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An elected California member of the Democrat National Committee has expressed interest in “deprogramming” the 73+ million Americans who voted for President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
In disturbing tweets posted Tuesday evening, DNC member David Atkins argued that the president’s supporters must be “deprogrammed” because they comprise a “conspiracy theory fueled belligerent death cult against reality & basic decency.”
It’s apparently Atkins’ belief that every single Trump supporter in America subscribes to the QAnon conspiracy theory, that the mainstream media outlet Fox News is itself equivalent to QAnon and that all Trump supporters are responsible for the kidnapping plot in Michigan that was hatched together by anti-Trump anarchists …
View his tweets below (*Language warning):
No seriously…how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?
We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 18, 2020
This is not your standard partisan policy disagreement. This is a conspiracy theory fueled belligerent death cult against reality & basic decency.
The only actual policy debates of note are happening within the dem coalition between left and center left.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 18, 2020
I know conservatives are upset by some of the responses here. And yeah, many are out of line.
But what do you expect people to do in self-preservation? The Right has been running 4 years on “fuck your feelings, my conspiracy theories are valid opinions, and we have more guns.”
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 19, 2020
You can’t run on a civil war footing hopped up on conspiracy theories hating everyone who lives in cities, mainlining Fox/Breitbart/QAnon, threatening to kidnap governors and shoot protesters, without people trying to figure out how to reverse the brainwashing.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 19, 2020
i mean, for chrissakes, conservatives are literally giving themselves COVID just to own the libs. They’re dying in COVID wards insisting they don’t have COVID because it must be a liberal plot.
People are gonna try to figure out how to defend themselves.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 19, 2020
Deprogramming refers to an authoritarian process by which someone is “convinced” to (or rather forced into) abandoning allegedly controversial beliefs that go against the status quo. It’s currently being used against Muslims in China.
“Did you know there are roughly one million people currently held in internment camps in China? One million people held against their will, facing no criminal charges, forcefully cut off from the outside world. This is the story of the Uighurs, a small, insulated ethnic minority in western China,” NBC News reported last year.
“The predominantly Muslim group has faced growing levels of Islamophobia and paranoia from the Chinese government. Right now, roughly 10 percent of the Uighur population has been ‘disappeared,’ held indefinitely in re-education camps where they are subjected to totalitarian indoctrination in an attempt to erase their identity, their language, their religion and their culture.”
That is what’s known as deprogramming, and apparently, Atkins believes it’s necessary to impose the same authoritarianism on a large chunk of the American people.
But even more disturbing is the fact that, judging by his tweets’ likes, tens of thousands of other Democrats share this radical, authoritarian fantasy.
Holy shit. The only thing creepier and more alarming than this tweet is how many times it’s been liked and re-tweeted.
If you don’t recognize the intense strain of authoritarianism in this new ruling coalition, you see nothing about US politics. Just look at it: https://t.co/70VpAT9SZq
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 19, 2020
It should come as only a small shocker though given the left’s growing embrace of authoritarianism.
Commenting earlier this week on the left’s additional desire to censor all dissenting opinions, Pullitizer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald opined in a a tweet that “[t]here is no more authoritarian species in the wild than US liberals.”
“In every controversy, they side with institutions of authority: they love the large corporate press, the FBI, CIA, workplace managers, editors – they worship & revere authority,” he added.
This is amazing, but not really. There is no more authoritarian species in the wild than US liberals. In every controversy, they side with institutions of authority: they love the large corporate press, the FBI, CIA, workplace managers, editors – they worship & revere authority: https://t.co/WhI6llfmFC
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 17, 2020
Was he wrong?
The irony is that Atkins has aligned himself with a party and ideology that believes men can menstruate, silence is violence, black conservatives are white supremacists, humanity is slated for extinction in 10 years, President Donald Trump is a Russian asset and Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden is president-elect (not yet).
The point is that his own side is teeming with irrationality, illiberalism and conspiracy theories, raising the question of why only one side’s alleged lunatics deserve to be deprogrammed. It’s almost as if his calls for deprogramming have nothing to do with rectifying erroneous beliefs and everything to do with silencing dissent.
Regardless, there’s a reason the Second Amendment exists — to protect the American people from authoritarian zealots like David Atkins and those like him.
Ah yes….. You don’t agree with us so we must ” reprogram you”
Thank God for the second amendment.— Jason (@jcshank1976) November 19, 2020
The 2nd amendment says you won’t be sending anyone anywhere.
— Time traveler (@Trumpki09056351) November 19, 2020
You people are fckn lunatics! Fckn no different than Hitler, thank God for the second amendment
— 2Strikes (@OneLateralus) November 19, 2020
Try it. I can 100% guarantee the outcome isn’t what you think it’s gonna be. @NRA #SecondAmendment pic.twitter.com/wM39hwWmEa
— 🇺🇸President Elect S. Ryan🇺🇸 (@Covf3f3Q) November 19, 2020
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