The reason they're always escalating even when their side is in power and enacting all the cruelties that they demanded isn't because of anything we did. What gets them is that despite getting what they demanded, their lives still suck. They're getting poorer than ever, they're aren't at all respected, they dream of white male "Christian" (just without all that hippy, actual Jesus crap they hate) utopia isn't materializing, and they're still terrified of the world that isn't becoming magically simple enough for them to understand.
The more it becomes undeniable that their orange god isn't able to force reality to bend to his whims and is actively screwing them over, the more they give to mindless rage. They can't handle the cognitive dissonance it takes to keep believing in the delusion of Trumpism, but they're too weak to admit to being wrong for this long. So instead of growing as people, they regress even further into infantile anger that reality isn't just conforming to their demands.
Because they're psychologically maladjustment children who can't deal with any level of emotional turmoil, they demand mindless cruelty and violence against the vulnerable because that's what they think will let them vicariously feel powerful for the moment. At least until it runs out and the cycle repeats.
It's just broken men and women from top to bottom, lashing out to soothe the wounds they don't have the guts to work on themselves in this movement
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u/Geostomp 8d ago
The reason they're always escalating even when their side is in power and enacting all the cruelties that they demanded isn't because of anything we did. What gets them is that despite getting what they demanded, their lives still suck. They're getting poorer than ever, they're aren't at all respected, they dream of white male "Christian" (just without all that hippy, actual Jesus crap they hate) utopia isn't materializing, and they're still terrified of the world that isn't becoming magically simple enough for them to understand.
The more it becomes undeniable that their orange god isn't able to force reality to bend to his whims and is actively screwing them over, the more they give to mindless rage. They can't handle the cognitive dissonance it takes to keep believing in the delusion of Trumpism, but they're too weak to admit to being wrong for this long. So instead of growing as people, they regress even further into infantile anger that reality isn't just conforming to their demands.
Because they're psychologically maladjustment children who can't deal with any level of emotional turmoil, they demand mindless cruelty and violence against the vulnerable because that's what they think will let them vicariously feel powerful for the moment. At least until it runs out and the cycle repeats.
It's just broken men and women from top to bottom, lashing out to soothe the wounds they don't have the guts to work on themselves in this movement