re: #383 The Ghost of a Flea

The other thing is: this is part of the general “it’s cruelty, not stupidity” rubric…

The liberal-centrist assertion that these people are dumb is based on an assumption of common axioms: the “stupidity” is emergent from a misunderstanding of agree-upon ideas of what government is, what morality is, what power should be used for. But conservatives use an entirely different axiom, one in which position has primacy and morality and law are conditional on position. In this worldview, violence is just the most explicit rhetoric of the entirely natural hierarchy.

It’s like claiming that a cattle baron sending his regulators to burn down your farm is stupid. In his head, it’s entirely feasible that he can do this, that he has done the math and his power and his total goon count means he can kill you and take your shit.

I agree that while much of the Trumpenproliat is blazingly stupid that many in their leadership are long term strategists who know how to read that crowd. It’s reminds me of those people who used to “gut up” and walk among the dead to control hordes of walkers on “The Walking Dead.”