Responding to Krsti Burke's "OK, Let's Talk About This Town Hall"

11:33 - 12:15 I interpret this differently. What Diana is saying is this:

"My kind of people (my social and ideological tribe) are the people (the only people) I represent.

Anyone else just doesn't matter to me and doesn't matter to our in-group, because we don't value them, we don't respect them, and we aren't "them". She's flag-planting, as a white Christian nationalist colonizer. "We conquered this territory. It's ours now." Effectively, she sees you as an enemy combatant; caught behind your enemy's battle lines on the map. From that perspective, all critical voices are automatically (a) "conquered people" who lost that territory in an ongoing civil war.

"That war was never really over. The South did rise again. And it's going to win."

What you call "America", is a difference of narrative between what the North and South call "America".

So from her perspective, and from the perspective of the 'mom' you let stand with you in the line outside, ... Diana **does** always promptly respond to all of her fellow Americans' questions and concerns (within her district). She only counts like-minded people as her fellow Americans and constituents.

But she has to say all of that in dog-whistling subtext "for now", because they don't want the "wayward majority" of "pseudo"-Americans to understand what's happening ... until that larger war is finally won by *the Army of God*. ----- A secondary point: The reason Diana (and MAGA leaders, in general) don't mind lying to their own supporters is this: MAGA is operating from an old metanarrative called "Social Darwinism". It's a debunked, complex, pseudoscientific hypothesis. But it's still the metanarrative for hyper-conservative elites. Within the context of that narrative, the sheep don't always "know what's good for society". So the masters can't always be honest with them. To quote Lord Farquad "Some of you may die. But it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". Like Adolph, they believe this: Creating the most prosperous possible empire requires forcing struggling people to "find it within themselves" to "pull their own weight". Those who either can't or won't ... must either rely on the charity of their blood-kin, or huddle at the mercy of the churches or else go be not-alive in a ditch somewhere. -So that the economy will thrive, and the survivors will have found inner strength they didn't even realize they had. This, as they see it, is a cure for the "sin of laziness". But it's also a way to send their own actually disabled tribal members to meet "God" at the pearly gates. Effectively, they are planning "retroactive abortions"; performed on the non-consenting. That's justified by sentiments like * "The ends justify the means", * "Those people will be happier in Heaven anyways", and * "Those who are going to Hell instead ... may as well get there sooner, so that God's kingdom on Earth can be built."; This is their "final solution". This is why they reasoned exactly the same way about vaccines, masks, and social distancing during the Pandemic. They wanted "the weakest links" to die off so that the survivors could forge an economically powerful empire. From there, their "Empire of strength" could tame the rest of the world "for its own good". But they can't just openly SAY all that when most people (even most of their supporters) would rebel. They can't come right out and say "We're doing a PURGE". So they have to lie. Disabled, elderly, and otherwise disadvantaged and vulnerable people won't respond well to being told "You're all in the way of us being a powerful nation. So you all need to die". Nor can they currently get away with concentration camps (on that scale), nor gassing the disabled, the elderly, and their ideological rivals. So they're gutting the programs that keep the vulnerable people alive. Many will die. The rest will be forced to surrender and suckle at the teets of hyper-conservative, State-sponsored churches; where they and their children will be brainwashed; to ensure a lasting victory.