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ck4829

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4. Certainly. I posted this after Unite the Right before I knew what pluralistic ignorance was

Reply to WhiteTara (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 26, 2018, 10:54 AM

Nov 2018

Now I have a name to it.

The ideal camps today's Nazis would have would have no guards or even gates - They want us to just go along with them and actually expect us to.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10029516981

It might be by apathy through things like #Walkaway or violence and intimidation, the right wing wants to create a political environment where it becomes "weird" to resist them because they can't win though some sort of right wing revolution via numbers.

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Pluralistic Ignorance - The thing the Far Right vitally needs to enact it's agenda [View all] ck4829 Nov 2018 OP

Clever. Turbineguy Nov 2018 #1

I'd like to understand more WhiteTara Nov 2018 #2

Certainly. I posted this after Unite the Right before I knew what pluralistic ignorance was ck4829 Nov 2018 #4

Holy Fing Sh*tBalls! WhiteTara Nov 2018 #5

Selective Populism Thomas Hurt Nov 2018 #3

what's the RW version? Locrian Nov 2018 #6

"Security" as terrorism h2ebits Nov 2018 #7

Definitely. Good thing to add to it ck4829 Nov 2018 #8

Many of them are convinced that they have an invisible majority. paulkienitz Nov 2018 #9

One of the easiest ways to execute pluralistic ignorance is through religion. KY_EnviroGuy Nov 2018 #10