I think you give them more credit for rational thought and moral judgment than they deserve Spaj. What many keep making the mistake of doing is applying OUR sense of integrity, compassion, guilt, justice, reason, and plain old LOGIC to Trump's cult following, thereby assuming things that SHOULD matter and make a difference WOULD.
This is patently FALSE.
Again: TRUMP'S FOLLOWERS, ENABLERS, SUPPORTERS, APOLOGISTS, AND POLITICAL CRONIES ARE BEYOND THE NORMS of what we traditionally think of as good, evil, right, wrong, justice, injustice. To them ALL THINGS TRUMP ARE GOOD, RIGHT, AND JUST.
God Him or Herself (they'll hate the latter) can appear in the heavens and call Trump exactly WHAT HE IS. A conniving, lying, two-faced, hate spewing, racist, malicious, malevolent, manipulating, menial m----------------, and his bible thumping followers and worshippers would in turn try to spit in their OWN God's face... if they could.
I disagree. When it comes to trump supporters i'm not giving them any credit. When it comes to republicans in general...maybe a little.
That's only because republicans and conservatives work off of different rules than other human beings. One of the main things they are most afraid of. And what will ultimately effect their actions is their own isolation.
They're used to privilege. Used to not only getting things their way but used to getting more than they asked for. As the saying goes...when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
Sure, they'll fight back but they would be doing so against their very nature.
Put a republican/conservative in a room with nine other people. Have those nine other people say things the republican/conservative doesn't agree with and there's an insanely good chance said republican/conservative will agree with everyone else.
By default they are followers. They aren't the types of people to pioneer anything positive. And one of the only reasons they join in on negative things is because of majorities. If they are not in the majority or feel that they are not in the majority odds are good they'll shut the fuck up.
It's why so many of them think alphas and betas males are a thing. Why they look down on women. Why they treat the lgbtq community like shit. Why they make fun of the disabled. Men with small or smaller dicks. Why they always go after people who they know have traditionally been targeted.
Because going the other way round is difficult. It takes effort. Heart. Brain power. And what people define as strength. They have none. So they follow the crowd.
What happens when said crowd is no longer going the way they want it to? What is an illogical, horrible, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, bigotted in general, lazy, privileged, cheating, stealing, waste of human flesh to do?
Fall in line.
Don't get me wrong. Not all of them will in fact fall in line. Some, like adam lanza, timothy mcveigh, joseph lumetta, christopher paul hasson, ted nugent, cesar sayoc and so on won't fall in line. They'll in fact fight against their own nature and do something horrible.
That's the rub though. The more horrible things they do. The harder it is for the next version of them to do something horrible. The only reason a lot of things are continued to happen as they have been is because of the perception of those doing certain things has also been manipulated. So the more they react in that way the easier it is for people to figure out who is really doing the most horrible things in america.
Most of them know this. They understand because of the backlash toward video games from conservatives. The backlash to certain kinds of music from conservatives. The backlash to all sorts of things coming directly from their own.
So they know there's a fine line they have to walk between doing what they want and not letting the people they've already convinced figure out that they're doing what they want.
The more they cross that line the easier it is for even other conservatives to figure out something is inherently wrong with america. Not just in america but across the world.
Part of martin luther king jr's strategy was to do exactly that. Let them hang themselves. To dare them to. And to have as many people watching as they do it as humanly possible.
Sure. 100% in the wood racists across america would give two shits about a black person being murdered while protesting. Problem is, the world is much more complicated than that. People are much more complicated then that.
I know you've heard countless times about darryl davis. The black man who got a number of kkk members to quit being kkk members. When ignorant white person toss that up and say that other black people should follow in his footsteps we all understand what they really mean. For black people to take their own lives and put them on the line in exchange for the possibility of helping racist white people.
What they don't know is that what he's doing and has done is strategy. Maybe the first few times it was the height of life threatening after that though, what are they going to do? Kill him? And cement his legacy further into the history books? Creating yet another martin luther king jr and malcolm x?
Once things are in the light they can't really do much about it. Doing so would be in direct contradiction to their nature. They want to belong. They want to fit in. It's literally the reason white supremacists and white nationalists groups exist in the first place. Why so many of them are rejects. Why they can't think logically. And why all they have left is hatred.
Trump supporters are the exact same.
The more public things get. The more they react negatively. The more they react negatively the worse it gets for them. They know it. We know it.
Take black panther and the movie industry for instance. Before black panther and other movies more than 2/3 of america was convinced majority black movies wouldn't and couldn't make money. That was based off of thee most illogical/racists views imaginable. And it literally kept movie studios away from massive amounts of profit.
Now that the genie is out of the bottle....and that taste for people of color money has been had...we'll for sure see more and more majority black movies no matter what racists have to say about it.
And over time. People growing up in racist households...will also go to see those movies. Will also enjoy those movies. Same goes for trump supporter households when it comes to understanding the issues at hand. Same goes for conservatives in general.
I'm not saying this because i'm naive. I am but that's not why i'm saying it. I'm saying it because it's logical. It's the logical progression of people getting smarter. Sure, they are getting smarter at the slowest pace they possibily could. And people will continue to be murdered, die, raped, molested and so on but it is happening.
And so far. I'm very comfortable in saying. They're already the minorities.
