Unrepudiated and Unabated, Trump's Climate of Rage Will Find Its Oswald

[riversedge]

Unrepudiated and Unabated, Trump's Climate of Rage Will Find Its Oswald

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/unrepudiated-and-unabated-trumps-climate-of-rage-will-find-it


Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 4 a.m.

By Jim Schutze

Dallas knows how to find and recruit an Oswald. Just start the ball rolling downhill, sit back and let momentum do the dirty work.
Marina Oswald via



Dallas knows a thing or two about assassination conspiracies. We know that the more important conspirator is usually the political climate, not the shooter.

Properly stoked with hate, violence and dehumanizing vilification, the climate will find its shooter. A Lee Harvey Oswald will step forward to kill JFK or a Yigal Amir will volunteer to murder Yitzhak Rabin, as Thomas L. Friedman argued forcefully two days ago on The New York Times op-ed page.

More than 30 years ago I interviewed the late Stanley Marcus, then recently retired as head of the Dallas-based Neiman Marcus retail store chain. He had lived through the years of extremism in Dallas preceding the 1963 assassination here of JFK by Oswald.

When I interviewed him in the mid-1980s, the popular belief was that Oswald had acted as a cog in some larger as-yet unearthed conspiracy. That basic concept was an almost unshakeable shibboleth, a cultural assumption fervently held by many if not most Americans. What Marcus wanted to get across to me was that the reality was far worse than a conspiracy, less neatly satisfying, much more broadly incriminating..................

[misterhighwasted]

1. Thanks for posting

[Bill USA]

2. demagoguery results in idiots becoming "martyrs" committing acts of violence against the demonized.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Yep. My older brother saw some very happy customers...

... when he was a preteen delivering newspapers that headlined JFK's assassination. He was shocked by it, especially at that age.

His experience wasn't at all like the media narrative that the whole country was in mourning about it.

His simple generalization of Republicans, to this day, is that they're mean.

[Joisey Boy]

4. Scary article about scary people

Some of whom we hug on Thanksgiving.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. Kick for the truth.

This is how it works...builds up by increasing acceptance of meanness, dehumanization of the scapegoats, increased examples of acting out--the exhilarating rush reinforces the acting out.

Isolated in their conservative information vacuum, they approve of their circle of anti-social knee-jerkers, until someone with high levels of rage and impulsivity does indeed do the bidding of the barely restrained social messages circulating within their self-reinforcing closed system.