The Rude Pundit: The Real Mind Virus Is the GOP's Attack on Reality

[babylonsister]

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-real-mind-virus-is-gops-attack-on.html


The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
6/03/2023
The Real Mind Virus Is the GOP's Attack on Reality

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Again, we haven't heard what the final objective is from DeSantis or legislators in all the states that have lost their goddamn minds (and court cases) over drag performances and trans treatment. They'll say they're preventing child sexual abuse, except facts don't back that up. They'll say it's for the welfare of children, except that makes zero sense in a world inundated with sexual imagery, images and ideas that don't necessarily say they are targeting only feels of heterosexual lust. I mean, I know a few lesbians who thoroughly enjoy the Tennessee Titans Cheerleaders.

I mean, it's fucking obvious what they want. They want to curtail the power of non-whites, power they see growing along with the teaching of the harm whiteness in this country has actually done. They want to push LGBTQ people back into the closet, or the prison, by making their existence illegal. They want to control speech, control sexuality, control all those things that they see as threats to their power, a power that is enforced through hegemonic whiteness and enforced heterosexuality.

Or, to put it another way, the politicians and media apparatchiks who push this agenda are fucking frightened little bitches asserting their remaining power to fuck shit up for everyone not them. (And let's be clear: the public doesn't support most of this shit.) They want to fuck up public education. They want to be able to jail or punish ideological enemies. And they want to do it by pretending that's what the endgame of "wokeness" is when the endgame of wokeness is really, simply to fucking ask people to stop being assholes and to acknowledge that reality is fucking real. Yeah, that means teaching children that shit was fucking awful and, hey, let's learn about the awfulness so we can be less shitty. Yeah, that means saying that trans people need our support and that queer couples are just couples. But I guess it takes some effort to do that. It's a hell of a lot easier to tell people, "You should be afraid. Go hide and cower with your guns until we make it safe for you again."

If the "anti-woke" forces had to say what they ultimately want, it would sound vile. It's about erasure. It's about elimination. It's about returning to an imagined past that they keep insisting was somehow good when, really, it was just a clusterfuck of hate, violence, and repression. That's why they need to be pushed to say it.

There is no "woke mind virus." There is only what's real and what's fake. And the GOP can't face reality.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[randr]

3. The projection grows larger

I am ready to bet that a real virus will be found that is affecting the rational minds of these people.

[thenelm1]

15. Some type of mold that causes rot. n/t

[randr]

16. Heart disease caused by anger

[mountain grammy]

4. K & R

[Botany]

5. "this agenda are fucking frightened little bitches asserting their remaining power to fuck shit up."

AKA "they" have to make shit up to their base all riled up at their nonsense because when it
comes to the issues and policies they have nothing and the demographics of what America
will become is 100% deadly to them. So they have to have non issues like where does a trans
person take a leak or CRT or how men are mistreated by society or the threat from teachers
teach what they need to teach or how vaccines are bad and so on. And they will loose end of
story. What is DeSantis going to do remove the 1st amendment?

[scarletlib]

6. Rude always lays it on the table for what it is.

[niyad]

7. Spot on, RP.

[flying_wahini]

8. Well the white straight agenda worked great in the old days. Thankfully some of us

Figured it out about 50 years ago.
You have to hand it to the GOP; they never evolve, do they?

[SouthernDem4ever]

10. They make Neanderthals look like progressives

[paleotn]

9. Exactly. People sometimes just don't want to share.

Current demographic and cultural trends are really about having to SHARE power and many white people just can't handle that. They want a return to white hegemony and if that requires rejecting democracy for neo-fascism then they're all about it. Two bit hucksters like DeSantis and Trump understand this consciously or unconsciously and they're riding that wave of discontent like Hitler rode the wave of cultural anti-Semitism and WWI myth.

[usonian]

11. It's a fascist cult.

Right out of the fascist playbook.

Culture wars are a cover-up for demonizing one group or another (racism) as a "badge" of membership.

The exact "outrage du jour" varies. Words have no relation to truth. They are only used for effect.

In short:

[GreenWave]

12. It's like they are brainwashed 1984 masses.

Except in the novel there was never such a large amount of persons to disagree with them.

[Hortensis]

13. Yes. They would curtail the power of EVERYONE, whites included.

not just some races or sexual orientations. It's kind of extremely important that EVERYONE understand that.

Hierarchical society. Male supremacy. Obedience to authority. Conformity.

Too many still imagine the serious danger is to nonwhites and LGBTQ+. Nonwhites and LGBTQ+ think they're about them, of course, and battle attacks on them. The great white "cisgender" majority comfortably sure they'd remain privileged, their power and equality mostly intact, their concern for others.

Authoritarian societies are all hierarchical. ONLY THE MEN AT THE TOP get to be empowered. The people get to be obedient and conforming.

That goes double for WOMEN, who are to be subjugated to men. This is such a powerful gut-level belief and motivator that it even draws males from targeted races to support authoritarian movements.

Which typically welcome them.

And eliminating LGBTQ+ freedoms is necessary to the imposition of dominant-male/subordinate-female conformity on EVERYONE. That's why it needed to be prioritized. "Duh" when we think about it?

Assisted by vulnerability to persecution, of course. First they come for...

[Jean Genie]

14. FFLB

I LOVE it! Fucking Frightened Little Bitches - couldn't have expressed it better. Thanks.

[Cha]

17. TY & RP

[Blue Owl]

18. K&R