As much as I’ll happily rag on the prequels, I think a lot about a line from the Phantom Menace, as said by Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.”
It’s crazy how easily manipulated they are. I think that must be why Republican politicians are so goddamned detestable, you have to be a POS to be taking advantage of people like that in the first place. They know they’re going after less-educated people, taking advantage of their fears, and soaking up whatever money or power they have to give. Just constantly throwing out these new threats for people to be afraid of to distract them from the fact that they’re robbing them blind and directly working against their own base’s interests. Like, as long as you don’t mind lying to people on a regular basis, have at least some small amount of charisma and don’t feel bad attacking some other minority group, you can probably do ok in the Republican party, regardless of whatever you’ve done in the past.
no, this is not a genetic issue. this is psychological warfare. this entire block of humans is being controlled by a bunch of rich fucks who could not care less about them.
It’s not how they were born, it’s how they have used their brain since then. There is a reason the brain is commonly referred to as a muscle. Whatever parts you use are the parts that get more connections and tissue density as well as overall size due to pushing against the less dense areas beside them. So the oversized amygdala is because it is being used more often, not how they were born.
They are very good at being scared because it’s the part of the brain they work out the most. So it comes so easy to them, almost all pathways lead there eventually. If you only ever work out your arms, you’re gonna naturally gravitate to activities that exclusively use your arms, as they will be so much relatively easier to you compared to other physical activities.
It’s also why doing a wide variety of puzzles and other cognitive challenges as often as possible promotes overall brain health. Don’t skip primary motor cortex day.
Whether it’s drag shows, lesbian sex tapes, or whatever example you want to use, the Republicans don’t personally have a problem with any of them.
What they DO have, is the knowledge that if you give uneducated people someone to hate/fear and then say that YOU are the one who can save them from it while implicitly giving them permission to hate, you’ll get votes.
It’s not about what they personally believe. Never has been. It’s what their voters are afraid of.
Why are Republicans in general so damned afraid of everything?
fear is how they control their base. its not logic, which is why we cant argue with them.
As much as I’ll happily rag on the prequels, I think a lot about a line from the Phantom Menace, as said by Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.”
The base is what I was talking about.
they are afraid because they were told to be afraid. lies are repeated every 30 seconds on fox news to achieve this fear.
why do people allow this to happen to them? lack of critical thinking skills and social isolation.
Exactly. So much could be solved with just a basic highschool critical thinking course.
But the GOP have their voters so brainwashed, that they’d just pull their kids out of school and “home school” if they even tried to institute one.
It’s crazy how easily manipulated they are. I think that must be why Republican politicians are so goddamned detestable, you have to be a POS to be taking advantage of people like that in the first place. They know they’re going after less-educated people, taking advantage of their fears, and soaking up whatever money or power they have to give. Just constantly throwing out these new threats for people to be afraid of to distract them from the fact that they’re robbing them blind and directly working against their own base’s interests. Like, as long as you don’t mind lying to people on a regular basis, have at least some small amount of charisma and don’t feel bad attacking some other minority group, you can probably do ok in the Republican party, regardless of whatever you’ve done in the past.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793824/
They’re literally, physiologically hypersensitive to fear.
The people spouting eugenics and race theory are literally the ones who are genetically inferior themselves. Curious.
no, this is not a genetic issue. this is psychological warfare. this entire block of humans is being controlled by a bunch of rich fucks who could not care less about them.
It’s not how they were born, it’s how they have used their brain since then. There is a reason the brain is commonly referred to as a muscle. Whatever parts you use are the parts that get more connections and tissue density as well as overall size due to pushing against the less dense areas beside them. So the oversized amygdala is because it is being used more often, not how they were born.
They are very good at being scared because it’s the part of the brain they work out the most. So it comes so easy to them, almost all pathways lead there eventually. If you only ever work out your arms, you’re gonna naturally gravitate to activities that exclusively use your arms, as they will be so much relatively easier to you compared to other physical activities.
It’s also why doing a wide variety of puzzles and other cognitive challenges as often as possible promotes overall brain health. Don’t skip primary motor cortex day.
By definition.
If conservatives in general weren’t so damned afraid of everything, they wouldn’t be conservatives in the first place.
They’re not. At least not “truthfully”.
Whether it’s drag shows, lesbian sex tapes, or whatever example you want to use, the Republicans don’t personally have a problem with any of them.
What they DO have, is the knowledge that if you give uneducated people someone to hate/fear and then say that YOU are the one who can save them from it while implicitly giving them permission to hate, you’ll get votes.
It’s not about what they personally believe. Never has been. It’s what their voters are afraid of.