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‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis
(www.theguardian.com)
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Why do so many conservatives resort to intimidation, "death threats", and violence to reinforce their beliefs? The current Conservative movement seems to be based as much on fear and retribution as anything else. Meanwhile, they get their panties in a bunch when someone calls them "deplorable"....
Because that’s how fascist nationalism works
It's the conspiracy theory mindset:
They convince themselves they are geniuses because they "know" something scientists deny, and they "saw through the lies", etc.
So when somone they previously listened to speaks against the conspiracy, all they hear is someone they trusted calling them stupid. And they project their own self-hatred onto that person.
When you don't have the truth at your side, you gotta resort to something else.
You're talking about people who have never had the intelligence or sense to win an argument with facts or anything in that sludge pit they call a mind
Intimidation and violence is their only resort for people to nod along
It would work on them. Why would it not work on you? Because the threat is not dire enough? We'll make it more dire then.
I've been told that a lot of irrational anger has its roots in control, including lack of control.
If that's true, then I think those that quickly resort to violence in defense of their ideology, do so since they fear losing control of how they hold that ideology in high esteem.