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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNow you can understand how the Salem Witch Trials happened..
The average IQ leaves us with a lot of easily manipulated people, who follow the loudest voice. Most people are not the brightest bulbs in the string. Does not mean they are valued less, just means you get a charismatic character like Trump, Hitler etc who can wield power, they get in line , stay in line, and learn to fear the other.
We have a long road ahead of us to help the next generation back to normalcy.. but the scars of Trump will be on those who followed him for the rest of their lives.. does not mean they cannot move beyond it, but they will be scarred people.
Q-ANON, Proud Boys, Boogaloo boys (notice a lot of boys there) is prime example of people who are easily manipulated. fear fear fear..
Cicada
(4,533 posts)Peacetrain
(22,880 posts)If not stones, then press them to death through social media??
bullimiami
(13,108 posts)like the brown shirts. they seek it. they revel in it.
marybourg
(12,642 posts)smarter, more sophisticated or evolved than the populace that was caught up in the witch hysteria hundreds of years ago.
Spazito
(50,514 posts)it's a great point.
magicarpet
(14,187 posts)Pervasive, destructive,.. insane ways which we socialize our boys to become men is fucked up. The hidden agenda is to keep our men eagerly competitive so that they can be instantaneously transformed into ready warriors. Males have been weaponized to the point that they have become a threat to the very existence of a functional,.. society,.. community,.. commonwealth,... political systems,.. economic systems,.. religious systems,.. the population in general.
Toxic masculinity is dismantling our ability to live and function as a viable society.
Hyper,... macho,.. he men,...
Hard core rather than soft core males,...
Sports teams,.. more sports teams,.. to excite the rally cry and Neanderthal tendencies,... football,.. hockey,.. NASCAR,.. wrestling,.. cage fighting,... cock fighting,... pit bull fighting cages,... game hunting,... gun worship,... muscle cars,...
Video games,..
Aggrandizement of violence,...
Fascism frat- boy indoctrination of youth,...
Hard Alpha male attitudes,...
Right wing exploitation of the above,...
Via Fux Nuz,.. Limbaugh,.. other Nazi radio & TV,... social Web/Blog sites,.. etc., etc....
Toxic masculinity over whelms the right wing political spheres until ultimately transformed into Fascistic buddy buddy KLAN where racism,... ethnocentric,.. misogynistic,... homophobic,.. non-christian-obic,... change-obic,... advancement-obic,... fairness-obic,.. ethics adverse,... socialism-adverse,... community adverse,...
... ad-ifinitum