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Nov. 5th, 2016 03:43 amI think the new element is that they suspect they're wrong. They like Trump because he cheerfully models the one tactic left open to them for protecting their entitlement fantasies - brazen, self-assertive lying. Seems to have worked for him, right?
Because whenever they let their eyes open they see exactly what we do. All the evidence tells them that their beliefs make no sense, are harmful, are being abandoned, are rightly thus easily mocked, will all be soon enough forgotten. That they're the suckers, the has-beens, the villains. So fuck the evidence! It's narcissism writ large. The narcissism of a class, a race. Not seeing that class is dismissed and the race is over.
Because whenever they let their eyes open they see exactly what we do. All the evidence tells them that their beliefs make no sense, are harmful, are being abandoned, are rightly thus easily mocked, will all be soon enough forgotten. That they're the suckers, the has-beens, the villains. So fuck the evidence! It's narcissism writ large. The narcissism of a class, a race. Not seeing that class is dismissed and the race is over.
