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      They’re afraid and ignorant. They feel like society is circling the drain, and they think an authoritarian is the solution.

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        Ironically, society is circling the drain because US capitalism is an authoritarianly structured system.

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          That ignores people’s very real anxiety over wage stagnation, inflation on food and housing, and a health care system that is functionally broken. Normally we would just start a war somewhere and direct that energy towards brown people halfway around the world. With no war, it’s being directed at ‘others’ domestically.

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              The culture wars are an outward expression of the anxiety and fear they live with because their economic destiny has been derailed and the value of their labor has been stolen from them. They’re lashing out because they’re unhappy and they’re unhappy because they’ve been screwed. They’re just too indoctrinated to see that we have all been screwed together.

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                At the end of the day, though, they don’t mind getting screwed as long as they can see that people they hate are getting screwed too.

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      Some of them really just want to own the libs. A trump dictatorship? Totally owns the libs. Mention the possibility of an Obama dictatorship in response? They’ll freak out and start blabbing about our sacred democracy. They have no consistent beliefs.

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        They want to be on top. That’s their belief. Don’t try to make sense of anything, because most of their complaints are just “waaahh! I want this smelly old fatass to be president!” That’s it.