And that’s not even getting as far as the institutions (conservative church, gun lobbies, warmongering corporate citizens in need of good patriotic cannon fodder) that help reinforce all that mess. Some days I think we’d almost need to just let them blow the world up so we could start over.

In order to not be scared, they need to know and confront their fear, and where it really comes from, to understand it and to grow from it. Hatred, after all, is pretty much fear wearing armor and toting firepower.

I have often considered the Hypocritical Conservative Prosperity Gospel sects to be the Church of Judas, especially considering that whole thirty pieces of silver thing. And also wished they would eventually hang themselves on their own entanglements.

The problem is that this fearfulness is built into the very nature of child-rearing for authoritarian types. You’ll hear about fear and respect (of god, one’s parents, etc.) as synonyms in these environments. It’s self-replicating programming and does not need to correspond to any reality but that which is…

I work at a place chock full of right wing yoyos. The first week of the “better paychecks” they were just crowing about how it was because of the “GOP tax plan” but I told my supervisor just watch, it’ll come back somehow.

Huh-uh. It would be all too comforting to think that the right-wing uberconservative madness will die out with the baby boomers, but I work among Trumphumpers and they ARE passing their nastiness on to the next generation. I keep meeting women in their twenties who will all too happily announce that they didn’t vote…

I don’t think it matters what you call it because the bottom line is this: no one has more actual, detrimental entitlement habits than they do, and they will find a way to project their own worst traits onto anybody but themselves, no matter what the names. See also, “no, you’re the puppet.”

An android, I would think, would be capable of more logic.

This kid is my own personal Santa Claus.

Nah. They can go. They have a nice high tower and everything!

We’re gonna have to keep the kid away from windows for a while.

Jeebus Effing Christ. Thank you for this share. God, they really hate people who make them feel dumb by actually bothering to know shit, don’t they?

They read each other’s Facebook pages and that’s about it.

Oh, FFS. STOP EMBARRASSING ME, COUSINS.

I had a girl whine to me about how she went to a private school where her dad could barely afford it and was CLEARLY trying harder than all the spoiled rich kids who got everything handed to them, and yet she STILL voted for DJT. Logic is not a strong suit here. Go figure.

The problem isn’t the toothless greybeard wonders out there with their crappy posters and lackwit slogans. The problem is the ones we live among and work with every day, who seem just fine until they casually toss off “[insert trite thing] lives matter” jokes and tell you they don’t believe in “special treatment” for…

One of these two. I don’t even care which.

Clearly, the glaring point here is that a rich man has no perspective.

Pfft. Not at all. Hell, I work with a woman who wouldn’t escalate a habitual harasser at a smallish company to the EEOC, after they did nothing, because she believed it would tear the company apart and she thought she would ruin things for everybody who worked there. Guy wasn’t related to the owners, didn’t have…

Wow. She seems so nervous saying that, like she really wants to say more. Yikes.