General Discussion

Hi Max. I am much like you, checking all the boxes.

I guess I am a member of the "manosphere". I am your typical “angry middle class white male” voter. In my 7TH decade in this country, retired military, not many bills, social security, Medicare

I am a veteran, not retired, white male, straight, European descent, brought up Christian, you name it.

And I differ from the magats in that I have not substituted my balls for my brain in life.

This:



The republicons have always been for the rich. My uncle used to curse FDR with every breath.

But with the "Southern Strategy" they latched onto racism as their vehicle and have used hate, resentment and projection to fool people into voting against their own best interests. Propaganda wars straight from the fascist playbook. Literally.

BY CONTRAST: Anger, in the form if righteous indignation, is a positive force.

Cracking the hypnotic spell of 24 by 7 by 365 propaganda is like prying people from a cult.
Long story short, people usually have to hit rock bottom, like addicts, before changing, because it's always easier to blame than to become aware.

I have argued in these forums that it will take some brave individuals to stand up to the Hitler wannabes until the obvious becomes obvious: that people are being used and abused, when a light shines through the fog of induced hate and resentment.

The "old brain", the "fight or flight" limbic system overrides the thinking brain, but the culture as lived is a pack of manipulative lies.

It's very obvious in the stock market, as in casinos, that people are led to play a losing game. Racism is taught. Resentment is taught. Misogyny and xenophobia are taught. These are the self-defeating stories and myths that blind people to the plain truth:



In fact, the golden rule: treat others as we would want to be treated, makes for a good and prosperous society,and is the highest religious teaching, but we live by other aspirations and beliefs. I continue to advacate and hopefully, exemplify a higher path.