Some readers will recall I have offered our Trump
supporting fellow Americans a format for good faith discussion a number of
times.
One example is my request for any information they had to
set me straight. What are the facts I am missing? Just fill in the blanks.
Dave, I have to say you are stating falsehoods, or misunderstanding, by claiming (_____) and (_______). These verifiable facts and evidence (_____)
and (____) suggest you are quite mistaken.
Another was a simple request to enlighten me as to their
understanding of just WHEN America was great before 2016. How far was it they
wanted Trump to take us back? When were those golden years of greatness? Were
they the years when Clinton balanced the budget with a surplus?
Again, all they had to do was fill in the blanks.
Trump WILL make America great again, like it
used to be before 2016, from the years_____ to
____.
Not one Trumpist was up for the challenge. Apparently, it's
easier to just call me a commie. I'll refer to a couple examples of how they respond.
Exhibit A: Trumpist blogger
Darrell wondered if there could be common ground between the left and right. My
suggestion for common ground was agreement that Trump lost a fair election in
2020, and he lied about non-existent massive voter fraud that cheated him, and
he illegally attempted to overturn the certified legal results. So, he "informed" me I'm a
communist.
"Oh, and by the way, when I called you a
communist, it wasn’t necessarily meant as a pejorative but rather more as a
descriptive term. You support many of the very tenets of the communist creed
according to what you have written in the past that are antithetical to
America, its values, and its Constitution. So while you see that is retaliatory
name-calling, I meant it only as classifier of your stated beliefs in
big-government, anti-capitalism, anti-faith, and anti-family rhetoric."
After numerous requests for any citation of my words
promoting communism, he failed or ignored me every time. What he's saying is I
disagree with him and that makes me a commie. This hysteria has been with us
since the post-Bolshevik revolution Red Scare to McCarthyism but has been
amplified to the extreme by Trumpism. The more fear and anxiety white
conservatives feel in their racial resentments and culture wars the more
“communists” they see. This is at the root of white nationalism.
Instead of discussing a topic, this is the type of anger
and hostility we see in the Trumpist reaction to an invitation to good faith
discussion.
Exhibit B: Just the Facts aka
Vern resorted to dismissal and denigration.
"debate with him in good faith" Bull
Shit
And there it is. The Trumpist idea of good faith
discussion. This proves again they really don't want to LISTEN to ANYTHING that
Trump doesn't want them to hear. He is their Master and commander. They will
obey him and BELIEVE his words as gospel. So, to them there's no need to
consider what anyone else has to say. He is their new religious leader, one
they are utterly incapable of imagining to be a conman, a charlatan, a
deceiver, a malevolent mendacious messiah filling them with hate and lies.
Their closed-minded belief system must regard anyone who
opposes him as evil villains, out to persecute their innocent and maligned
savior. Trump’s paranoia and projection becomes THEIR paranoia and projection.
As the social media memes say, “We won’t change the
minds of Trump supporters with facts, logic, or appeals of decency. If they
could be influenced by these, they wouldn’t be Trump supporters.” And “They
will never admit he’s guilty because that would mean admitting he made fools of
them all”.
And thus, they are locked into being true believers to the
bitter end. They will eagerly buy into their leader's paranoid persecution complex. "Never forget our enemies want to take away my freedom, because I will never let them take away your freedom."
Invoking evil "enemies" is at the heart of the political indoctrination by every fascist and dictator. The darkness this portends is truly chilling.
All they can do is demean and insult the person who
questions their Dear Leader's lies. Like any cult of true believers, they can
be violent thugs in service to their leader, as they showed us on January 6.
This fanaticism has already resulted in death and injuries. Tragically this
means more death and destruction will come from this white nationalist
movement. They want their power and white nationalist minority rule and will do
ANYTHING to seize it.
Trump is America's savior to them. And his true believers
hate us for opposing him. They must demonize us as "communists who hate
America", the worst thing their enraged, deluded, and deranged minds can
concoct.
Obviously, they need ZERO words or evidence to back their
absurd paranoid accusations, because they ARE paranoid. All Trumpist white
nationalists are terrified of being "replaced". The idea of a
multiracial democracy scares the wits out of them.
Xenophobia and racism are their default reaction to
immigration.
The Washington Post noted this recent manufactured outrage.
Now, both Trump and MAGA Inc., a super PAC that
backs him, claim that Biden is funding a Michigan program that they say
provides rent to undocumented immigrants. A MAGA radio ad claims: “Did you see
Biden’s paying rent for illegals now? They get handouts and we pay for all of
it.” In a video posted on social media, Trump said Biden was “selecting and
stealing your money to give free housing to illegal alien migrants and then
asking you to quarter these foreign armies.”
At issue is a Michigan program, launched last
year, under which individuals who qualify may receive as much as $500 a month
in rental subsidies for up to 12 months. The key word is “qualify” — the
subsidies in question are not available to people in the country illegally.
Their final solution is a dictator and Trump promised to be
one. He WILL refuse to accept the will of the voters if he loses, and likely stoke more violence. He is their great white hope to keep their white minority in power. And
make no mistake, this is EXACTLY their idea of what makes America great.
They will regurgitate Russian propaganda and corrupt and
undermine our House, Senate, the courts, and our elections to permanently
establish white Christian Nationalist minority rule. Their Furious Fuhrer is
already calling for brown shirt style intimidation by an army of “poll
watchers”. MAGA threats have already resulted in massive resignations of
election workers. He’s filling their paranoid fantasies with neo-Nazi rhetoric
of an ominous "definite anti-white feeling" in America.
Yes, we've seen it all before. In the last century they
howled about "anti-Aryan communist Jews, anti-German socialists,
journalists, and educators” ALL standing in the way of making Germany great
again.
Today they howl about "Anti-white, America-hating
Marxists, Communists, socialists, radical leftists, Black racists, Brown
invaders, child molesting LGBTQ Americans, in ADDITION to enemies of the people
like journalists and educators" aka Democrats and their voters, ALL
standing in the way of making America great again.
The true believer fanatics embrace a vengeful indicted
criminal and authoritarian sociopath who divides our country with hate and
lies. Neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, the Klan, and other election
denying, anti-democracy American white nationalist Trumpists are showing us
their true heritage.
And that heritage is the direct opposite of a democratic
republic with bipartisan legislative cooperation and compromise by good faith
discussion and debate.
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