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Moostache

(10,701 posts)
5. Racism. Pure, unadulterated racism.
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 07:24 PM
Sep 2019

Then add in a healthy dose of fear, given throughout the day on TV and radio and in conversations with like-minded individuals...

Fear of what? Someone (libs, gummint, minorities) taking from them and giving to someone else as if it were a 1-to-1 trade off. "You damn liburls are not gunna get my stuff and give it them illegal aliens with their taco trucks and lazy wives and anchor babies. I work hard for mine and you just want to give it away to lazy stoners on their mom's basement couch or that negro lady with 4 kids from 3 men at age 19....well, they ain't getting mine!!!"

It really is that simple. TV and Radio parroting concerted messaging on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual level helps reinforce this...then people who WANT to have their racism and their unearned privileged position upheld, latch onto it, weave it into their personal identity ("Us real 'muricans....not them invaders and their libtard supporters&quot .

Add in religion - preaching the false gospels of Christianity (prosperity or traditional) and the further breaking down from citizens to tribal members and you have a toxic stew.

But it is based on Racism, Fear and False Information...there's a reason a walking douchebag like Frank Luntz is a millionaire and able to command attention - he is one of their heinous enablers...but that is how they do it...

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