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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe right-wing personality - It's like an alien takeover.
A couple of times this week I happened to be in the right place to observe the moment that suspect right-wingers got in their car to drive on to whatever destination they were going to next. Seconds after they turned the ignition key, the sound of a drone voice from right-wing radio polluted the clean air outside. Seriously, someone should analyze what listening to right-wing radio does to the brain.
Do these people ever listen to music? I wondered if maybe we had a radio station that played their kind of music, would it allow them to access the unused parts of their brain that would help them consider information that they continue to ignore? Because, listening to the same discontent, over and over again, must lead to poor reasoning skills, as well as develop a complete lack of empathy for the people around them. This is what it must be like to be indoctrinated into a cult.
Seriously, living among them I can tell you that they are not only on the wrong side of history, but they are on the wrong side of the law. Consistent with what you would expect from an alien invasion (Think "Them" , they have taken over positions of leadership which provides them a platform to infect others, but also makes them legally vulnerable.
Here is their weakness: Because they continue to make decisions based on group think, they continue to put themselves in legally precarious positions. Seriously, if progressives wanted to take back our country, they should start locally, in our communities. The crazies, who are entrenched in the GOP, have been using their convoluted thinking in our residential communities for decades. Just as you would expect, they take over our boards and network with Republican based government establishments that follow the small government format. That kind of model puts aside the city's due diligence requirements in favor of fact-finding missions through social networking. As you can expect, a lot goes wrong because small government is not concerned about being legally just or fair.
The end result, it's almost as if we're target practice for them as they test the waters to see how far they can bully and bluff their way to get a hold of resources and agendas.
So, if you can just give them a lesson on the consequences of ignoring due diligence, you will give them a reason to start thinking about fiduciary responsibilities that they have long ago dispensed with.
If any lawyers are out there who want to take this strategy seriously, just remember, start your own circle of trusted co-workers. Things are as bad as they are today because the usual organizations that we once could count on to fight these injustices, are now part of the usual suspects.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)like a mental zombie invasion eating the brains of people via never ending RW hate propaganda. It's dangerous to the survival of a democracy. And, it's cleverly crafted, it's not like it's just a few loose cannons, it's being very cleverly orchestrated across various communication mediums and venues. IMO it's far more dangerous than terrorists threats.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)that it is entrenched in every organization in our society. The kind of scrutiny that we're giving police departments, should also be given to every private organization or public agency that has given its support to programs which have resulted in inequities in our society.
Each time inequities are allowed to stand in our communities, it plants a "zombie" idea into the heads of those who are enriched by the backdoor arrangements. They believe that skirting the law is normal.
That is what we're fighting against. They want it their way all the time.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)on right wing radio. I wish we would do something about the media monopolies, but the democrats have rationalized that the internet makes up everything.
Also the music industry is hostile to older musicians that might appeal to older people. I don't blame them for tuning out. Older musicians are discouraged from producing new records. Their output isn't marketed at all. it's hard to be stimulated by someone who only speaks to teen problems, or oldies from 25 years ago that you have heard many times before.