I’m certain you seen stories similar to this, a single family half MAGA, half not. Two kids, a son (Chad) and a daughter (Haley) who are essentially progressives living in LA and New York(?) while their parents in Oklahoma are both hard-core full-on MAGA Cultists. It’s a very sad story.
This particular family makes regular videos where the children and parents discuss current events. Typically, the son presents and argument and asks his parents what they think. For example, in this video they show Mom video of ICE attacking, assaulting and detaining U.S. Citizens.
Most often, the answers he receives are completely bonkers. The mom simply denies what she’s seeing with her own eyes. She disputes the clear evidence shown in video and argues that it’s not possible. It couldn’t happen. ICE wouldn’t do that to a Citizen; there must be “some other reason”. Something else is happening. Something we can’t see. Something we don’t know about. There’s a SECRET TRUTH that we aren’t aware of.
In the video embedded above Chad asks both his parents what they think about the President using his power to turn the military against U.S. Citizens. The mom again excuses it again claiming “There would have to be a reason we don't know” but the father goes even further. He says such a thing would never happen to him in Oklahoma, but it would be just fine in California. He accuses his son of being “A Communist” — which Chad denies — and then he argues that “Communists Deserve to Die” and he would be just fine if Trump did order their extrajudicial murder with U.S. Troops.
He would even approve this type of murderous fascism being used against his own son. Because they “deserve it.”
Why the unreasoned hate for communism? Because its concepts are the greatest threat to the robber-baron oligarchs — the Mercers, the Wilks, the Adelsons, the Mudochs, the Kochs, the Ellisons, the Zuckerbergs, the Leos, the Bezos, the Musks — who fund and control the right-wing (and sometimes left) media. They use bread and circuses, cultural scandals to foment self-righteous outrage, but what they really want is massive deregulation, government dysfunction and tax cuts so they can make their fortunes immensely larger while ignoring the struggles and exploitation of the common man.
And of course, they have massive hate for George Soros and Bill Gates precisely because they *do* care about the lives of regular people. Can’t have that.
This is what we’re up against in this nation.
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