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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen the right's conspiracy theories are playing out before their very eyes...
They embrace them!
Think. Again.
(16,635 posts)From Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection
The concept emerged from Sigmund Freuds work on defense mechanisms and was further refined by his daughter, Anna Freud, and other prominent figures in psychology.
orthoclad
(4,451 posts)Call it goebbeling. Herr Goebbels advised Nazis to accuse the enemy of what you're planning.
Far more insidious than projection. Not defense: offense.
I believe there is some psych term for willingly holding two contradictory ideas. That might describe the redhats. But the plan, implemented by the plutocrat media, is a deliberate strategy to obscure the plutocrats' information management.
Think. Again.
(16,635 posts)orthoclad
(4,451 posts)it's a damaged psyche trying to protect itself. What we are seeing is far worse: an aggressive strategy perpetrated deliberately to cause damage. A tactic used by the Nazis in Germany!
stollen
(495 posts)orthoclad
(4,451 posts)After the Nazi minister of propaganda, Herr Goebbels.
Metaphorical
(2,124 posts)Disinformation intended to assert the dominance of the State, to paint anyone who disagrees as an enemy of the State and who should be punished as such. It is intended to confuse, demoralize, make people fearful. What Trump is doing is saying "Vote for me or else ... well, that's an awful nice house you have, shame to have someone bomb it." He knows that he cannot win lawfully, and his bag of dirty tricks is largely exhausted. All he has left is threats, to make people believe that he has an army of people willing to march at his command. In actuality he really doesn't ... but he's now locked into that bluff.
Biophilic
(4,562 posts)Reality is just on the edge of crazy, if not tipping over the edge.
orthoclad
(4,451 posts)The control of society by the plutocracy. Mux illustrates this well.
Biophilic
(4,562 posts)orthoclad
(4,451 posts)like T's clown show, to obscure the actual conspiracy and power play.
Chin music
(24,000 posts)Means we are having too think about what they've done to us.
How many of these things are too bizarre to imagine 15 years ago?
I think a lot of people vastly underestimate the power of russian counter-intel in his country and how deep they've burrowed.
trmp himself. And on a lesser note people like the FBI's counter-intel guy mcgonigle in the New York District, He was finally caught(?)/rolled up, a couple years ago. His point man was Oleg Deripaska. Just imagine how many there are in other areas. Money and power is why the gop get into 'public service'.Bribes are a fast track to that. I'm sure there's a whole system involved w it, and I'm further sure that these huge conventions of Congress out n the sticks sometimes, is one place they figure it all out and 'enroll' them in the program. 'You can't rape the willing' is a quote I heard before. Applies to them imo.
The overall scheme is to make us look like a shitty country and convert the common American to contribute to the attack out of ignorance and a false sense of patriotism.And literally entertain insurrection and throwing out elections.
Accountability in some areas, seems to have vanished, and surprisingly (or not), it's in some key places o topple this great nation from inside.
10 years of this routine has really poisoned a third of America imho.
But am I talking crazy 'conspiracy theories'? More likely than not, there's a lot of truth to it. And to not think about it, makes us a bigger victim bc...'who would've ever thought?' Until it was too late.
BattleRow
(897 posts)aquiescent accomplices ,and, in some cases,volunteer victims.
Think. Again.
(16,635 posts)...to pre-empt discussion of possible scenarios by putting any suspicions that varied from the official position into a "crazy" basket.
BattleRow
(897 posts)Think. Again.
(16,635 posts)BattleRow
(897 posts)have escaped being called conspirators,because they've successfully deflected the use of the word except when castigating others.
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orthoclad
(4,451 posts)The evidence hides in the open.
The plutocracy has its hands in our pockets every. single. day., while they distract us with colorful noise.
Meanwhile:
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https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58533
littlemissmartypants
(24,756 posts)I am no genius but I can think. ❤️
infullview
(1,035 posts)Pecker head musk
Wounded Bear
(60,316 posts)LiberalArkie
(16,171 posts)orthoclad
(4,451 posts)See discussion above.
GiqueCee
(1,228 posts)... Newt Gingrich reportedly said when questioned about his behavior, "Just do as I say, not as I do."
That's conservatism in a nutshell.
jfz9580m
(14,810 posts)I am in a good mood these days and find these creeps funny not threatening. I mean their rhetoric is dark etc..dont get me wrong.
But I do think they have overshot comically. These guys are a joke :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/23/trump-imaginary-world/
They are totally weird and batshit crazy . Charlie Chaplin would have had so much material for The Great Dictator 2024 were he alive like the late, great Hannibal Lector .
These guys are insane..
True Dough
(19,654 posts)Also head-scratching -- as in, how can a sentient human be naive enough to fall for the B.S.? But then some of them may see through the lies but they play along because they're so anti-immigrant and racist that they'll swallow everything else.
But some of them are threatening. J6 proved that. And there's going to be a replay of that after Trump loses again in November. The question is whether the violence loses steam or is more widespread this time. That is the troubling aspect.
jfz9580m
(14,810 posts)It is definitely scary sometimes. But it is also absurd beyond all sense and reason.
Good god, In 2004 Bush seemed clownish and ott and he was. However, 20 years on, the GOP has gone so far around the bend in response to the endemic ecological and economic crises they fostered via war & deregulation that the Bushies looks relatively sane.
orthoclad
(4,451 posts)used as part of the Reich Wing's overall strategy.
Not crazy. Deliberate.
We're up against the manipulators who killed hundreds of thousands of their followers during covid with all the antivax antimask nonsense, just to have a wedge issue. They are THAT cold-blooded.
Not crazy. Evil.