• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They think that they can create an authoritative system and rules that will bring people in line and create one nation under their values (while disregarding the rules of the current system).

    They know that it won’t be supported by everyone, but they assume that the problems will come mainly from the groups they want to purge anyways. That’s why they get so pissed off when they see “members of their group” supporting the groups they hate and have shit like “race traitor” in their vocabulary. They think there’s a brotherhood that doesn’t really exist between people who look similar.

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      They think that they can create an authoritative system and rules that will bring people in line

      Sometimes it just seems that they were raised on authoritative media (including the TV news and radio they admire). First, the Levant stories about voices from the sky and burning bushes. Then Trump is famous for his TV personality of “you’re fired!” commandments. Rick Roderick’s 1990’s descriptions help me with the words: “And on a Freudian account, it’s not accidental that that’s the time you reach out for large and invisible fathers to protect you… and mothers. And you know what, that’s elegant suspicion. It is not an argument; it’s an elegant suspicion. In fact when you look at the iconic significance of churches, you know the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, the family values stuff, you know… I mean, I hate to sound cynical, but as Freud says, they whole thing is so patently infantile. So obviously infantile, that to anyone with the love of humanity it’s just sad to think that most people will never rise above this view of life.”