Paranoid mechanisms can go from being hard to see to obvious in an instant. There's a normal resistance and surprise associated with encountering monsters in our everyday lives. Part of you is saying 'surely, no, this can't be that sick.' But, once you see it, the floodgates open and all becomes clear.
Because, the explanatory power is so strong and the mechanisms so reliable. The mechanisms work with perfect accuracy because they're unconscious. For once, their cunning fails them and the failure is revelatory. Since the advent of Trump persecutory fixations have run riot.
You'll notice how Trump and the Republicans accuse Democrats of what they themselves are doing with perfect accuracy. And they're always ahead of the game because it comes from such a deep place of denial. When a theme first emerges it will reveal what they're about to do. Not what they have planned, really, because it's entirely unconscious.
Take treason. Initially, such mentions usually show up as trial balloons among hugely disseminated sources in milder forms, such as 'betrayal' instead of 'treason,' but conservative media seems to have collapsed this so the window of acceptable slander and hysterical demonization explodes.
From my seat, where I don't consume conservative media, finding it vile, Ann Coulter always was a bellwether, an appropriate term since it initially applied to sheep. She's not only a font and volcano of contempt but a reliable guide to where conservatives are heading.
I encourage you to look for a wedge issue that works for you. If treason is too strong look at the impeachment or Obamacare fixations or whatever, They are all revealing. Once you get away from conservative media to politicians and lawmakers, who are supposedly more reserved and controlled in their vitriol, Ted Cruz and a few others, especially his fellow theocratic conservatives, stand out.
They think, of course, they are serving a higher master so they provide a view into this morally contagious disease. Cruz looks like Satan. He acts like Satan but, when you have a revolution to accomplish, this is a minor point. I believe if Cruz had a moment of insight, realizing he was working for the devil, he wouldn't care because he wants to bring about the 'second coming' and theocratic conservatives are so fatalistic they assume that, whatever happens, it was God's will anyway and inevitable.
You can see how the insanity works in their favor. This is so sick in its denial of human freedom, dignity and decency it's like dropping the monster from Alien into a musical. Guts everywhere. So, as I said in the beginning, normal people will resist the awareness of how demented Cruz and Coulter and their fellow travelers are. We can't afford that. Conservatives are normalizing killing their adversaries.
Also, be warned that normal people will wonder if they are guilty of this, paranoia, themselves. That's a sign you aren't. Strongish paranoid tendencies preclude any admission of weakness, responsibility or fault. Trump is such an infantile, compulsive practitioner of denial and projection it's easy to see. These are also conservative traits, rooted in a cruel, persecutory superego, weak, or nonexistent in the case of Trump, ego formation, strong reactions of disgust, and dualistic views making them despise themselves.
They can't stand that they are imperfect, mortal and corruptible, so they project all their festering, unacknowledged feelings of inadequacy onto us. And try to put a match to it. We can't ignore it and think it will go away. It won't. Not that they don't facilitate their own destruction. They always do because they push it too far, lacking normal empathy. But millions of people might get killed as it plays out.
Nazi analogies aren't inappropriate. Exaggeration? Look at their (our, since they are controlling everything) record in the Middle East and elsewhere going back decades. Carnage that could justifiably be called genocide. Immeasurable damage and no admission of guilt. All of that hate has come home. Without conflict their lives are unstable and unlivable. So, we will have conflict. With them attacking us.
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