Not so fast… We are dealing with fascists. Never forget. There is nothing - NOTHING - they won’t do to cheat, deceive, subvert or lie to achieve their demented ends.
These humans have always been with us. They are the arrested development crowd. They ane essentially cultists - easily manipulated like children into taking action on the basis of ideological brainwashing, mass hysteria and grift, or favours. Every dictator in history knew this, and rallied their masses accordingly. It’s history’s best kept secret: that by tweaking the knobs and the dials, you can engineer a sizeable portion of a populace into doing pretty much anything you want, up to and including othering, ostracising and offing their own kinfolk and countryfolk.
Not so fast… We are dealing with fascists. Never forget. There is nothing - NOTHING - they won’t do to cheat, deceive, subvert or lie to achieve their demented ends.
These humans have always been with us. They are the arrested development crowd. They ane essentially cultists - easily manipulated like children into taking action on the basis of ideological brainwashing, mass hysteria and grift, or favours. Every dictator in history knew this, and rallied their masses accordingly. It’s history’s best kept secret: that by tweaking the knobs and the dials, you can engineer a sizeable portion of a populace into doing pretty much anything you want, up to and including othering, ostracising and offing their own kinfolk and countryfolk.
Every generation has them. It’s just our turn.
This guy wrote a great book on fascism recently. This is his take on cops seemingly joining protesters. https://twitter.com/simonelmer2022/status/1639027949931319297?s=46&t=ALH33Ci-bRs6GjMRac0w2w