Trump delivers nothing. Republicans enjoy delivering nothing. The con is manifest.
Getting nothing from their politicians has turned the Republican base into a resentful cesspool of regressive reactionaries.
The Right hates everyone who is getting something out of life. They resent every person who is managing to improve their situation. The Right sees representation and improved language/terms as threats to a poisonous past of white [male] rule.
The Right despises solidarity and allyship. They want to drag people down/backwards to make themselves feel less alone/miserable.
Rather than enjoy the investment Biden is putting into America, conservatives wish the country to fail, they wish the institutions and oversight to leave their villains alone.
The vindictive urge to destroy what helps an inclusive progressive community is GOP gospel.
Those young boys/young men who cling to white male supremacy and gun culture are told they are ‘less than’ by parents/family/algorithms, and reject a society who tells them they are loved/supported, because conservatives do not value empathy and emotional growth.
When faced with the rising expectations of civility and compassion towards a diverse, equitable, fair society, conservatives put hate and grievances above inclusion.
The world is not what conservatives want you to believe.
The Clarence Thomas story is a perfect example of Republicans loving corruption more than any other attribute.
No black man could survive in Republican politics unless they represent the white corporate agenda in the most corrupt way possible. Recuse himself from a case with obvious conflict of interest? Financial connection? Donor gifts?
Clarence is compromised in so many cases and Federalist Society types love it
So ‘try that in a small town’ is just white people threatening when they are an overwhelming majority in a small town, but when evenly matched, they get their asses kicked. Bigly.
Young Americans who identify strongly with gun use and gun ownership often hold male supremacist beliefs and racial resentment.
The young people who are most closely associated with guns are more likely to be White people who have worse symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to new research conducted by Everytown for Gun Safety, American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The research also found that men were more familiar with and agreed more with the following “gun narratives”: “Guns allow the weak to stand up to the strong,” “People should buy guns now because society might collapse in our lifetime;” “It isn’t fair that the actions of a few troubles individuals should have a negative effect on the gun rights of good Americans who have done everything right;” “Guns are the best way to defend yourself, loved ones and your community;” and “Guns bring families together.”
This first-of-its-kind look at American youth’s attitudes about gun violence polled over 4,000 American young people between the ages of 14 and 30 from a nationally representative sample over the past year. The researchers, who also conducted qualitative focus groups with participants, found that youth with stronger male supremacist and racist attitudes tend to hold stronger beliefs that adults in schools should be armed, feel safer with guns than without guns, and have stronger trust in the police.
A number of beliefs and experiences corresponded to higher measures of male supremacy. The higher the number of experiences a person has had related to injuries or deaths from gun violence, the higher the belief respondents held that guns defend minorities, and the higher the belief that the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to overthrow the government, all correlated with higher scored measures of male supremacy.
Pasha Dashtgard, the director of research at PERIL and an expert on male supremacy and online radicalization, said one factor propelling this sentiment is a shifting economic landscape in America.
“In places of economic instability, men are shifting from this attitude of man as provider to man as protector,” he said. “You may not be able to, as a man, be the primary breadwinner, but you can — through acquiring guns and the willingness to use guns for violence — reclaim your masculinity as a protector.”
Even in young people, this sentiment was notable and behind many of the things that participants expressed to the researchers during interviews. Dashtgard said this speaks to a larger cultural dynamic at play currently, where many White men are feeling unsure of how to articulate themselves as men in current society. As a result, many young men are turning to guns as an “unimpeachable access to masculinity.”
[…] “I think we need to talk about why, when young men and boys are engaging with content about guns and American gun culture, they increasingly find themselves holding hateful beliefs about sexism and racism,” Ferrell-Zabala said of the findings of this new research. “The rhetoric of the gun lobby has long included racist and sexist overtones and dog-whistles, which we may assume only reaches the older generations in our country — but what our research shows is that this rhetoric does seem to be sticking with young boys and men.”
In his own research, Dashtgard regularly sees how low the bar to entry is for young men interacting with male supremacist and white supremacist content.
A recent study conducted in conjunction with the SPLC, Everytown, and PERIL that young Americans– largely White males– who are closely associated with guns and gun culture are more likely to hold beliefs supporting male privilege and racism.
Guns rot your mind/soul/emotions/esteem.
You become the gun. Your consumer identity is not a personality, it’s a cry for attention.
They should say it specifically at the ballot box, by not voting for anyone who says that Roe v. Wade was interpreted too liberally, or anything more extreme than that.
