party. Trump is their product. Though they hate Trump.
They thought they could control it. But they can't. The Republican Party is becoming a monster.
How does the right benefit from friction?
Tell people you're "tough on crime", you need lots of crime. Otherwise people aren't going to vote for those who are "tough on crime".
If you have a bogeyman outside, you can say you're going to increase defense spending to keep everyone safe. You're the ones who care about the military.
People are stupid because people are emotional. Throw emotion at them and they will vote for you. Because they want to believe.
Obama's "hope not hate", Trump's "Make America Great Again". Promises of hope for the future. Promises that will never been fulfilled, they don't need to be, they're there as emotionally charged nonsense to get stupid people to vote for them.
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"When Tail Gunner Joe pointed out, rightly, that the State Department and Hollywood® were filled with commies, people were upset.
Leftism was generally viewed as bad. It was so obvious that Stalin was a bad guy that even the New York Times® couldn’t hide it, as they had swept the human cost of the Holodomor (In The World Murder Olympics, Communists Take Gold And Silver Medals) under the rug two decades earlier.
The way the Left did that is they went to their normal playbook. How do you trump logic and facts? A plain appeal to emotion:
“Have you no sense of decency, Sir, at long last?” was how they went after Senator Joe McCarthy. They tried to make his dogged pursuit of Leftism appear to be an unhinged attack against ghosts.
But McCarthy was . . . right. After the fall of the Soviet Union, it was shown that Joe was right about the scope and scale of Soviet infiltration. Where? Everywhere Joe had said. McCarthyism was just what you and I would call, “Telling the truth.”
Again, McCarthy was right. Leftism had infiltrated the Federal government. Stalin had better progress reports on the atomic bomb than those that were given to Truman. There’s a reason we celebrate Juneteenth around my house.
Why did Julius and Ethel Rosenberg cross the road? Because they were never on your side. (meme: not original)
Leftism has burrowed inside of our country. For decades. When Reagan was shot we couldn’t watch it on TV. There were no televisions in our classrooms. But some teachers had radios and instead of listening to a lecture on social studies, we sat and listened to the news on a tinny AM radio.
Would President Reagan live? No one knew. All we knew was that he was in the hospital.
One kid, whose parents were Leftist professors at the local college, said, simply, “I hope he dies. Maybe then the Senate will choose Ted Kennedy as Vice President.”
The split we see now isn’t new. It’s been festering in our country for decades.
I could come up with example after example. But if I were to try to create a scenario where people would be on each other like Karens on a manager, I couldn’t create a better scenario than what I see today:
- Multiple cultures forced together in small spaces.
- Actual propaganda presented as nightly news.
- Dogs and cats, living together.
- An Internet where people can check facts for themselves.
- A demonization of the Culture that created the place."