Wingnuts
(noun)
- Radical reactionaries who reject the modern world for a "golden age" that never was.
- They endorse authoritarianism, strict hierarchies and cultural conformity.
- To perceived threats to their privileged status, they embrace racism, chauvinism & xenophobia.
- They kowtow to grifting demagogues who empower and enrich themselves while feeding shit to their base.
Grifters and Chumps
The “daddy” dynamic captures both the infantilization involved—looking for a strong father figure to protect them from scary changes in the world—and the way authoritarian movements depend on personal loyalty rather than institutional consistency. Daddy doesn’t need to deliver results; he just needs to make the right enemies suffer. And if he happens to embarrass America on the world stage, collaborate with adversaries, or betray fundamental values—well, that’s just daddy being daddy.
Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.