CrookedRd [none/use name]

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  • CrookedRd [none/use name]
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    topoliticsQuestion on right wing rhetoric?
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    4 years ago

    Yeah. For sure. Nothing is appealing about it. I guess I do buy into the idea that government policy is an expression of values, and that there is a patriotic duty (maybe this is the "appeal"?) to get us out of a situation where we, like, bankrupt people for getting sick. Or tether people hopelessly to jobs that will kill them. Ire goes. . .I don't even know where. Ugh, I'm such a baby lefty.


  • CrookedRd [none/use name]
    hexagon
    topoliticsQuestion on right wing rhetoric?
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    4 years ago

    Ooooohhhhh...this makes sense. So they supplanted the globalists mythology for the "bad guys" (Dems), but give a pass to the "right guys" because they're going to do good things like stop abortion or whatever. So, what's the easiest way to undermine their faith in the system? (Again, I don't know if I'm actually on board with the idea that these people can be radicalized, but let's say they can).



  • CrookedRd [none/use name]
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    topoliticsQuestion on right wing rhetoric?
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    4 years ago

    So you think they're just defining "corrupt" differently? I don't know, I feel like I know plenty of right wingers who are concerned (obsessed) with the economic aspects. They talk about clinton's, and they're not talking about epstein, they're talking about arkansas land deals, for example. But I don't hear them talking about oligarchy, I hear them talking about "democracy". Like do they just have misplaced optimism in the system or something, even though they acknowledge that the whole thing is corrupt?