As the Right is poised and ready for widespread violence, we have to remember the GOP and NRA have profited for decades off selling an apocalyptic fear and promising that a time will come where they’ll need to bear arms and overthrow the government.
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Simply pretending like this moment of danger and crisis just happened and that it wasn’t the result of decades and decades of fearmongering for political power and profit denies an obvious truth.
As long as the GOP, NRA, and Fox relied on fear, we were going to reach this point.
As long as the GOP, NRA, and Fox relied on fear, we were going to reach this point.
As Americans, were terrible both at context and recognizing consequences. But the GOP, NRA, and Fox, not to mention the constellation of grifters serving them, have inspired so many murders, mass shooting, assaults, and terrorist actions.
The writing has been on the wall.
The writing has been on the wall.
The underlying motivation, for the GOP/NRA/Fox, has not just been political power, but profits.
It’s disturbing to realize that, that this moment of political crisis is in large part driven by economic greed, but it’s no less true. Marketing and grift got us here.
It’s disturbing to realize that, that this moment of political crisis is in large part driven by economic greed, but it’s no less true. Marketing and grift got us here.
The Right profits off selling rugged individualism to its base, telling them that they’re soldiers, that they’re powerful, all the while marketing a conspiracy theory-laden alternative reality where they need guns and paramilitary supplies, not to mention outfits and vehicles.
For a long, longtime, the GOP’s base, NRA’s customers, Fox’s viewers have been soaking in a paranoid stew designed to steal their money and stoke their white supremacist fears.
Eventually, the consumerist lifestyle turns to reality, and the fantasy into bloody realism.
Eventually, the consumerist lifestyle turns to reality, and the fantasy into bloody realism.
To base your identity around a fascistic mindset, to cement yourself in a consumerist-driven fantasy of authoritarianism, leads not just acceptance of fascism and authoritarianism, but an active and willful participation in its processes.
Including violence and coups.
Including violence and coups.
After so many years of being told they need to buy guns and that an apocalypse is coming, eventually you reach a point where those sane people are ready and looking for it.
The fact that the GOP and the Right are telling them it’s now could have massive, tragic consequences.
The fact that the GOP and the Right are telling them it’s now could have massive, tragic consequences.
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