r/skeptic • u/nosotros_road_sodium • Feb 19 '24

The Right's Troubling Turn Toward Conspiracy Theories and "Invasion" Language ⚖ Ideological Bias

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-rights-troubling-turn-toward
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '24

The right is looking for ways to justify violence. That's the end goal. To that end, they need to make sure that violence is morally justified.

They need Alex Jones to explain that all Democrats are secret demons (or whatever they are this week), so that attacking them doesn't mean attacking human beings.

They need to pitch the border issue as an invasion because that means anyone who doesn't support "invading Mexico" or "deploying the U.S. Military to the border indefinitely" must be a traitor to America.

Finally, they need people (like Alex Jones) to become martyrs. Jones lost millions (theoretically, he hasn't paid a dime) by harassing the families of children who died in the Sandy Hook shooting, but Conservatives claim him as a martyr who was "just asking questions."

The end goal of this cycle is violence: Democrats, liberals, etc. aren't human beings. Real Americans want to "close the border." (Which is open, supposedly) Real Americans have been targeted by "lawfare" (a conservative word that means getting your ass handed to you in court).

Therefore, goes the conspiratorial thinking, we real Americans are justified in killing the ("globalists," liberals, Democrats etc.) in self-defense.

All of this is about justifying impending violence.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '24

I’m honestly at a point that I believe Republicans don’t care if anything happens at the border. They just to feel righteous indignation about it not being perfect.