The Perfection of Projection

I never saw or understood it until I ran into a hard case. Then it blew my mind. And I began to see it everywhere including in myself. Now I'm in the middle. Like racism, the problem is that it's normal. Normal to trust the familiar and those who are like you. And to be suspicious of the unfamiliar. The true sign of racism, which I define broadly as treating anyone according to anything other than standards of behavior, is when familiarity doesn't result in fairness. In allowing people the benefit of the doubt.

Projection results from denial. Not owning stuff. Thinking you're better than or above that, like being human and flawed. So racism, with its irrationality, identification, and tribal, emotional components is prime material for projection. Both projecting racism and projecting within a racist framework. Projecting onto people you irrationally hate or fear. Those who are less at odds with themselves and so less prone to projection have trouble seeing it in others because they project their relative innocence onto them. 

So there's that, which has frustrated the hell out of the Democrats who have seen for decades how insane Republicans are but can't get the party, as a whole, to react appropriately to the threat. Too late now. But I think it's still important to understand the perfection of the mechanism. The 1:1 correlation when the right-wing nutcases get fixated on something and it becomes a 'talking point' becase they're doing it. And because it's unconscious it's guileless. All this shit they're putting onto Democrats is true of them.

And that means we're fucked. To an unknown degree and for an unknown duration. The thing is operating now beyond the reach of those who created it for their selfish ends. So the 'libertarian' Koch monster, a franken-philosophy, has escaped from their think tanks and is loose. They fear it themselves, so more than ever they're directing the beast at Democrats though they are the ones who screwed the people who've been duped into being libertarian predator drones and serving the interests of the rich. 

This is not a drill. This is not a game. This is not a test. We're in a fight of good against evil. When they say Democrats are traitors and have no standards and are irresponsible and hate America and want to destroy it they're describing themselves. Everything they say about Democrats is true of them. They're telling us who they are. And they're absolutely fine with getting millions of people killed so rich fuckers can have more money. The religious fanatics love the idea. Of an apocalypse. It's totally insane.