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That's one sexy motherfucker you 62,000,000 voted for. I finally get it! I can see why all those Republican $enators voted to keep him around. Who wouldn't want to watch this movie? Who wouldn't want to pour over his daily words as if they are the gospels themselves? Now if only one of you, even one of you 62,000,000 nihilistic nutjobs would admit that your emperor not only lost his clothes but lost his bright red tie to reality years ago. Of course, that will never happen because you're as far gone as he is. Well done!
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Two works that help me to understand how lost Trump supporters are include Lone Star by T.R. Fehrenbach and The Authoritarians [free download here] by Robert Altemeyer.
The first explains in meticulous detail the militant arrogance which Texans have infused into the Republican Party and its followers, while the second explores the mindless adherence of those followers to support a party which does everything it can to take everything it can away from those followers with their willing compliance.
Fehrenback once observed that "In many ways Texans, like most peoples, came to define themselves by their enemies – a source of strength, but also of problems for the future." [Source]
Altemeyer wrote that “Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders cook up along themselves. It happens when the followers submit too much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do whatever they want--which is often something undemocratic, tyrannical and brutal.” [Source]
John Dean wrote a very good and concise summary of how Altemeyer influenced his work Conservatives Without Conscience. In his summary, Dean writes: "Bob Altemeyer saw Donald Trump coming. More accurately, he saw the kinds of men and women who would vote for a Donald Trump-type candidate for high office....a few of these people score high on testing that shows they not only can be devoted followers of authoritarian leaders, the so-called social dominators like Trump who want to be in charge, but they also test high as social dominators themselves. These seemingly incongruous testing results—testing high as both followers and leaders—have been explained as the social dominators envisioning the type of follower they want as leaders, or their willingness to be good followers until they get their chance to become leaders."
Dean's summary also includes a lengthy quote from Altemeyer himself, well worth the read.
One begins to understand how certain philosophers (like Nietzsche) came to view humanity so darkly from reading such works. Does Nietzsche not explain GOP followers well in observing that "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering"?
And what of the "open the nation" protesters who willingly risk their own lives and health making the insane desires of the already-too-wealthy come to pass? Does not the observation that "To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence" make a lot of sense?
With the recent and numerous failures of "progressives" to stand up for the people and against corporatist socialism, sentient humans can see that there is no cavalry riding over the hill to our rescue. We are well and truly on our own against a rapacious horde that will give no quarter.
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