GOP uses 9/11 anniversary to bash left-wing Dems

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FIRST LINE: DALLAS — Republicans are invoking 9/11 to bash left-wing Democrats in a growing number of midterm races , seizing on the 25th anniversary of the attacks to portray them or their supporters as anti-American and sympathetic to terrorists.

The Dissection

This is a campaign-technology story: historical trauma is being converted into a loyalty test. The tactic attaches national betrayal and terrorist sympathy to left-wing Democrats or their supporters, turning political competition into a moral-security purge. It is not an argument about productive capacity. It is an attempt to harvest fear and identity from a legitimacy reserve that is already decaying.

The Core Fallacy

The underlying fallacy is treating symbolic political victory as systemic repair. Patriotism accusations do not restore the mass employment → wage → consumption circuit, block cognitive automation, or preserve broad productive participation. Under the Discontinuity Thesis, this is surface combat around a deeper failure governed by P1, P2, and P3.

The tactic may win votes. It cannot make human labor economically necessary again.

Hidden Assumptions

• That trauma-based identity mobilization can substitute for material legitimacy.
• That branding opponents as anti-American will produce durable authority rather than further institutional corrosion.
• That electoral victory is equivalent to governing capacity.
• That public attention can remain fixed on symbolic enemies while the productive base deteriorates.
• That the return of an old campaign tactic represents strategic renewal rather than reuse of a failing system’s remaining emotional ammunition.

Social Function

Propaganda and ideological anesthetic, with a partial truth embedded inside it. The reported tactic is real political behavior, but its social function is to redirect anger toward alleged internal enemies instead of toward the structural collapse of productive participation. It gives factions a target to punish and institutions a delay mechanism. It does not give the system a future.

The Verdict

The GOP is reviving a legacy weapon for a legacy order. It can produce short-term electoral gains by weaponizing memory, but it cannot reverse the economic discontinuity. This is not recovery. It is carcass management: factions fighting over legitimacy, blame, and control while the employment-consumption circuit moves toward terminal failure.