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https://crooksandliars.com/2022/05/men-guns-are-holding-our-democracy-hostageMen With Guns Are Holding Our Democracy Hostage
The GOP is a religious cult and the god they worship is power. So they weaponize male rage.
By Susie Madrak May 26, 2022
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The GOP has a lot of high priests speaking to the masses this week, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott? He's the frickin' archbishop. The man speaks in self-serving gibberish, because he doesn't care about anybody but himself. (See: Multimillion settlement for me, but not for thee!) To Greg, naked ambition is a holy sacrament.
And so one of the tenets of his religion is "blame everything but the guns."
We have a society where the only acceptable emotions for "real" men to display are hate, anger and rage. Is that a mental health crisis? Sure. But add in easy access to military weapons of mass slaughter to help them express that rage. That's the real problem.
And now, the angry men with guns are the shock troops of their religion. The high priests egg on their violence, and some of that is meant to keep the guns from being trained in their own direction.
You realize that's the real reason why everyone's so reluctant to indict Donald Trump, right? Everyone is so afraid of the weaponized rage of the men with guns.
Democracy held hostage.
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Men With Guns Are Holding Our Democracy Hostage (Original Post)
babylonsister
May 2022
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The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)1. Something To This, Ma'am
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babylonsister
(171,070 posts)4. Do you have a link to the
neuroministries Putin set up? Thanks, and welcome to DU!
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)3. Angry white males are the new Storm Troopers, Gestapo for the GOP.
They will kill as many Americans as it takes to achieve their diabolical goals.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)5. Plenty of white women enable this.
Women in power. Boebert, Palin, Greene. Horrible people.
crickets
(25,981 posts)6. Exactly so. K&R
SYFROYH
(34,172 posts)7. Who is reluctant to indict Trump?