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In reply to the discussion: Could this be the birth of Free Republic 2.0? [View all]ismnotwasm
(42,061 posts)I have a friend who was so into conspiracy theory it ended up being his death---he didn't trust cancer treatments, because they were a tool of "big Pharma"--what was worse was watching the devolution of his mental state. Horrible. And fear based
We have a country whose power structure is rapidly changing. Straight white males are falling from their perch as the ultimate power brokers. The unreasoning and quite frankly bizarre reactions to Hillary we see at sites like JPR, are not, as they apparently think, anger at "the system" but fear of loss of power. Plenty of women post there, self-avowed feminists, even, yet aside from a couple small arguments, they accept the misogyny, they are stewing in it because it is ultimately a "known" quality, and therefore quite comfortable.
I have a friend who used to say if you step in fresh dogshit at first it feels warm and soft and you don't noticed the stink until you stir it up. That's not what's happening at JPR--The stink is there, ----remaining becomes a choice.