Speak of the Devil presents Third Side Perspectives. Reverend Campbell is joined by Witch Cimminnee Holt and Witch Doctor Troj to discuss Radicalization. They will cover all aspects of radicalization: What it means to be radicalized, pathways to radicalization, how to determine if you have been radicalized and steps one can take to come back from it.
Opening Monologue
Welcome to another Speak of the Devil presents Third Side Perspectives! I have to tell you, I haven't been this concerned about politics since the 2004 election between George W Bush and John Kerry. You see at that time we had just been lied into a war that we’re still fighting today by George W Bush which justified terrorism for the next century against the US. We gave up our individual freedoms with his patriot act because we were scared. Fear. Fear makes us do some crazy things. Fear gave Trump his first term in office, and it very well may give him a second term. That is, if you believe this election and your votes actually matter, because the Trump administration is actively seeking ways to overturn a negative election where he loses on a number of different fronts.
First he tries to convince the public the election is rigged before it starts. Then the voter ballots are fake. They reduce sorting machined in the postal service. Then they close polling locations. They restrict who can actually vote. They make voting difficult by requiring more documentation. They plan to throw out the votes and use state representatives in battleground states that are on team Trump to decide the election. They contest it to the supreme court that Trump has stacked in his first term. And even if all that fails, he has stated over and over again, he will simply not accept it, and he will not leave office.
Every Trump cult member who claims they love freedom and democracy is obviously not listening to their dear leader, or watching what he is actually doing. He removes environmental protections, renege on nuclear deals, praises dictators, strips away your already limited healthcare protections, he lied about COVID-19 leading to the over 200k american deaths, he uses the presidency to enrich himself, gives tax breaks to those who don’t need it while leaving everyone else, primarily his base, to fend for themselves. He is an admitted sexual predator, he demonizes american citizens and immigrants of different skin colors, his border policy locked up and killed children, he has created a more divided America than ever in my lifetime. There are continuous protests in the streets he meets with violence, he believes in extra judicial killing, he has destroyed our reputation in the world, repaired by the last administration from George W Bush’s ‘reign of terror’, caused a recession with his failed economic policies and now is telling everyone that he doesn’t care about the constitution, democracy or justice and that he will try to become the first american dictator…. From his own actual lips!
I am fucking tired of winning!
But, I won’t spend any time trying to convince a cult member of their insanity. How they are actively destroying the very thing they claim to love and cutting off their own nose to spite their face. They are already radicalized. I will not spend any time arguing with those who see all things as equal, and don’t recognize the urgency of now. You see radical ideas are only bad when they restrict progress. Radical policies are only negative when they hold a population down. But radicals don’t see reality, they only see the propaganda carefully laid out before them. And truth, well, truth becomes fake news in their twisted minds.
So let's talk about this. Let's talk about radicalization and extremism.
