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PatSeg
(47,691 posts)It is excellent!
Johnny2X2X
(19,240 posts)And I think the control the fascists are exerting over the minds of their followers is even more complete now than in Nazi Germany. They have created a cult where Trump controls reality.
Anything is possible right now, and I mean anything. The fascists have complete control and are shaping reality at all levels of government and at all levels of American life. We think it's insane that 40% of the country believes their nonsense, wait until that 40% becomes 80%, they've already got 80% of the country believing lies on some topics.
If they can get 60% of the country to believe that immigrants are a plague on society then genocide right here in America on a massive scale is possible. I can easily envision a country where brown people are gassed by the millions.
Saviolo
(3,284 posts)I put together a little slapdash post about it here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029001144
The internet's lizard brain is killing the concept of "fact."
Johnny2X2X
(19,240 posts)The most frustrating part is that I don't know an effective way to fight this, the truth is not working.
They were able to make Hillary's non scandals into a bigger deal than Trump's blatantly real scandals. The truth played no part in it. And to think these people being duped are unintelligent and non critical thinkers underestimates them. Many of the Deplorables are smart people and can think critically, the brain washing is just too powerful for them to resist.
Saviolo
(3,284 posts)And it comes right from the top:
Facts and "the truth" bounce completely off of their rejection of fact and truth. They can build their own subjective reality around only what they feel, and actual facts can be rejected handily with "fake news" or "liberal bias." There is no fighting it that I can see. They've embraced a zen-like rejection of anything factual.
Solly Mack
(90,795 posts)niyad
(113,701 posts)mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)I learned something today. Chilling how these symbols become part of the landscape.