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This is what Trump has mastered. Think about his rallies, pressers, and tweets. It's a bit long. Ironically, you may get angry reading this.
"How to Understand the American Mind"
"...violence is what integrates the American personality, which is that of a paranoid narcissist, who is the perpetual victim, that constantly feels threatened by a hostile, malign world, which must be defended against with
violence...."
"...A moral and just and strong person must choose violence....the amount of suffering you can cause, you can get away with, even profit from, is a measure of how strong you are. Havent hurt anyone? Youre nobody a teacher, maybe. Addicted a nation to pills? Helped start a war? Now youre someone worth knowing, employing, respecting, admiring...."
"...Americans will always choose positional violence over nonviolence. They wont always choose the most loudly, flamboyantly violent option nuclear bombs but they will choose the one that hurts those those weaker than them as much as possible, that really inflicts the most suffering, trauma, hurt, abuse, over the long term, even if it hurts themselves. Thats the only way to feel or maybe even be, stay, and grow powerful, safe, and secure
in a Darwinian society where weakness equals death and cruelty equals virtue...."
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virgogal
(10,178 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Igel
(35,191 posts)Is Sanders? Harris?
Because if they are, then the claim is that this describes both you and them, as well. Do you see yourself in that description?
Even narrowing it to just "conservative mind" is still engaging in some pretty far-reaching stereotyping.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)to narrow it down a bit
empedocles
(15,751 posts)[Addiction', also provides interesting perspective - but another time and place]
maxrandb
(15,188 posts)I've said it before and will say it again..."I don't give one fuck what Donnie Shit for Brains voters say. I don't care how much they protest, or try to cover their asses with some bullshit "economic" argument... they voted for the prick for one reason and one reason only...he promised them that he would cause harm to the people they wanted to see hurt.
Donnie Shit for Brains, his entire fucking family, and fucksticks that continue to support him are like dogshit stuck in the grooves of your tennis shoes. You need to dig it out with a roofing nail, and soak in bleach.