Wingnuts, Rage, and Guns

found online by Raymond

 
From Infidel753:

The Trumpanzees are angry people. Depending on the individual, they’re angry about blacks and women who no longer “know their place”; at education and expertise, which they themselves do not have; at social changes like secularism and the growing acceptance of gay equality; at any manifestation of foreign culture or language or ideas, which remind them that the world out there is much bigger and more complicated than they can mentally process; at technological change which renders old ways of making a living irrelevant while the internet turns younger people away from old prejudices and certainties. Despite the power held by Trump and other Republicans in their name, they feel put-upon and disrespected. And because so many of them have guns, their anger often stirs fear.

Indeed, fantasies of some future explosion of violence in which they will emerge triumphant are very common on wingnut blogs and discussion sites. From decades-old dreams of a “day of the rope” when enemies (such as Jews, government officials, and “race-mixers”) would be hanged en masse, to present-day rumblings of a second civil war which their overwhelming superiority in guns would turn into an easy slaughter of “libtards” and other broad categories of people they loathe, they picture themselves as the massively stronger side of America’s national divide, awaiting only one more provocation to burst their restraints and annihilate us in a hailstorm of cleansing ammo. Such fantasies are actively encouraged by the worst of the Republican leadership, including you-know-who.

Don’t be fooled. And don’t be scared.

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