In fact, they're NOT thinking. They are parroting an opinion that they havent bothered to research to see if what theyre being told is true.
Without thinking, they have accepted a belief that was given to them by Media/Politician trainers. Without feedback from people they know, these beliefs can become accepted as facts that everyone knows are true.
Their belief that MAGA is Nazism 2.0 illustrates how belief can be the enemy of knowledge and understanding.
How someone deals with people holding insane beliefs that puts us all in GRAVE DANGER is up to them. Teasing, bemused chuckles and prayers that they'll soon return to sanity while NOT being swayed by their delusions typically work best for me.
Feeling fear or feeding their delusions by treating them as anything more than delusions to be pitied has only made things worse. For everyone.
I am not afraid of what they think or the names they call us.
I simply disagree that giving more meme fodder/embracing the false story because we know they’ll call us Nazis anyway helps our cause. I disagree that it helps our optics.
Now, if we are able to use the humor you mention to joke about how ridiculous everything has become to laugh some people back to the middle, I can see how that would be useful.
But that isn’t what I’ve seen making its rounds in Pennsylvania, nor on the mainstream internet, and with November coming up, it may not serve us to be continually compared to Nazis in the normie sphere.
"People think".
In fact, they're NOT thinking. They are parroting an opinion that they havent bothered to research to see if what theyre being told is true.
Without thinking, they have accepted a belief that was given to them by Media/Politician trainers. Without feedback from people they know, these beliefs can become accepted as facts that everyone knows are true.
Their belief that MAGA is Nazism 2.0 illustrates how belief can be the enemy of knowledge and understanding.
How someone deals with people holding insane beliefs that puts us all in GRAVE DANGER is up to them. Teasing, bemused chuckles and prayers that they'll soon return to sanity while NOT being swayed by their delusions typically work best for me.
Feeling fear or feeding their delusions by treating them as anything more than delusions to be pitied has only made things worse. For everyone.
I am not afraid of what they think or the names they call us.
I simply disagree that giving more meme fodder/embracing the false story because we know they’ll call us Nazis anyway helps our cause. I disagree that it helps our optics.
Now, if we are able to use the humor you mention to joke about how ridiculous everything has become to laugh some people back to the middle, I can see how that would be useful.
But that isn’t what I’ve seen making its rounds in Pennsylvania, nor on the mainstream internet, and with November coming up, it may not serve us to be continually compared to Nazis in the normie sphere.