I don’t know about MTG personally, but I agree with you in a general sense. The USian civil religion of individualism fosters a selfish mindset. That propaganda you speak of is introduced before children even learn to read and speak. But there are bare spots which manifest in this way. I think the Qanon people with their MedBeds and debt jubilee are another example of this phenomenon. (I’m aware they generally have limits on who’d be allowed access to these programs but that’s beside the point I’m trying to make)
The fascist nature of popular media is nothing new either but I have to wonder if its purveyors haven’t stepped up their game. Social media has definitely proved to be a useful tool for them. They’ll continue co-opting socialist agendas to peel off the exact people you’re talking about, the heavily propagandized but otherwise reachable. I think this is what makes people like Tucker Carlson so dangerous. I count MTG in the same category, I don’t give her the benefit of the doubt like I might for someone’s Meemaw in Tennessee. (Don’t mean to imply you are, of course, I’m just sayin)
Tucker Carlson is the one where I’m 100% confident he knows exactly what he’s doing, but more importantly that he’s 100% grifting. He doesn’t believe in anything and has no interest in pursuing any kind of office, he’s content raking in millions as a political commentator. With MTG it’s a lot harder to estimate what she understands and what she believes.
I don’t know about MTG personally, but I agree with you in a general sense. The USian civil religion of individualism fosters a selfish mindset. That propaganda you speak of is introduced before children even learn to read and speak. But there are bare spots which manifest in this way. I think the Qanon people with their MedBeds and debt jubilee are another example of this phenomenon. (I’m aware they generally have limits on who’d be allowed access to these programs but that’s beside the point I’m trying to make)
The fascist nature of popular media is nothing new either but I have to wonder if its purveyors haven’t stepped up their game. Social media has definitely proved to be a useful tool for them. They’ll continue co-opting socialist agendas to peel off the exact people you’re talking about, the heavily propagandized but otherwise reachable. I think this is what makes people like Tucker Carlson so dangerous. I count MTG in the same category, I don’t give her the benefit of the doubt like I might for someone’s Meemaw in Tennessee. (Don’t mean to imply you are, of course, I’m just sayin)
Tucker Carlson is the one where I’m 100% confident he knows exactly what he’s doing, but more importantly that he’s 100% grifting. He doesn’t believe in anything and has no interest in pursuing any kind of office, he’s content raking in millions as a political commentator. With MTG it’s a lot harder to estimate what she understands and what she believes.