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Saturday, March 30, 2019

No Collusion And The Meltdown That Didn't Happen

It has been quite a while since The Omnivore posted--The Omnivore has some other stuff going on (all good stuff) that has been time consuming . . . and to add to that The Omnivore hasn't had anything brilliant to say about what's going on.

What's that? Yes--Yes, The Omnivore absolutely DOES like to hear himself talk--but even so.

However, there is one thing that The Omnivore has noted that is worth looking at: The Meltdown That Wasn't.

The Muller Synopsis
One of the things that a Trump-supporter The Omnivore knows kept harping on was "what will happen to the left when Trump is found innocent?" The theory that there would be massive unrest--riots--or whatever. Violence.

Well, it (sort of) happened--and everyone seems to be getting along okay. This doesn't surprise The Omnivore--why? And more importantly--where was this fear coming from?

Why It Doesn't Surprise The Omnivore
The reason that the lack of lefty-violence in the wake of the Mueller synopsis doesn't surprise The Omnivore is because (a) after the 2018 win, much of the D's focus is on winning back more of the government in 2020--and, as Nancy Pelosi well knows, that's easier against a fully armed-and-operational Trump than against a palatable-to-the-historical-right Pence (assuming the Trumpaloos would go along . . . which they might . . .despite what they say. Cruelty and Owning the Libs is the only real tenant of Trumpism). The other reason is (b) The Liberal (not The Left's) protests, thus far haven't been violent.

Think The Women's March--oh, sure, you want to go to Antifa--but that dog won't hunt for a number of reasons. No--by and large The Democrats have not cleaved to the rhetoric of revolution--it's the tankies who want blood in the streets (the hard-core fringe communists). This, despite what you might want to be true, isn't the case for The Right--which is now just "the whole right."

So Where's It Coming From?
You should look at QAnon--no, really--you should. It's important. QAnon, as a phenomena is growing. It's an absolute null-set grift: the whole idea has been self-dismantling from the get-go. The predictions have failed. The proofs are easily disproved. The theory is a heavy lift--even for conspiracy theory--but it's gaining steam.

One of the key tenants of QAnon is that the good-guys---Q--have to pull off their mass-arrests and executions (of Democrats and other world-wide-leaders) because if they were to come out with their irrefutable proof . . . that's right--there would be riots.

They have to slowly wake the world up with armies of meme-warriors--your 70+ year-old grannie shit-posting on Facebook.

This is really what they think the plan consists of (more or less). That's right: riots.

The right believed The Left would riot--because that was their projection. They know that if Trump did (or does) go down for breaking the law, they will not/cannot believe it was done fairly--and so: riot.

Would they really? Some would. We don't have to wonder--we've seen plenty of evidence of this recently. There would be random radicalizations--there would be small autonomous cells. The entire QAnon cult--large pieces of it, anyway, would see this as an attack by the Deep State--and they would, ideologically, have little choice but to respond with violence.

Let's say .1%? That's a ton of people.

That's a problem.

It isn't getting better. Algorithms and social media are pushing us towards greater radicalization on the fringes. The Right has been told, over and over, by people they trust, that they are deep victims of a vast swath of liberal bullies. They can point to things. There is no chance of convincing them that not only is this not true--the opposite is true--but it has made people like Alex Jones so much money that it is a self-sustaining hyper-targeted marketing operation.

They say you "can't kill an idea." That's probably no so much actually true. But you definitely can't kill a really good sales pitch.

Right now, The Right as being driven to violence with no other choice against an implacable enemy is, alas, a really good sales pitch. It feels so good it justifies everything you wanted to do anyway.

Everything.

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