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How To Spot Fascism Before Its Too Late (Toon) (Original Post) Saviolo May 2017 OP
K&R nt Doremus May 2017 #1
A few people have posted this on Facebook PatSeg May 2017 #2
These are scary times Johnny2X2X May 2017 #3
My thought exactly. Saviolo May 2017 #5
How to fight Johnny2X2X May 2017 #6
They absolutely reject truth and fact Saviolo May 2017 #9
K&R Solly Mack May 2017 #4
k and r niyad May 2017 #7
K & R and thank you for this post mountain grammy May 2017 #8
The Resistance is the new normal that children need to know about. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #10

Johnny2X2X

(18,745 posts)
3. These are scary times
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:47 PM
May 2017

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

(3,270 posts)
5. My thought exactly.
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:57 PM
May 2017

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

(18,745 posts)
6. How to fight
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:15 PM
May 2017

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

(3,270 posts)
9. They absolutely reject truth and fact
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:37 PM
May 2017

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.

mountain grammy

(26,571 posts)
8. K & R and thank you for this post
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:34 PM
May 2017

I learned something today. Chilling how these symbols become part of the landscape.

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