"MAGAs are Nazis!"

I’ve been doom-scrolling X lately, curious what the social narratives are surrounding the ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

I knew the Left would be name-calling and collectively disruptive. And the Right would present themselves as the rational side, committed to law and order.

One might ask that if I already knew the answer to the question, why did I ask it? Because as my childhood idol He-Man used to say: “knowing is only half the battle.”

I’m a firm believer, when it comes to abstract social agendas, that truth is perception. While I’m also a firm believer in absolute truth, heavily influenced by Saint Augustine of Hippo, the two “truths” are not the same thing; one is an intangible, biased opinion, which may be neither true nor false, and is entirely subjective, thus rendering it mostly irrelevant. The other is a tangible phenomenon that resolves existential questions rooted in philosophical realism.
Not intending to go down a rabbit hole, the point I’m getting at is this: the core of Leftist activism is overt obnoxiousness.

Neo-Leftism is centered around the recruitment of social misfits (typically by monetizing them), and training them to throw public temper-tantrums in order to destabilize society. It’s basically using Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals (which, was a book devoted to his god, Lucifer) as a playbook, by recruiting the scum of society to act as a spearhead to prod the populace.

This isn’t to be dismissive of the Right. They have their own issues. The majority are midwits, who have logic and reason on their side, and believe that alone is the winning formula. All they need to do is present a rational argument in the course of debate, and viola! Libs are ideologically transformed into MAGAs instantaneously.

Conservatives redundantly regurgitate their facts, figures and data only be met by “stfu, you POS NAZI!!”

I’ve personally witnessed this cyclic insanity for almost 20 years.

I remember the early Facebook days, before algorithmic censorship, when you could really speak your mind on the internet. Those were some fun times, but I’m almost positive I never changed anyone’s mind or worldview. If anything, I probably made them even more of a true believer in their position than they already were. Consequently, not only was it a complete waste of time (the only human commodity that actually matters), but it was counter-intuitive to my goal, which was propagating the truth.

This can also be said of name-calling Leftists. For decades they’ve been calling White people “Nazis,” only to be met by, “I’m not a NAZI, I had a half-black friend in college,” shutting down all debate.

Basic psychology suggests that if a group is called a specific name long enough, at some point they might believe it.

Moral of the story: be careful what you wish for.