"What they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities, operations, and we're going to actually go after them and prosecute"
there’s also an element of sunk cost fallacy. they don’t want to let themselves be deprogrammed because they’ve invested so much in this. somewhere deep in their souls, a lot of them know they’re in the wrong but they can’t listen to that part of themselves because it’s easier to keep going than to have the humility to say they were wrong.
if you’ve ever lost a friend to an MLM, this is the part where they double down on the MLM when it’s going poorly because their upline convinces them the problem isn’t the business model, but their friends and relations. the result is isolating.
this is the thing to understand about the political doctrine of isolationism, too. it’s not about not interfering in other places (such as say… Iran), it’s about threatening violence against all who would oppose efforts to build coalitions with the people the empire is oppressing. it’s not about letting things play out, it’s about intensifying control
As a slogan in American political discourse, “America First” originated from the nativist American Party in the 1850s. The motto has been used by both Democratic and Republican politicians in the United States. At the outbreak of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson used the slogan to define his version of neutrality, as did newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. The motto was also chosen by Republican Senator Warren G. Harding during the 1920 presidential election, which he won.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) used the phrase at the organization’s peak in the 1920s, when racist, xenophobic sentiment was widespread; it informed many of their members who ran for political office. The Immigration Act of 1924 sponsored by Washington U.S. representative Albert Johnson proved to legislate xenophobia and white supremacy, excluding immigrants on the basis of ethnicity and national origin in an effort to preserve white racial demographics. Johnson’s leading role in the immigration restriction bill elicited strong support from the KKK.
Ah, you must not know any MAGAts. Their boundless capacity for cognitive dissonance is a fundamental trait.
there’s also an element of sunk cost fallacy. they don’t want to let themselves be deprogrammed because they’ve invested so much in this. somewhere deep in their souls, a lot of them know they’re in the wrong but they can’t listen to that part of themselves because it’s easier to keep going than to have the humility to say they were wrong.
if you’ve ever lost a friend to an MLM, this is the part where they double down on the MLM when it’s going poorly because their upline convinces them the problem isn’t the business model, but their friends and relations. the result is isolating.
this is the thing to understand about the political doctrine of isolationism, too. it’s not about not interfering in other places (such as say… Iran), it’s about threatening violence against all who would oppose efforts to build coalitions with the people the empire is oppressing. it’s not about letting things play out, it’s about intensifying control
To illustrate: