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That's disturbing. That quoted bit of dialogue definitely has some grandiose language. Seems like yet another case where extremist right wing media fed into psychosis leading to a tragic outcome.
Yeah definitely a mix of mental health and too much propaganda. In the quoted portions he is clearly delusional. He tells all postal workers that if they don't quit and join their countrymen he can't promise protection for them. He may have done something like this anyway but clearly the anti Biden message has resonated with him.
Are we calling conservatism a psychosis now? Ok, I can see that.
I think it's more that this nut job latched onto conservatism as his thing. If it wasn't that it would have been something else.
That being said, if conservatism wasn't preventing adequate mental healthcare maybe this wouldn't have happened.
But it wasn't something else and it's never something else.
Really? No crazy person has ever snapped and killed someone for any reason other than conservatism?
What ideology produces a comparable number of spree killers to the far right?
You don't have to be "crazy" to kill someone (unless you care to argue that every soldier is a crazy person) and you don't have to be far-right to kill someone.
But American conservatives absolutely target and encourage murderers using exactly the same methods as Muslim extremists do. They told him exactly who he should kill and why he should kill them.
Would he have killed him anyway, even if conservatives hadn't pushed him to? Sure, maybe.
But in this reality, he held up a severed head to the public and repeated conservative talking points.
I'd agree that conservatism is probably the biggest one as far as political idealogy currently but throughout history communism and anarchism have certainly had their share. I'm sure we could find examples from just about any of them if we took the time to dig into it. I wasn't limiting it to political ideologies though. Crazy people have snapped and murdered people for all sorts of non political reasons as well.
The far-right intentionally targets vulnerable people. It's why all their heroes are teenagers or violently mentally ill.
Stochastic terrorism in action.