Political Memes

"You do the thinking, Ricky! You do the thinking!"

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Yeah, that rhetorical ploy shoots themselves in the foot. Too easily drags us down into their combative one-upmanship, out of the considerate space. Too big a gap to effortlessly bridge, when the groupthink precludes consideration, just too stubbornly determined to defend the dunnykrugilous hill to die on, because it's identified with, it's them, that's a threat! Limbic system engage! Social-Dominance mode engage! Tribal survival depends on it! Panic! Throw anything at it! Cannot consider ideas outside that which will save us, our one true way, or the great peril will get us! LOL. I perhaps shouldn't laugh and mock... it comes with very dire consequences. This whole "Psychology of Totalitarianism" thing. Mass formation. Where what's obvious from outside the groupthink, is double-down denied from within it, and the desperation drives it ever deeper, to where then any and all atrocities are seen as necessary virtues... and nary a moment given to consider "are we the baddies?"