The sociopathic game the Right plays w/the gun issue:
1. Republicans sell congressional inaction to the gun lobby, and instead offer hollow thoughts/prayers to murder victims' families
2. When sane members of society accurately point out the Right's corrupt cowardice... 2/
3....Cruz & other sociopaths deflect attention from their complicity, by creating a gaslighting characterization of the sane reaction to mass murder/GOP inaction...as being "contempt" for prayers......
4. This triggers the persecution complex of the evangelical base, and.... 3/
.....manipulates the "Right to Life" crowd into essentially defending a "Right to mass murder" position.....especially since the Right has manipulatively defined gun fetishes as being a "god given" Right....as analyzed here: 4/
5. This tactic being used by Cruz is something I've referred to as "manipulation of the interaction timeline". It's a common tactic used by Narcissists/sociopaths to avoid accountability, and embrace victimhood. I analyze it here: 5/
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Thread on Sandy Hook, and the suicide of Jeremy Richman:
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Expanded article version of this thread (no paywall): 9/ patreon.com/posts/49141043
A more detailed explanation of "the manipulation of the interaction timeline" taken from the Patreon article:
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