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All That Talk About Deep State, Pizzagate, Etc., Is To Create Cowards [1]

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Date: 2023-09-11

The two most important qualities of being a human being are courage and humbleness. The third most important quality is more intellectual in nature, oriented towards ethics. The reason that courage is the most important quality of being a human being is that without courage, nothing else can be done.

I have thought for a long time that the evil that in current conservatism is too organized and focused to be the product of one person (Yes, Rupert Murdoch, I am thinking of you). It seemed to me that it took the discipline and resources of the enemies of democracy, authoritarian nation states like Russia and China, and the intelligence services of those countries.

My personal insight (many others have had this, I am sure) into Deep State conspiracies came from the continual preemptive strikes by conservatives blaming others for the thing they are doing. Trump is the big example, but conservative leaders do it all the time nowadays. Conservative media is the leader in preemptive strikes, and why good laws and regulations on media are needed to address the issue.

The preemptive strikes are done to create cowards who will not state the obvious. The preemptive strikes are mostly against other conservatives, although it is not obvious from the way the strikes blame non-conservatives. My personal insight (not said quite like this, that I have read) is that the enemies of democracy are always talking about Deep State, Pizzagate, etc., because they are preemptively striking out against what is obvious, that they are trying to destroy democracy. So, they preemptively strike out about progressives destroying democracy.

A lot of people here at Daily Kos could say this better than I could. Please do so. I am sure that has been done here, but I just have not read it in a way that hit me in the way that that my insight hit me. It doesn’t take a bunch of investigative journalism to realize the obvious. I am writing because I figure there can never be enough diaries about how the enemies of democracy are trying to destroy democracy.

This diary talks about preemptive strikes as a way to create cowards, particularly by cowing conservatives. Other good articles would be how conservatives attempt to destroy humbleness, and how they attempt to destroy ethics. In other words, conservatives actively attacking and destroying the three most important qualities of being a human being.

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