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On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 11:37:58 AM UTC-4, slider wrote:
### - this quite long article contains these next couple of particular paragraphs, something that imho spells things out quite nicely when it
comes to what the world often finds itself up against and always but
always ignores at its peril...
(full article here) https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/justice-for-j6-rally-capitol-dc-trump-jason-stanley-interview.html
(Q) What is the long game here?
The long game is the 2022 elections and the 2024 election. That’s what all these election laws are about. When you win the mainstream, you don’t need the rebel. They’re conquering the Republican Party and they’re slowly taking over the election system.
(Q) Not every Republican is completely in line with Trump. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney come to mind. Don’t they still have some sway in the party?
These authoritarian movements, they’re always purging people inside the party. The goal of fascism is the cult of the leader, to create this constant sense that the leader is in battles, the leader has been wronged, and so there’s enemies everywhere. So they’re turning on those who are not
sufficiently loyal within the Republican Party and purging them. That’s just how it works, because the goal is to create a cult of the leader. And this is about loyalty to Trump or loyalty to whatever authoritarian leader might take his place. The Republicans have openly decided to be an anti-democratic, far-right extremist party, with no loyalty to democracy. They see the writing on the wall that they’re going to be a minority party, and so they’re going to end democracy to seize power, and what you need to do that is this endless paranoia, which we see. Endless paranoia that the woke left are communist authoritarians, endless paranoia that you have enemies within.
(Q) What do you say to folks who might think this is alarmist? What are
you basing this on?
I’m basing it on history. Let’s remember, democracy is something that is very rare in human history and it’s not stable. Plato says about democracy in book eight of the Republic, “A leader will come, he will spread fear, he will gather supporters by telling them he’s the only one who can protect them from the internal enemy.” This is the way democracy falls. So in political philosophy dating back to Plato, democracy is susceptible to being taken over by a demagogic tyrant who creates blind, total loyalty in his supporters, using fear and a kind of sadism that Trumpists will call “owning the libs.” So Trump sells himself to his supporters by saying, “Look how much they hate me. Don’t you want to make them squirm by electing me?” It’s all about making them squirm. It’s not about having a
better country. And here, the history of fascism is helpful. It was about total war against enemy and it doesn’t matter what the consequences to the country are.
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and there ya have it... only 2 or 3 generations after the 'last' time it happened, people have almost completely forgotten the TROUBLE this KINDA shit ALWAYS leads to??
perforce there's societal + psychological reasons for it! one only having
to look at germany's history leading up to ww2 to grasp/see it, and as is described quite adequately in the above paragraphs...
i.e., 'fascism' is always a definite... no-no! - we KNOW that!
so then the only problem is in 'identifying' it whenever it rears its
hoary head ;)
They used to make rugs from Jewish peoples hair.
A lampshade made of Jewish skin was considered chic.
Now they make vaccines from murdered children's flesh.
Your the Nazi now Brian, your the Cult Leader now Brian.
No amount of finger pointing at others changes your Eternal Totality.
That is lost.
4. Jesus said, "The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a
little child seven days old about the place of life, and that
person will live. For many of the first will be last, and will become
a single one."
Why did your boyfriend hang himself?
Kashmir - Zeppelin
https://youtu.be/hW_WLxseq0o
Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
And stars fill my dream
I'm a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed
Talk in song from tongues of lilting grace
Sounds caress my ear
And not a word I heard could I relate
The story was quite clear
Oh, baby, I been blind
Oh, yeah, mama, there ain't no denyin'
Oh, ooh yes, I been blind
Mama, mama, ain't no denyin', no denyin'
All I see turns to brown
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand
As I scan this wasted land
Try to find, try to find the way I feel
Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like sorts inside a dream
Leave the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert stream
My shangri la beneath the summer moon
I will return again
As the dust that floats high in June
We're moving through Kashmir
Oh, father of the four winds fill my sails
Cross the sea of years
With no provision but an open face
Along the straits of fear
Oh, when I want, when I'm on my way, yeah
And my feet wear my fickle way to stay
Ooh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah yeah,
But I'm down oh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah
Yeah, but I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, oh, my baby
Let me take you there
Come on, oh let me take you there
Let me take you there
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