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ck4829's JournalCults and cult-like movements will often coin new words as well as recycle existing words, phrases
This has a couple of functions...
These groups often have narrow ideologies that are quite extreme, so with these words and phrases, they can refit the world and explain how it works in a new sense
They can also use these words and phrases to communicate with other insiders as well as identify and denigrate the outsider, the 'other'.
The Hutaree had their bizarre rank system - Radok, Boramander, Zulif, Arkon, and Lukore
Scientology has "fair game", "suppressive persons", "clear", "dead agent", and more
White supremacy has "1488", "14 words", "RaHoWa", and others
Incels identify their 'enemies' (AKA anyone with a sexuality they don't share) as "Chads" or "Beckys"
And then you see today's right wing... throwing out things like "political correctness", "virtue signaling", and "cultural marxism", making sure to use "liberal" as an insulting adjective, and describing anything they don't like as "socialist"
Let's remember the Russian hacks didn't actually get any real dirt, so they had to MAKE dirt up
The 'worst' thing of the hacked emails was John Podesta in a Homer Simpson-esque voice saying "Mmm... Pizza" and they pretty much went into this mode:
Pizza
Letter P
P - Pedophilia
Pedophilia Scandal... involving Satanists... Secret Tunnels... George Soros... Hillary Clinton...
Yes, really.
Now we know that Russian botnets helped spread Pizzagate around and we also know Michael Flynn, Jerome Corsi, and others helped spread this propaganda.
This was a psy ops campaign against the United States by a foreign country and the Trump campaign people were active accomplices to that.
Period.
Pluralistic Ignorance - The thing the Far Right vitally needs to enact it's agenda
In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance is a situation in which a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but incorrectly assume that most others accept it, and therefore go along with it. This is also described as "no one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes". In short, pluralistic ignorance is a bias about a social group, held by the members of that social group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance
Whatever you call them... the alt-right, the far right, white nationalists, white supremacists, the neo Nazis, Republican conspiracy theorists, confederate flag wavers, etc.; they don't have the numbers. They really don't. That's not to say this radical right is just a couple guys who can be counted on one hand, but they don't have the manpower to directly influence policy through sheer numbers alone.
The thing they have going for them is a perverted hope that nobody will resist them.
The problem is sometimes we give it to them.
"They're mouthing off conspiracy theories about George Soros working with the martian sex colonies to stage school shootings again... better to just not make a scene."
"But they have a permit... I shouldn't resist them."
"This tweet seems pretty Islamophobic, but should I actually report it? Hmmm..."
Don't give them any platform and don't let them think America agrees with them.
More than just division, the 6 other goals of the Putinist regime
They want to:
Encourage apathy - When politics is becoming led by conspiracy theorists of Pizzagate and QAnon and by people who have fundamentalist and dogmatic beliefs that will not change their minds no matter what evidence is presented as well as openly and literally encouraging apathy with things like #walkaway, it will turn a lot of people off of politics completely.
Why? Think about it, if we're not caring about politics here, then of course we're not going to care about human rights or corruption inside Russia.
Encourage acceptance of human rights abuses from the Russian government against the Russian people - On the note of conspiracy theories being promoted, that's another reason. We're talking about a country with their intelligence agency that has most likely blown up their own people to prop up Putin, lets whistleblowers like Sergei Magnitsky die from a heart attack or maybe it was a blow to the head or maybe it was an abdominal rupture or maybe it was Bill Browder (Yes, all listed as causes of death for the man at different times), we're talking about a country that poisons dissidents with polonium and novichok, that to look tough against their terrorists they end up killing both the terrorist and hostages they take (And sometimes they kill more hostages than terrorists themselves), and more. But hey we have no room to talk because apparently we have satanist pizza cabals and Hillary Clinton killed 400 people with a crossbow or something.
Normalize their own conspiracy theories and state sponsored xenophobia and bigotry - Their Bill Browder is our George Soros. Their foreign agencies are our secret Muslims. Their GLBTQ people are well our GLBTQ people.
Promote dehumanization - It's ridiculous we're even having this debate, a human being's life and dignity should always be worth more than a gun or a confederate statue. But now we're seeing this debate where we're hearing "Hmm, maybe that's not the case"
We are seeing our fellow Americans get attacked and have their unique value destroyed.
Cause or enable destruction - Quite simply, a goal here is to lower the functioning of the US, sap social and economic power. The conspiracy theorists and the alt-right forces we see being promoted can do that through several ways; the first is their racism and xenophobia is just not workable, there's some money to be made in racism, but more in having cosmopolitanism and globalization. If you don't want a Muslim American's money or a GLBTQ American's money, that's less money moving about, that's less fluidity and more instability. Not to mention the conspiracy theorists and the alt-right often have no real economic ideas or platforms.
Promote Horizontal Nationalism or the Psy Ops Coup - Like the virus that uses the material of it's host, this is where we're actually being made into Russia or more sympathetic for the Putinist regime. If one side says Putin is bad, then the 'other side' will contradict it. We're seeing rhetoric being made where there are Americans who are actually more 'other' than the Putinist regime. Google "Thank you Russia" or "I'd rather be Russian than Democrat". The funny thing is Russia didn't create that propaganda, they did.
What if we reach a point where the liberal is seen as oppressor and Russia is seen as a potential liberator?
Uniting, coming together, stopping divisiveness and bitterness. It's possible.
It should actually be very easy!
Unite, befriend, and love the people the far right hates: Liberals, Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, GLBTQ Americans, immigrants, etc.
Unite with other people who debunk and dismiss Republican conspiracy theories like Pizzagate, QAnon, False Flags, Crisis Actors, Birtherism, Jade Helm, White Genocide, and more.
Unite with other people who call out the quacks, conspiracy theorists, fearmongers, and extremists like the alt-right, the incels, homophobes, the Flynn clan, John Guandolo, Tony Perkins, Steve King, and the Trump clan.
One election isn't going to solve the authoritarianism and nationalism crisis in the US
It's going to take more than one election and it's going to take more than elections.
This would still be 100% true even if we took the Senate.
But now we have entrenched resistance to this crisis in the government itself in the form of the House.
The resistance must continue, but now it is stronger.
More than just Trump, the House Committee on Homeland Security will be our nation's shield
It looks as though we will gain the House, so people need to start looking at this committee now, contacting legislators and making sure the literal best and brightest are here.
It is tragically clear our government and executive branch is not equipped to deal with radicalized extremists of the alt-right, III%ers, incels, white nationalists, Islamophobes, and the ultra right which sees these groups as tips of the spear in reactionary genocide.
It will be up to this committee to right that wrong.
That "mental illness" that Republicans and the NRA blame shootings on is a byproduct of, well, them
They run on paranoia - They tell people to be afraid of the 'other' (Whether it's people of different colors, different religions, if they are immigrants, of different sexualities, etc.) or that everyone you don't like, and George Soros, are all connected in some nebulous conspiracy against you. They run on telling people that the 'other' is coming to take your money, your job, your life, etc.
They run on delusions other than just paranoia - They tell people that everything is fake, everything is a lie, everyone is out to get you, don't trust what you see, Trump and the Evangelicals are the greatest people ever. Trump is the only one in the whole world who can fix things. People aren't real, they're actors. Events aren't real, they're made up, false flags, fake news, etc. They either run on, promote, or just sit and nod while people like Alex Jones crank out bizarro conpsiracy theories.
They run on the deadly cocktail of anxiety and depression - They tell people things like "America's best days are behind it", that's there nothing to look forward to, that the past was the best time, the present sucks, and the future could only be great if it's some simulation of the past.
Picture the toxic person - Not the mentally ill person, but the person who says wanting help makes you weak, that men shouldn't show emotions like sadness, dismisses counselors and therapy as frauds, gets a mentally ill person a gun instead of thorazine, enables and excuses conspiracy theories instead of getting that person help, and more. Picture that person, now who do they vote for? Let's be honest.
Do Republicans cause mental illness? No. But they are definitely not treating it and they get in the way of treating it over and over.
