(September 30, 2020 at 10:24 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(September 30, 2020 at 5:18 am)ILikeRedBull Wrote: Trumpanizes will see what they want to see and literally make up what they saw. The reality is Trump came across as a schoolyard bully and unpresedential. These networks hosting these debates need to grow a sack and start cutting mics. Or are they too scared of Trumpies getting mad at them? Also they need to do fact checks during the debate. Kind of like how the hosts on CSPAN do with callers.
That's not true, it's a comfortable lie that the american left tells themselves about the american right. In reality, they know that he's using them just as well as he knows that they are using him. They don't really live in an alternative reality making up what they see - they like what they see as-is, and all of the junk you bicker with them about is them flat out trolling you. They know that too, they pride themselves on it.
They're not actually crazy, they're not delusional...they're something else, something worse, something that we refuse to name. We'd rather believe that they were crazy, as americans and as their family,...because that would be better...than accepting them for what they are.
Reminds me of Bill Maher's new rules called Change Anxiety. Trump supporters like Trump because he reaffirms their irrational beliefs that often have severe racial undertones. He is the last gasp of this idea of a 1950s America in which minorities were told to shut up about their "rights" just so the white man can live comfortably. Because whenever a group like BLM protests, that makes these people uncomfortable. Because it is a reminder that we aren't this perfect nation they like to think we are.
