Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:canpakes wrote:I am speaking generally. This particular situation is certainly more convoluted. But Republicans are better skilled at this sort of branding, and they’ve co-opted the Democratic effort to expose Kav’s behavior and turned that around to make it more relatable (as in the, “I like beer” monologue). The addition of the ‘angry’ angle has always had strong appeal to the deepest part of the Republican Base who have been convinced by the the party strategists that they’ve been marginalized, ignored and disrespected in favor of brown and gay folks, by The Mainstream Media etc. This was in evidence both with Kav and as seen with Graham’s opening remarks.
I made the edit above to, in my opinion only, identify their source of outrage. They're constantly being told what they are, ie, bigoted-racist-sexist, when in reality I would say most Conservatives are just more traditionalists that are concerned with jobs. Getting hammered daily by a party that openly advocates, in their minds, deviancy and then judged for not accepting it just pisses them off. If I had to guess they're more live and let live, on a low-key vibe, than they're given credit for. This is why the Fake News angle resonates with them because they're not given any sense of nuance, and are just painted in the worst possible way in what feels like all the time.
- Doc
Coupla thoughts on this.
First, I believe that the complaint about this
marginalization should be looked at more closely and honestly. I don’t see the so-called mainstream media doing this behavior so much as I see it being
accused of doing so by the alternate mainstream media - that being Fox, and other right-wing-preferred radio and cable programming, which really needs to be sized up as
the mainstream media of choice for the subset of the population we’re talking about. And those sources drive that persecution narrative by continually drumming into the minds of its audience that this persecution is happening even when it isn’t. As example, the other night Tucker Carlson ranted on and on about how ‘the Left’ was supposedly turning the Kavanaugh hearings into an issue of
race. How they’ll use it to initiate a race war after the midterms, etc., playing to that white marginalization, disrespect and fear aspect. Not that such a thing is actually happening within any legitimate portion of the supposedly leftist mainstream media, but Tucker, Fox
et al know that they can essentially lead this sort of continual
black ops campaign and their audience will lap it up and build it into their victimization claims.
The other part of the picture is that while maybe most folks on the right might tend to the ‘live and let live’ side of things as you state, that there’s a surprisingly effective number within the group that is quite active in imposing their own sense of order on the rest of society via their preferred legislation. And unlike the weird sort of accommodation-style stuff pushed for by the Left that seeks to demand
additional ‘options’ (gender neutral bathrooms in addition to regulator bathrooms, as example), the conservative side of the political fence seems to be keen on
removing them as much as possible. There’s an important difference in there as to how how the ‘live and let live’ philosophy claimed by conservatives actually plays out.
I won’t even speak to the idea of conservatives feeling as if they need to reign in anyone else’s
deviancy, lol. But that, too, goes hand in hand with the above.
