Why they hate us

A lot of these posts are about why we hate ourselves.

Why these other mooks hate us has deep roots.

The history of anti-press anti-intellectual anti-coastal elite hatred goes back to the founding of the Republic. It also goes back to mid-19th century European anti-Semitism, the Rothchilds and the notion the entire world was controlled by a shadow council of Jews. All of which was condensed into the hoax pamphlet Protocols of the Elders of Zion at the beginning of the 20th century, then repackaged and weaponized in the 1920s by Henry Ford in The Dearborn Independent as "The International Jew."

Those hateful ideas remain in the American bloodstream to this day. If you poll Americans, an astonishing number will continue to say the same - that radical Jews control the media. Which is one of the many weirdnesses of christianist American conservatism: love Israel, hate Jews.

Which is why we still see a specific kind of American halfwit shitposting about "cosmopolitan elites" and chanting "you will not replace us" and "blood and soil" to this day. It's heartbreaking. But not surprising.

Distrust of the press in this country is as old as the country itself.

Those old fears and hatreds are being deepened, widened and accelerated by social media.

 

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Michael Flynn says of the US: 'We have to have one religion'

 

Absolutely friend. Throughout my day, I have two co-anchors. “Cindy” isn’t the issue.

 

Every time I see this thread title, I reflexively want to reply "because they ain't us."

 

That's what we do here, hack

 

"They" didn't hate us until someone told them to hate us.

 

I always think Palin is an underappreciated pioneer to this shit. Katie Couric exposed Palin as a fucking clown by asking the most basic of questions, and Palin responded by going all-in against the media. Her fans — not then the whole GOP — devoured it. She never tried to explain why she couldn't name a single book, magazine or newspaper she'd ever read. She said it was a "gotcha" question and a great many people just accepted that.

I'm sure "attack the messenger" goes way back in political strategies, but I really see the blueprints for what Trump does in Palin: It doesn't what you did initially or how stupid and disingenuous you look in your rebuttle. Scream about the media and you'll be fine.

 

Eh. Jefferson was definitely dealing with a bit of a different beast than Nixon and Bush, and certainly, the latter two never said "Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. … What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”

Being mad at the media certainly isn't a novel idea for either party, but I'm not sure there's a question it's been taken up a notch in the last decade or so. If we end up in Jefferson's world, i.e. politicians writing vicious takedowns of one another under ancient Roman pseudonyms in strictly partisan outlets, well, at least we know we've survived that already.