Posted on 02/05/2021 8:53:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Since the January 6th riot at the Capitol, the talking heads in the media, political elites, and other progressive activists have been opining on the need to deprogram Trump supporters as they attempt to paint us all as craven conspiracy theorists with the potential for violence. You see this in their obsession with Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.), a freshman member with no real political power. Yet, they take her past comments and extrapolate her insane assertions to half the population. Yes, dear readers, if you liked the foreign policy or domestic policy implemented by the Trump administration better than what Joe Biden offered, you are now seen as a member of a cult.
It is as if the radical left and the rest of the intelligentsia are determined to play the role of a parent running in to save you from yourself and the charismatic, diabolical leader you who has enthralled you. Really, you just think energy independence is preferable to the Green New Deal. Don’t you dare criticize the 1619 Project or critical race theory, bigot. Perhaps you just believed in Martin Luther King’s vision of a colorblind society and are bewildered that segregation by race seems to be coming back in an inverted form. Still, our progressive betters are determined to save you from yourself.
Surveys show that strong liberals feel the most empowered to say what they believe. A Cato Institute survey this summer noted:
Strong liberals stand out, however, as the only political group who feel they can express themselves. Nearly 6 in 10 (58%) of staunch liberals feel they can say what they believe. However, centrist liberals feel differently. A slim majority (52%) of liberals feel they have to self‐censor, as do 64% of moderates, and 77% of conservatives.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Progressive Activists have strong ideological views, high levels of engagement with political issues, and the highest levels of education and socioeconomic status. Their own circumstances are secure. They feel safer than any group, which perhaps frees them to devote more attention to larger issues of social justice in their society. They have an outsized role in public debates, even though they comprise a small portion of the total population, about one in 12 Americans. They are highly sensitive to issues of fairness and equity in society, particularly regarding race, gender, and other minority group identities. Their emphasis on unjust power structures leads them to be very pessimistic about fairness in America. They are uncomfortable with nationalism and ambivalent about America’s role in the world.
Well educated and financially secure, progressive activists feel entitled to direct our society. They are also likely to hold positions of power in government, the media, and academia, which explains the volume of their megaphone. Progressive activists are also 11 percent more likely (80%) than the other six groups to be white (69%). This fact is the height of irony in our current political climate.
"reprograming" isn't possible.
You can reprogram and defective system
I have a 5.56 reprogramming tool.
Americans can now be divided into two groups: believers in the leftwad pseudo-reality, and normal people. As this article notes,
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3920426/posts
it is very difficult to deprogram a disciple of a pseudo-reality. I wouldn’t even care to try. The kindest thing I would be willing to do with those people is to exile them.
I wonder what these fevered Democrat minds have dug up from Stalin’s grave? Will they purge anyone that voted for Trump or even criticizes the collapse of the rule of law precipitated by the octogenarian corpses like Pelousy and Asterisk, and don’t forget Shumer and Leahy?
Should the near dead have such a dominating position in American politics? Grave events are in the offing, if they are foolish enough to pursue Stalin’s recipe of political violence and genocide. They sure talk like it. They need to realize that their crimes will not be forgotten.
“even though they comprise a small portion of the total population, about one in 12 Americans.”
And yet their claims to represent “half” the population are widely believed.
I never see anyone else taking on that lie. Those claims must be refuted and replaced with the truth. One in 12 sounds about right.
While not violent, the [Gamestop] pushback did cause significant financial damage, even for some of those who were trying to raise the stock price. That is a level of nihilism, people willing to harm themselves to make a point that no one should want to encourage.
Not nihilism at all. It's a sacrifice they were willing to make in order to send the message, and that message got sent loud and clear. That is precisely the sort of penalty I was talking about, and if that doesn't work violence is likely to be the only remaining step.
The State of Illinois is passing a law that all school children in the state must be educated to be “Progressives” (Democrats)
That’s the truth, look it up.
MAY?
Without a doubt.
Progressivism is nothing more then the first face step to Socialism/Communism.
Anyone who believed and spread the Russian Hoax needs deprogramming and in some cases prosecution.
No one needs ‘re-programming’... That’s a heavy commie thug tactic.
STOP calling them “Progressives”!!!!! They are Marxist and or Communists!!!!!
exactly...
it appears the author of this article needs reprogramming...
RE: STOP calling them “Progressives”!!!!!
I prefer Regressives. They’re repeating the mistakes of history all over again.
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