This is How it Happens

[Nevilledog]

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“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
James Waterman Wise

Fascism will destroy anything in its path including our right to know the truth. It’s here, it’s global and if not stopped, it will end us.
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This is How it Happens
Republicans are laying the groundwork to return to power by any means necessary.
maxnewstoday.com
2:45 AM · Jun 13, 2021

https://www.maxnewstoday.com/post/this-is-how-it-happens

Most everyone knows the metaphor of the frog in boiling water.

For the uninitiated, if you drop the unfortunate amphibian straight in, it will scream to get out. But if you put it in cool water and increase the temperature slowly, the animal becomes acclimated and is eventually burned alive.

This example is used as a parable to describe the failure to act against a problematic situation, which will increase in severity until reaching catastrophic proportions. We have reached that blistering point in America and abroad, as we slip further toward a dictatorial global nightmare.

I may sound alarmist. I’m not. Tyranny is here and has reached many parts of the globe with no indication of slowing down. Authoritarianism will destroy us and any semblance of independent, free expression of thought.

In America, no one knows how to play this better than the far right.

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[Arkansas Granny]

1. K & R. Thanks for posting.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Needs that photo-op where TFG held a Bible upside-down. nt

[Baked Potato]

3. They look and act like video game characters, each assigned an attribute.

All of them phony MOFOs drawing a fat check and living large off Americans.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Interesting info on the quote, which I didn't know:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/28/flag/

[Nevilledog]

5. Fascinating

[yonder]

7. +1.

[progressoid]

8. And the frog analogy isn't true either.

https://archive-srel.uga.edu/outreach/ecoviews/ecoview071223.htm

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Republican plutocrats are also delighted to sell you the flags and crosses.

Free shipping for orders over $25........

All profits from sales go to the RNC......

[Lonestarblue]

9. Active members of the Fascist Club of America.

All of whom are well educated enough to understand exactly where they’re helping to take the US with their goal of overturning democracy.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. This is why focusing on "winning big" in 2022 is misguided, the fight is NOW

In the streets if necessary.

Tomorrow, the Poor People’s Campaign takes to the streets of West Virginia to protest against the resurrection of Jim Crow, and demand congress act to secure voting rights, even if it means killing the filibuster.