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We mostly know how the billionaire Koch brothers spend their money – our own Scott Horsley describes it as “a hydra-headed network of think tanks, lobbying shops, and ‘astroturf’ advocacy groups to advance a philosophy that conveniently overlaps with the economic interests of their Wichita-based corporation.” But, he says, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland is more concerned with how they made their fortune. Check out his review here.
– Petra
Conservatives seem to think we have the same blind loyalty towards the Clintons that they do toward Trump.
If Bill was involved, lock his ass up too.
Seriously. A pedo is a fucking pedo. I don’t care who you are. If my brother turned out to be a pedo, I would personally fucking volunteer to drive his ass to prison. Ain’t no one - celebrity, president, or just some stranger on the street - who I would “forgive” for violating children. NO ONE.
So, all you fucking conservatives can stop throwing that noise around. I liked Clinton somewhat but I would tear the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock down with my bare hands if he was on that list.
I’ve said this to a few conservatives, and it seems to puzzle them.
But seriously, go read “The Authoritarians” by Bob Altenmeyer, which he provides for free download on his website.
It explains this sort of behavior; authoritarian followers literally do follow leaders blindly, and assume everyone else does as well. They develop their opinions by being told them by someone they decide is an authority, rather than making their own mind up about stuff.
Therefore, since their entire worldview and sense of self is wrapped up in the things they were told to believe and therefore do, they take an attack on their leader as a personal attack, and assume everyone else works the same. So in the mind of an authoritarian follower, attacking what they assume to be the leader of a group is an effort to discredit the whole group.
This is also why they keep looking for ‘leaders’ of groups of protesters and ‘leaders’ of loose associations like Antifa; because they assume that all those groups MUST be following a single person, because they cannot wrap their head around the fact that a bunch of people may all just show up and do a thing without someone masterminding it all.
It’s why attacks on people like AOC, who they call a ‘progressive leader’, are so virulent. Because authoritarian followers think that if they manage to discredit ONE person, that would destroy the whole organization.
Is that why there’s such a cult following around Trump? And why there’s a conscious, conspicuous, and ongoing attempt to minimize or deny everything he’s done? Because they see accurate reporting of the actual stuff he’s done as a direct attack on them, and either they’d never do that because it is Bad and therefore he can’t have done that because he’s their leader or even if he did it, he is the leader and therefore what he does is inherently right?
Yup.
https://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pdf
Read the book. It really explains a lot about this.
What They Can’t Do With Badges, They Do With Torches
Fascists are not the opposite of police. They are not lawless; on the contrary, the hope to intensify the violence with which laws are enforced. They count on police to protect them from the wrath of the public as they recruit new members and encourage them to carry out attacks. They hope that these attacks will give the police the excuse to clamp down further on the general population. Their aim is to normalize bigotry and violence, so there will be less outcry when the police intensify the discriminatory and violent ways that they enforce the laws.
Police are not the opposite of fascists. They harass, kidnap, incarcerate, deport, and murder more people of color, women, and queer people every year than any fascist group; they do more to advance the white supremacist agenda than any independent far-right organization. It was police who enforced the segregation laws of the Jim Crow era, police who cracked down on civil rights demonstrations, police who killed Michael Brown and Freddie Gray. Throughout history, longstanding informal relationships have frequently existed between police and white supremacist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan in many parts of the United States and other parts of the world. But these relationships are not essential for the police as an institution to continuing playing a structural role maintaining the fundamental disparities of our society.
