MAGA cultists advocate for Marxism to stop communist agenda

[Purplecat]

@gracchus

Right-wing populists are still populists. They’re just frightened of the wrong elites

Brings to mind this excellent post from a few years ago:

Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it

My own hypothesis is that conspiracy theories are a pathology of class consciousness. Feel like there’s a nameless, faceless THEY that makes all the calls, that lies to you all the time, and that absolutely does not have your best interests at heart? Well… …you aren’t wrong. If you are a normal person there is a conspiracy against you, there has always been a conspiracy against you. The system does not have your best interests in mind. The system (even without any malice from its actors!) sim…