This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “As nicely as you can, will you explain to me why Republicans think all Democrats are racist in today’s time, not 161 years ago? I don’t understand, I was told I was “a racist POS for being a democrat”.”

I’m taking a wild guess here, but if it was a MAGA hurling that accusation, then it was a projection that has been part of their denial and displacement kit for a long time now.

They internally acknowledge how racism is bad, but they don’t understand how or why, only that they can’t stand being thought of as racist. It forces them off their imaginary horse of righteous indignity, a valuable fuel for their rage addictions and transforms their Machiavellian glee into crushing shame.

They conveniently ignore the dramatic shift which occurred between political parties during the civil rights marches and the legislation they felt betrayed by.

They salivate over a fading dream of the moral superiority they once held, while Lincoln became revered for eliminating a systematic abuse they long to restore.

They cannot accept how it was their same people who fought to preserve slavery, committed genocide of the Jewish people, endorsed child labour, forcing women to exist as nothing more than birthing chambers and toys for their pleasure.

They cannot accept how utterly evil they are because they value material wealth above all. Even though the saviour they worship commands them to care for their fellow citizens, they’re too wrapped in their fears and insecurities to acknowledge a world outside their navels.

They cannot comprehend how their well-being is contingent upon the well-being of someone they would rather consider inferior to them by pigmentation than by the character within that shell.

Their saviour commands them to see life beyond a shell, but they cannot help but fixate on the shallow exterior of every issue humanity faces.

They are excellent attack dogs but they suck in every leadership capacity humans rely on for progress. They cannot see beyond internal needs due to either a biological condition of birth, environmental conditions affecting their development, or a combination of both nature and nurture.

Their capacity for developing empathy toward others outside their tribal sphere is either limited or absent. Nothing is truly real unless it happens to them, and in the case of COVID-19 fatalities, I remember reading about people who insisted that COVID-19 was a hoax while on their deathbed and breathing their last few breaths.

Making matters worse is that they sincerely believe their abysmal incompetence and their insecurity entitle them to a divine right to subjugate all those they deem their inferiors. Much of what drives the current trend toward extreme right-wing fascism is an absolutist concept drawn from religious doctrine called the “Divine Right of Kings.”

They view their assaults on the inferior class of sensitive, compassionate, and empathetic human beings as a means of achieving recognition within their sycophantic worship of power.

For example, beating up “coloureds” is a means of proving their worth to those they seek validation from. Incidents of intensely escalated conflicts, which include dynamics of violence, a blow by one is rated by a crowd of peers cheering the successful infliction of harm. Collectively, this kind of abuse dynamic is a form of validation that resembles a tribal ritual for reinforcing solidarity within a destructive context interpreted as a win against an enemy.

People who have succumbed to an addiction to hatred toward a group don’t view their victims as victims but as threats that must be eliminated. A “psychological short-circuit” triggering a debilitating degree of shame would otherwise occur when acknowledging their targets as humans victimized by their hands.

They have no means of asserting an intrinsic source of validation because their self-respect has been beaten out of them to be replaced by self-loathing.

They frequently appeal to external authorities to justify their beliefs and actions while invoking the logical fallacy of appeal to populism in enabling that validation of self.

Calling you a racist PoS is a form of virtue signalling that ironically serves as a reward for them from peers who also struggle from the cognitive dissonance characterizing their existence. It also helps to feed their rage addiction, in which the many rage-farming parasites prevalent on social media exploit for political and economic advantage.

It’s a form of cognitive dissociation that allows them to escape accountability for their inner ugliness while justifying actions that empower it.

By calling you a racist PoS, they permit themselves to escalate their attack in ways that appeal to their Machiavellian proclivities.

They are telling you, by hurling their accusation, that they have created justification in their mind to assault you physically for pleasure, not accountability.