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13. Reich Wing voters hate ambiguity. Conspiracy themes give them the

Sun May 24, 2020, 03:10 PM

May 2020

certainty that someone out "there" is controlling things. Randomness and existential themes scare the Wonderbread shit out of them.

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We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult [View all] dajoki May 2020 OP

Fringe freaks. pwb May 2020 #1

For Big Business, it's the Mussolini/Hitler model of politics sandensea May 2020 #3

Reality denialism. C_U_L8R May 2020 #4

? The Ozarks? underpants May 2020 #7

Oh I see underpants May 2020 #9

Crazy, right? C_U_L8R May 2020 #10

Yeah. They are heard Trump's siren underpants May 2020 #11

Nero influenced Romans with conspiracy propaganda graffiti on walls. KentuckyWoman May 2020 #5

Trump Translators -re: the normalization of Trump's ramblings tulipsandroses May 2020 #6

Oooh more reading underpants May 2020 #8

An Australian journalist made this same point last year: tblue37 May 2020 #12

Reich Wing voters hate ambiguity. Conspiracy themes give them the kairos12 May 2020 #13