The common trait that MAGA's right winged culture wars, conspiracy theories, and fabricated false flag issues have is that they all mangle bits and pieces of actual fact to the point of being beyond recognition... beyond having any semblance to truth. After which they mix in whatever absolute nonsense and pure, unadulterated bs they choose. The end product being their own "alternate reality" as they themselves have dubbed it.
And it usually holds that the truths and issues they chose to undermine via their own brand of venomous, baseless propaganda are soft target issues that belie their true intent.
Whether that be bogus claims of voter fraud to disenfranchise voters, lies about so-called "after birth abortions" to end all contraception, fervor over undocumented immigrants to preserve their racial dominance, conjured up concerns over critical race theory to conceal racism, obscure Black history and stymie diversification, or drummed up hysteria over transgenders in the restroom to denigrate and disappear the LGBTQ community.
Whatever the trumped up cause, the underlying purpose is always the same: to marginalize, disenfranchise, and discriminate against some perceived "other." To maintain control by enforcing selfish, fundamentalist, minority will and power upon the populace.
So they spoon feed their culture war-conspiracy-theory-false flag pablum 24/7 to an all too willing audience, deliberately addling the brain of their devotees via a barrage of misinformation, outright lies, and other forms of scaremongering. To better unite their followers into one common, hate fueled mindset, against that and those who (they are told) are the enemy.
And with the MAGA minded, ANY conjured up boogieman or bs cause will do: school vaccine requirements, books in libraries and librarians, "furries," fluoride, a Black Little Mermaid, men in diapers, and now... lab grown meat.
You name it.
For them, nothing is too ridiculously bizarre, or too illogically out of bounds to stir the rancor and form a cult around a twisted narrative or a perverse untruth. To invoke a new boogieman to rally against.
No wait. I take that back. Though the MAGA right doesn't mind advocating for violence, death threats and even Civil War again their fellow Americans over a lost election, it seems for now they haven't quite yet bought into the notion of shooting the family pet.
Not yet…....