I re-watched that PBS Frontline episode on the NRA again last night…

[MrScorpio]

And one thing that struck me was how invested wingers are in their own fears and delusions and how much it keeps them involved politically, throughout the season and not.

With us, we wait for presidential election years, operating under some impression that this is the only important time there is.

Say what you will about right wing paranoia; it keeps those motherfuckers on their toes. Fed a daily dose of scary horrors, delivered by obtuse, cookie-cutter blondes and bloated, blowhard bloviators, there's no end to their fears. Everything is something to be afraid of and angry about, no ridiculous lie to be left unexploited.

If you're going live in the real world, you just don't have enough time and blind stupidity to give a royal fuck about shit like coffee cups and the "Caliphate."

These assholes are tiring, but it doesn't make them right. It's makes them insufferable and, frankly, I wish that half of us would take the time and effort used up in aggravating ourselves over whomever should be our nominee (I still haven't made up my mind, by the way), to relegate the far right wing to the trash heap of history.

Do not forget who our adversaries are, they all will never forget about us.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Succinct, to the point, and absolutely correct.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. Frankly, I don't think anything is going to change regarding the gun atmosphere...

until we do something about the economy. The current stage of our economy feeds despair and hopelessness which contributes to the paranoia that drives the gun nuts. I don't think it is any coincidence that the hording of guns correlates with the increase in inequality since the early 80's. Just another by-product of the reagan revolutiuon and the republican parties use of fear to motivate its base.

[Eleanors38]

3. Accurate enough. I would add: NRA knows us better than we know them. nt