“Innocence is suspicious and often proof of guilt.”
This is the fascist mentality. The Mittbot might well have said this and it’s the whole mindset behind the GOP obsession with non issues and phony scandals such as Whitewater, Vince Foster, and Benghazi.
They pour fear and hate into a void to create paranoia.
Accuse your opponent of something you are sure never happened. When they declare innocence and lack of evidence, accuse them of cover-up.
Continue to reinterpret every detail endlessly and separately, asking leading and obscure questions with an air of significance.
Respond to every new spin as if it is a breakthrough, a dire and important revelation. Overstate as much as possible. A good example is the GOP characterization of the Benghazi incident as “the scandal of the century and possibly the worst ever in the history of the United States of America.”
Seriously, this has been said, among many other crazy things.
Keep this up endlessly and revise and revanch history, documents, and all media references. Write books and plant articles to create false sources to cite. Set up bogus experts in these made-up facts.
Ride it hard. Always pretend you are on the verge of a tremendous bombshell. Breathlessness counts. Try to break into regular media entertainment with big-sounding claims and dire accusations.
Form committees to “study” the “evidence” you’re making up.
Repeat this process endlessly until your target is destroyed. Remember to refer to your imaginary claims as historically demonstrated facts. Do this long enough and enough of the public will remember hearing something about that. Where there is smoke there must be fire, is the view to promote. Keep blowing smoke.
This is what the GOP, the Gang Of Psychopaths, are doing. Ever do.
Why the Democrats do not do it back is an unanswerable question unless one takes the view that there are fundamental differences. Clinical studies indicate there are two basic and opposing mindsets at work, two types of people, thus two types of politicians and politics. One is predatory and psychopathic. The other is cooperative and altruistic.
Wolves and sheep, as Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson called them.
We have let the psychopaths run rampant. They have overrun human beings in our current unfettered capitalist debacle. Psychopathic corporate fascism has created a theocratic oligarchy from what was once the prime examplar of democratic republic ideals in history.
Some lament the polarized politics of our time but consider: How can one tolerate criminals and monsters preying upon us once they are revealed?
A refusal to tolerate as a society unregulated capitalism, psychopaths, (easily identified by the 44-point litmus test and clinically well-understood), having any access to any power over anyone, and the corporate mentality of profit über alles leading to unconscionable pollution and destruction of nature would go far toward regaining for us all the benefits of a democratic republic with a solid middle class and a booming economy. It would also give us a fighting chance to survive the climate change now underway due to pollution-induced global warming and its many dire ramifications.
Stopping the right wing propaganda would be a good way to start. No more false equivalence, no more corporation personhood, and no more big money suborning every public official in great part by owning the media.
This is not simple and it is not easy. It may not even be possible. It is simply and possibly the only chance humanity has left, however, and not to try to counter the vile lies and blanket corruption would be suicidal apathy.
Wake up, get up, and bring the psychopathic corporate fascists down now.
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