enigma2meagain:twistedchickness:wilwheaton:(via qFhkV5f.jpg (1080×1218))I look at this and I
enigma2meagain:twistedchickness:wilwheaton:(via qFhkV5f.jpg (1080×1218)) I look at this and I have to ask: what are all these white Republicans so afraid of? Why do they think stopping mass murderers is a critique of *them*?What do they have to lose if they support their constituents of all colors and backgrounds by taking steps to keep them from being murdered?Is someone threatening them? Is someone telling them, “If you don’t vote with us on this, you will lose [something]?” What could they possibly not stand to lose that is bigger than saving people’s lives?They haven’t always been in office. They’ve had lived outside of it. None of them have ever gone without a meal, or without a roof over their heads. None of them have ever scrambled to find a job. But if they lost their seats now, they’d still have more wealth than I will ever see. They do not have to worry for the rest of their lives.So I wonder: what did it take to convince them that taking power from incels with guns was taking power from *them*? What argument convinced them that *they*, the most powerful people in the country, were the victims here? And how can the rest of us show them they are not the victims?Please, don’t just point to the former guy on this, or the Kentucky tortoise. They’re in it, but they cannot be the only reasons. There’s more here that we are not seeing, perhaps partly ideology, definitely a separation of themselves from constituents as human beings. But there’s something I can’t put a finger on, also. Every Senator on the red side of the Senate has to make their own choices. Every one has learned, at some point, about the history of past choices made, and the responsibilities they have. And I have to say this: elected officials who do not act to protect the wellbeing and lives of not only the people in their states but all the people in the country do not deserve to be in those wooden seats in the Senate. If they do not work for everyone’s benefit, they degrade the dignity of the Senate, and they should not be there. You’re looking at their mentality very differently from how they look at us.Conservative/fascist/right wing mindsets are HEAVILY oriented towards hierarchy. That everything works only where everyone in the world has a specific station in life, and that people who disrupts that hierarchy must be punished, that those who are lesser must only be there because they have done something to deserve that position.This fundamentally clashes with the idea of people being equal or not being lesser, and also ignores the reality of how often systems and institutions can be slanted in favor of some more than others. But because the in-group (in this case, conservatives) are the benefactors of this slanted system, they naturally will do everything in their power to preserve that system, even if a better one is found or made.But you might think: But why?The other factor in their thought process is domination. The right wingers have a very “winner take all” mentality, one that is built on the notion that the only reason why they have anything is only because they never allow anything ELSE to take it’s place. You see, there is no room for other ideologies or other people in their world, except only on THEIR terms, on their ideologies, and even then only so long as THEY remain on top.The thing is? They got to where they are by theft. By stealing this nation from those who came before them (indigenous people). They built their society on the backs of Africans, Asians, Hispanics, and numerous other minorities who they will never see as equals, because to them their world is theirs and theirs alone, and everyone else is only allowed to be a part of their playground on THEIR terms. They have lied, cheated, and backstabbed the natives and the minorities for centuries to keep their ill gotten power, always justifying it and able to remain complacent for so long as they have the reins of absolute power. So long as they were the only people who mattered, they could give small concessions as a self-deluding sign of their “generosity and magnanimity”.But that’s been changing more and more as the years go on, as their atrocities are made clearer and the world they live in is becoming less and less tolerant of their cruelty. It’s only become more and more evident how much of a sham their hierarchy really is, how much of it is built on arbitrary justifications and enabling of cruelty and malice towards arbitrarily labelled “lesser” groups, how much of it is built on keeping the most vile and selfish people in power while they leech off of us.They know it, and are TERRIFIED because of it.You can’t steal and backstab forever without making many enemies, and you can only cling onto power for so long before other people start coming for your throat. They’ve dug their own grave, and are desperate to do anything to keep themselves from meeting the deserved karma for centuries of oppression and brutality, that they’ve so willingly enabled and engaged in. They kept doing it for so long because they thought that they would never have to pay for their crimes, and are terrified of the consequences, regardless how small it may be.…At least, that’s what they think.The reality is that this is another factor of their fucked up way of thinking. They believe that we want revenge on them, because that’s what THEY do.They believe that we want to pay them back for the atrocities that they do, because that’s what they’ve always done.They believe that we’re just as cutthroat as they are, because that’s what their society is built on, underneath all the faux piety and faux-Christianity.To them, all ideologies are just differently flavored versions of domination and fascism, because that’s what THEIR ideology basically is: Christo-Fascism.So of course they’re scared of us.They don’t see another group of people trying to build a better world for all of us. They just see a new group of conquerors trying to oust them from their ill-gained position of power. They only see people trying to take the entire pie they stole and told everyone else that was the only one around, rather than people trying to make more pies for everyone.And that in itself is also self-inflicted, because we wouldn’t be coming for their throats if they hadn’t shown time and time again that they will never willingly concede power and would rather we all be slaves and tortured for merely daring to say “we exist and deserve better”. We would never be coming after them if they didn’t keep stealing and taking from us, even as we tried to make more with the tools we did have.They brought this entirely on themselves. -- source link