The only ideological consistency you’ll ever see from the right wing is whatever canard or talking point supports Their Guy, and that the rules should only apply to everyone else. Expect their actual viewpoints to flip-flop incessantly depending on whether or not Their Guy is currently in power.
It’s not even really a flip-flop, to them the guns were always about protecting American conservative identity and nothing else, for nobody else.
Now that they hold the power and they don’t plan on letting go of it willingly, the guns can be used for punching down for that same goal. Making sure the gays don’t corrupt the youth. Making sure the coloreds don’t get too uppity.
They want people they don’t like to be get hurt, arrested, beaten, jailed, intimidated and threatened because it makes them feel good about themselves.
However, they don’t want any of that stuff happen anywhere near them … or have anyone ask them to do any of those activities themselves … they just want to watch on the sidelines and shout out their support for everything as long as it all goes their way.
And it’s also a distraction from everything else in life. THEIR GUY in power might be destroying their country, making everything expensive and making everyone, regardless of their political affiliation, miserable … but as long as they can turn on the news and watch brown people and other minorities getting arrested and intimidated by goons in black masks and sunglasses, then it all makes up for the fact that the country is slowly degrading around them.
The only ideological consistency you’ll ever see from the right wing is whatever canard or talking point supports Their Guy, and that the rules should only apply to everyone else. Expect their actual viewpoints to flip-flop incessantly depending on whether or not Their Guy is currently in power.
It’s not even really a flip-flop, to them the guns were always about protecting American conservative identity and nothing else, for nobody else.
Now that they hold the power and they don’t plan on letting go of it willingly, the guns can be used for punching down for that same goal. Making sure the gays don’t corrupt the youth. Making sure the coloreds don’t get too uppity.
My gun is black, does that count?
It’s based on cowardice
They want people they don’t like to be get hurt, arrested, beaten, jailed, intimidated and threatened because it makes them feel good about themselves.
However, they don’t want any of that stuff happen anywhere near them … or have anyone ask them to do any of those activities themselves … they just want to watch on the sidelines and shout out their support for everything as long as it all goes their way.
And it’s also a distraction from everything else in life. THEIR GUY in power might be destroying their country, making everything expensive and making everyone, regardless of their political affiliation, miserable … but as long as they can turn on the news and watch brown people and other minorities getting arrested and intimidated by goons in black masks and sunglasses, then it all makes up for the fact that the country is slowly degrading around them.