Up until 2016, I naively assumed that confidence in being right about a subject stemmed from the ability to precisely articulate what it entailed and why your position on this subject was correct through facts and reason. Then, I started covering the Russian meddling hoax extensively for another dissident publication. It became something I knew like the back of my hand.
Over drinks with “educated” people, nearly everyone expressed confidence that Russia had stolen the election for Trump. When I’d inquire about what specific piece(s) of evidence had convinced them the election outcome was illegitimate, that look of “oh we’ve got a conspiracy theorist on our hands” was the only thing forthcoming.
This period taught me that being clueless instilled adamantine confidence in a wide swath of humanity. That’s why now when the topic of Antifa mayhem inevitably comes up, and these same sorts of people excuse it by saying “yeah, but they’re attacking Nazis,” I respond by asking what constitutes a Nazi in the year 2020.
The most common response is “they’re fascists,” to which I ask, “what’s a fascist?” None of these people with fancy degrees can provide an accurate answer, either modern or historical. It gets fun when I assert that from a moral standpoint, if I were to sanction extrajudicial violence against people for their opinions, I’d be able to specifically explain these opinions.
It’s much more enjoyable to troll cosmopolitans than discuss these matters with Fox News-tier conservatives. They immediately start into why Antifa are the actual fascists. Every time with those guys it moves onto why George Soros is a Nazi and Michelle Obama is a man.
On the subject of Antifa, my suspicion is that if you’ve got an army of lunatics so satisfied of who’s good and evil that they’re willing to commit arson and murder, Joe Biden’s prospects in the electoral college won’t be one of their considerations.
The salient problem is that we’re heading into an election that Joe had in the bag until all of the rioting took its toll, particularly in some states that could swing for Trump if the voters are mad enough at the mayhem. The entire establishment is now talking about how to overturn the election after it’s stolen by Trump.
This is probably out of panic. Four years ago, the consensus was that he’d lose in a landslide. The talking point was therefore about how dangerous it was for our democracy not to accept an election result. This about-face in sophistry leads one to surmise that it’s the product of confidential numbers that paint a different picture than last time.
When a foreign election or leader is discarded through U.S. influence, rioting usually plays a crucial role in that process. If they were willing to gin up and sanction everything that’s transpired thus far in order to make him look bad, what will they allow in order to get him gone?
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
A nazi isn’t a facist lol. Facism is state corporatism. Nazism is just dressed white people communism. Most of the time people say Facism is a state led by 1 man which can be many things, a monarchy to despotism.
National Socialism and Fascism were very similar and highly successful systems of government, economy and society – unlike Soviet or Chinese Communism or Americas weird blend of Corporate Communism.
Not really similar. Oswald Mosleys bio says that Mussolini was really angry when he found out mosley was a friend of Hitler and kicked him out of Italy, this being before they allied together. They are pretty successful though, won’t deny. Wouldn’t work here in Dixie though. Too foreign.
And Stalin kicked Mussolini out of the Communist Party when Mussolini saw the light. There were differences between Fascist and National Socialist, but very similar, with NS being the more advanced political theory. Correct, will not work in Dixie or anywhere else in America – but does Dixie even exist anymore ? Being a Republican Red State shorn of its history, monuments and political power I have sadly concluded it is now just a collection of people with quaint accents absorbed into the American Marxist Consumer Borg.
When I am conversing with those who dismiss everything with a pejorative label, I point that out, thereby shifting the conversation to how people, and, indeed, masses of people, are manipulated by the techniques of stigmatization.
After that,I go right to work on their underlying assumptions –
#1. That elections have never been stolen or unduly influenced.
#2. That the ideas that they think represent The United States of America actually have very little to do with this country, other than they have been put forward by shadowy corners in recent decades and repeatedly trumpeted by the mainstream media as what the ‘real’ meaning is of ‘The Nation’.
In doing this, I put them on the defensive, something which, if memory serves, has never once failed me.
Not that they like me afterwards, for in having politely disabused them of their notions, they inevitably have some resentment of me, something which I see in their eye compels them to think of me as ‘extreme’.
As to ‘extremist’, I always turn this on the head of anyone who uses this term in my presence, I quick to remind them that, insofar as they have defined it, not only were the Founding Fathers such, so, too, was Jesus Chryst.
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside (I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside (save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark