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The Next Republican boogeyman?

Might be time to bring the Muslims out of the mothballs.
Good call. I hadn't thought about them in a while.
But lately, it seems the republicans only want to prop up scares that they think they can blame on the "radical left." So maybe muslims aren't a good fit for now?
 
Republicans have been very successful rallying their ever so impressionable followers with fears that our kids are being taught to hate being white, taught to be guilty that slavery ever occurred, are being indoctrinated to be gay or turn trans, and even on public college campuses, they are being indoctrinated into liberal/socialist ideals- despite being able to choose what school they attend and what classes they take. This after being convinced the evil right somehow conspired nationwide to steal the 2020 election from their dear leader.

Just curious what others think the next boogeyman the right will invent in order to scare up the masses, and more votes.
Carnies? You know - small hands, smell like cabbage
 
Conservatives seem to be engaging in some new moral panic every 2-3 weeks. I am surprised they are exhausting themselves from all the outrage and stress. It has to be hard on a person to go through so much angst.
It’s addiction to neurochemicals. Like sex addiction or gambling addiction or risk taking addiction.

And like all addictions tolerance develops. So it takes more stimuli more often to get their buzz.

In a way trump broke a machine that took thirty years to build. Where the target demo only accepts information from one source and rejects all others.

Trump grabbed that perfect machine for the amassing of power in a democracy by the ***** and humped it like a flag.

So it’s all brute force and volume now. And getting more outrageous Every day to keep those chemicals flowing.

I keep hoping they’ll reach the “gag point”, an industry term where your target demo realizes you’re playing them and turns on you. But the ego angle is keeping them on the reservation.

That’s an angle they learned from studying con men. Human beings do not like admitting to themselves that they have been had. Doing so causes an existential crisis. If they were fooled once, how do they know they won’t be again?

Much easier to simply believe they weren’t fooled. Which is why con men can hit the same mark more than once. They’d rather believe the new story than admit to themselves they fell for the first one.

Couple that with the sense of superiority and patriotism their narratives are built with and we get 1/6. Where folks assaulted our democratic process with genuine patriotism in their hearts.

And that right there should send a chill down anyone’s spine.
 
Furries will be the next Moral Panic.

It will be recognized that Disney's animated "Robin Hood" confused a couple of generations of children into emulating anthropomorphic animals and the company will be forced to dissolve.
 
Furries will be the next Moral Panic.

It will be recognized that Disney's animated "Robin Hood" confused a couple of generations of children into emulating anthropomorphic animals and the company will be forced to dissolve.
That was the only Disney film up to that point that had a PG rating…
 
It’s addiction to neurochemicals. Like sex addiction or gambling addiction or risk taking addiction.

And like all addictions tolerance develops. So it takes more stimuli more often to get their buzz.

In a way trump broke a machine that took thirty years to build. Where the target demo only accepts information from one source and rejects all others.

Trump grabbed that perfect machine for the amassing of power in a democracy by the ***** and humped it like a flag.

So it’s all brute force and volume now. And getting more outrageous Every day to keep those chemicals flowing.

I keep hoping they’ll reach the “gag point”, an industry term where your target demo realizes you’re playing them and turns on you. But the ego angle is keeping them on the reservation.

That’s an angle they learned from studying con men. Human beings do not like admitting to themselves that they have been had. Doing so causes an existential crisis. If they were fooled once, how do they know they won’t be again?

Much easier to simply believe they weren’t fooled. Which is why con men can hit the same mark more than once. They’d rather believe the new story than admit to themselves they fell for the first one.

Couple that with the sense of superiority and patriotism their narratives are built with and we get 1/6. Where folks assaulted our democratic process with genuine patriotism in their hearts.

And that right there should send a chill down anyone’s spine.
The frequency should be considered. Right now it’s something new every couple of weeks. Back in the 80s they could sustain themselves off of things like parental advisory labels on cassette tapes.
 
The frequency should be considered. Right now it’s something new every couple of weeks. Back in the 80s they could sustain themselves off of things like parental advisory labels on cassette tapes.
The narratives will come faster and be more outrageous. Gotta keep the base fired up.
 
Well, I heard from a reliable source that My little Pony is teaching kids beastiality.
 
Republicans have been very successful rallying their ever so impressionable followers with fears that our kids are being taught to hate being white, taught to be guilty that slavery ever occurred, are being indoctrinated to be gay or turn trans, and even on public college campuses, they are being indoctrinated into liberal/socialist ideals- despite being able to choose what school they attend and what classes they take. This after being convinced the evil right somehow conspired nationwide to steal the 2020 election from their dear leader.

Just curious what others think the next boogeyman the right will invent in order to scare up the masses, and more votes.

Whatever it is, they'll fall for it. Is there anything they won't fall for? And nowadays, these fires are started by some rando twitter account.

When your brain has been turned to mush, everything seems legit.
 
The Republican Party just needs to pick any culture issue.

It doesn’t take much to create selective outrage…
 
Does it really matter? Conservatives sometimes win short term wars, like stopping women from voting, stopping blacks from voting, slavery, gay rights, etc) And then the grand kids and the great grand kids come along and reverse all the bullshit that they did. They get erased from our US history.
 
Social Emotional Learning is in the running to be the next bugaboo

Good catch. I think that's the winner.

As an aside, being fairly liberal on social issues my entire life, it has been an eye opener to be learning how many indoctrination programs I have been tacitly supporting without even knowing it.

I will give present day conservatives credit. When they want to drive home their social agenda, they are not so shy about it.
 
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