"Well, does that make me a homophobe?... It simply makes me a Christian. Christians believe in biblical morality, kind of by definition, or they should...
In case you had any doubt that the GOPigs aren’t disgusting.
Trump has made the GOP realize that fear really is a great motivator for turnout and political participation. So they’re turning the fascism to 100 and trying to make every American afraid of literally everything from bathrooms, children’s hospitals, crime (black people), the deep state (Jews), everything. Fear is the primary motivator to the fascist mind. If you can make someone deathly afraid of their neighbors or anyone in their community you can then tell them to vote for yourself because you’re the only antidote. I mean, their entire platform is the culture war, that’s all they have, but it’s effective, it turns people into maniacs. Slapping the label “woke” on literally anything is enough for Republicans to be afraid of it and start shooting up public spaces over. It’s incredibly terrifying to look where this country is headed.
Yeah. I would argue that sensationalism and exaggeration play into that. Even the left sometimes does this with trying to get people to take action, though not to the same degree that the GOP and their media machine have done this, of course, which is truly obscene and horrid.
The left has little power in using fear because unlike racism, homophobia, and xenophobia, classism directed at the rich hasn’t really been a core part of American culture in its history. The GOP is able to cultivate and strengthen ingrained racist, xenophobic and homophobic attitudes many Americans have. That’s why I think trump, and many politicians like him became so popular. In the past thirty years, there has been a progressive push to rightfully shame and diminish racist etc. attitudes, but when trump came into office, and the movement against that push coalesced around him, he made people feel less shameful about those attitudes and to embrace them. That is the truly scary part about what’s changing.
It’s something you can clearly see a little bit in the OP. He knows that because of the shame culture around homophobia, he can’t outright say he’s a homophobe, but he knows that he is one, and wants to dog whistle that to other people like him. Eventually, they WILL go mask off, and when they’re comfortable enough to do that, I wonder what horrible place our country will be in.
Trump has made the GOP realize that fear really is a great motivator for turnout and political participation. So they’re turning the fascism to 100 and trying to make every American afraid of literally everything from bathrooms, children’s hospitals, crime (black people), the deep state (Jews), everything. Fear is the primary motivator to the fascist mind. If you can make someone deathly afraid of their neighbors or anyone in their community you can then tell them to vote for yourself because you’re the only antidote. I mean, their entire platform is the culture war, that’s all they have, but it’s effective, it turns people into maniacs. Slapping the label “woke” on literally anything is enough for Republicans to be afraid of it and start shooting up public spaces over. It’s incredibly terrifying to look where this country is headed.
Yeah. I would argue that sensationalism and exaggeration play into that. Even the left sometimes does this with trying to get people to take action, though not to the same degree that the GOP and their media machine have done this, of course, which is truly obscene and horrid.
The left has little power in using fear because unlike racism, homophobia, and xenophobia, classism directed at the rich hasn’t really been a core part of American culture in its history. The GOP is able to cultivate and strengthen ingrained racist, xenophobic and homophobic attitudes many Americans have. That’s why I think trump, and many politicians like him became so popular. In the past thirty years, there has been a progressive push to rightfully shame and diminish racist etc. attitudes, but when trump came into office, and the movement against that push coalesced around him, he made people feel less shameful about those attitudes and to embrace them. That is the truly scary part about what’s changing.
It’s something you can clearly see a little bit in the OP. He knows that because of the shame culture around homophobia, he can’t outright say he’s a homophobe, but he knows that he is one, and wants to dog whistle that to other people like him. Eventually, they WILL go mask off, and when they’re comfortable enough to do that, I wonder what horrible place our country will be in.
very good point