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Most of it was just the fear talking. As for the ones that actually did, I have a hunch that a lot of it was probably more due to the fact that they thought life would be more pleasant there without the batshit crazy right fucking things up all the time. But I could be wrong.
I have all kinds of theories as to why the right is as insane as they are, but in a nutshell they're simply very fearful, very ignorant people. A liberal, realizing that America has been taken over by fascists, is actually calm enough and rational enough in their thought processes to realize that there still may be other alternatives than resorting to violence. Moving to Canada, for example. Waging opposition through protest and civil disobedience as opposed to armed rebellion for another example.
A conservative, well, to be blunt about it, operates more like an animal functioning on instinct. It feels attacked, so it lashes out. If the conservatives were dogs, (I mean real canines) then right now they're in that growling phase, They see the enemy (the fact that it's more imagined than real is a whole different discussion), and they're baring their teeth. Liberals, more capable of complex and analytical thought, would take a look at the perceived threat, and quite possibly come up with another way of dealing with it than resorting to basic primal instinct.
As scary as all this lunatic talk is from the right is, never forget one very positive thing about it though. They wouldn't be acting this way if they didn't really feel threatened. They know that they are in danger of becoming extinct as a movement. Or to be more accurate, they know that they are in danger of losing any chance they might ever have of having real political power again. They'll be doomed to walk the Earth like the Neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, organizations that are today shadows of what they once were. All this crazy talk you're hearing from them are their death screams.
I once heard someone say that people have a tendency to die the way they've lived. The right wing has lived violently, arrogantly, selfishly, and obnoxiously. As a movement, they will likely die the same way.
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